I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
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Re: I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
#2Please link to your startup (in this case, Swayable) at first mention in the first paragraph! Name is mentioned but not until the third paragraph is there a link to http://www.swayable.com.
Re: I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
#3Why even bring the 'female' bit into it? It means nothing, unless you think it's a handicap... And then it is, but only because you think it is.
As for finding a co-founder... You expect to do that without giving up equity? What would be in it for them? I'm not surprised you haven't found anyone.
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#4Why even bring the 'female' bit into it? It means nothing, unless you think it's a handicap... And then it is, but only because you think it is. As for finding a co-founder... You expect to do that without giving up equity? What would be in it for them? I'm not surprised you haven't found anyone.
Presumably because you'd probably skip right past the link if it was just titled "I am a Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road."
Re: I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
#5Why even bring the 'female' bit into it? It means nothing, unless you think it's a handicap... And then it is, but only because you think it is. As for finding a co-founder... You expect to do that without giving up equity? What would be in it for them? I'm not surprised you haven't found anyone.
I think that, frankly, it probably is a handicap whether she thinks it is or not. There are going to be folks who write off the female single founder where they wouldn't a male single founder. It's worth recognizing that there is a barrier, and the fact that we don't see it is the single biggest reason that it isn't going anywhere.
On the other hand, I agree with you that the dominating factor is the single non-technical founder problem. I'm unclear about how this really differentiates from wannabe clients who have a fabulous idea for a start up: "and will you please build the whole thing for 1% of net?"
Re: I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
#6Why even bring the 'female' bit into it? It means nothing, unless you think it's a handicap... And then it is, but only because you think it is. As for finding a co-founder... You expect to do that without giving up equity? What would be in it for them? I'm not surprised you haven't found anyone.
Her "day job" is "being a mom of twins and a wife". I doubt any man doing a startup can say something similar. She doesn't really talk much about how that impacts her work but there is substantial evidence that raising kids and running the household routinely interfere with female career ambitions but usually don't interfere with male career ambitions. So perhaps it is relevant (to her challenges with trying to do a startup), even if she hasn't made it clear why.
Just a thought.
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#7I've seen quite a few similar concepts out there, but I think your functional but cool domain name is one that I would easily remember over the rest. I really don't get why startups go for some obscure fabricated name linked to some deep Latin or Greek ethos instead of a more functional engaging name.
Re: I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
#8I would strongly urge you to reconsider your approach and get a technical cofounder.
I've seen countless startups founded by nontechnical people outsourcing everything stumble because crucial technical and architecture decisions were made poorly in the beginning.
Outsourcing development seems almost orthogonal to the principles of building a startup-iterating fast, making do with limited resources, etc.
I've done consulting before for some startups that outsourced all development, and although they were run by brilliant business people, everything moved at an incredibly languid pace.Even something as simple as pasting analytics code into their site took several emails to their development team in India and hours of waiting.
And, although I don't know about this from experience, I would assume that lacking a technical founder will severely reduce your chances of getting funded.
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#9Why even bring the 'female' bit into it? It means nothing, unless you think it's a handicap... And then it is, but only because you think it is. As for finding a co-founder... You expect to do that without giving up equity? What would be in it for them? I'm not surprised you haven't found anyone.
Her "day job" is "being a mom of twins and a wife". I doubt any man doing a startup can say something similar. She doesn't really talk much about how that impacts her work but there is substantial evidence that raising kids and running the household routinely interfere with female career ambitions but usually don't interfere with male career ambitions. So perhaps it is relevant (to her challenges with trying to do a…
but what does that have to do with her gender? That was her choice (Well I assume a decision between her and her partner?) and it happens with Men too.
Re: I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road
#10Why even bring the 'female' bit into it? It means nothing, unless you think it's a handicap... And then it is, but only because you think it is. As for finding a co-founder... You expect to do that without giving up equity? What would be in it for them? I'm not surprised you haven't found anyone.
I read that as she's unwilling to give equity to "...someone I met at an event for 2 days..." not that she's unwilling to give any out. If she's unwilling to give any out then I agree.