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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."
She's in marketing... Interesting how so many of the comments are about whether or not "female" belongs in the post. So now she's in marketing, and smart.
Only if the people who are talking about it are potential customers and users. No discussion on that yet!
Why 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.
Why 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…
my “day job” [...] is a co-owner of a marketing project management business
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She's in marketing... Interesting how so many of the comments are about whether or not "female" belongs in the post. So now she's in marketing, and smart.
"So now she's in marketing, and smart." Only if the people who are talking about it are potential customers and users. No discussion on that yet!
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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…
Maybe the article got changed, but the article I read says this: my “day job” [...] is a co-owner of a marketing project management business
Why 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-techn…
Why 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.
As google sees it: http://bit.ly/gZ2inI
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'"being a mom of twins and a wife. I doubt any man doing a startup can say something similar.' A bit hard given that men by definition can't be mothers and wives... Seriously though - there is certainly a sense where adding the 'female' into the description of the reality actually does get extra information across. The fact is that life balance is often more important to women and they do still tend to get lumped wit…
A bit hard given that men by definition can't be mothers and wives... They can still be parents and spouses, even if a different (gender-specific) term is used. However, men rarely do the full-time father thing and, from what I have seen around me, even when they are unemployed and financially dependent on their wife, they don't typically take over the housework and cooking to the point of doing it 40 to 60 hours per…
Maxing all those values, that's what, 22 hours? Where are the other 38 coming from?
ETA: I'm not being facetious here, I genuinely want to know what those hours are being spent on. When you have very young children, sure, but by 6/7 kids in my family are expected to start being self-sufficient (in the ways they can, such as picking up their toys, brushing their own teeth). By the time you hit 10, you've been doing some serious work around the house. I also got my first job at 14...
Why 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.
Why are people on HN so anal about how people identify themselves? If I introduce myself as "single beer-loving founder", why is that even an issue? If I view myself and wishes to identify myself in a certain way why can't we just accept that? Besides, this is a personal blog, can't people say what they want on their own blog? The worst part is now there is a whole section of this thread dedicated to this pointless c…