Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
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Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
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Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#2I wrote an article about how my co-founder is pregnant and raising funding for our company, Sourcery. Investors are hesitant to bring up the issue in conversation for fear of coming off as an insensitive brute who questions a women's commitment to her company, but this is an important issue to address upfront. I try to lay out how we are preparing for this moment together.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#3I thought that money raising is for people who put all their effort into making a fast-growing company and need money to make the growth even faster. It's about choosing not having a life in return for the possibility for creating a big company.
I have no problem with that person being a male or female. But I can't imagine any person (mom or dad) being able to put 15 hours a day to a company with the baby after the baby is born. That's the first thing the article should deal with.
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#4Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances give up for working on your company?
Thanks to modern contraceptive methods getting pregnant is a choice. The same as doing a time-intense hobby. If you would not finance someone who openly says that he/she will not give up his/her time-intense hobby for the company, isn't this the same as not financing people who are pregnant?
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#5I wrote an article about how my co-founder is pregnant and raising funding for our company, Sourcery. Investors are hesitant to bring up the issue in conversation for fear of coming off as an insensitive brute who questions a women's commitment to her company, but this is an important issue to address upfront. I try to lay out how we are preparing for this moment together.
Do you bring up the pregnancy when you meet with investors? I wonder if that would help or hurt compared to not mentioning it at all.
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#6Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances give up for working on your company? Thanks to modern contraceptive methods getting pregnant is a choice. The same as doing a time-intense hobby. If you would not finance someone who openly says that he/she will not give up his/her time-intense hobby for the company, isn't this the same as not financing peopl…
What if the father will be the primary caregiver? Plenty of people will fundraise if their spouse has a time-intensive hobby.
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#7Any stress the mother suffers will be passed down to the baby...
"There are some data to show that higher chronic stressors in women and poor coping skills to deal with those stressors may be associated with lower birth weight and with delivering earlier," says Ann Borders, MD, MPH, MSc. She is an OB/GYN in the obstetrics and gynecology department, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, at Evanston Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem. (source http://www.webmd.com/baby/features/stress-marks)
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#8If you have the "balls" to fundraise despite the fact that it shows you're pregnant, isn't that a good sign?
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#9This is a great question. It forces the greater question: Can you "Be Dedicated" and be more than one thing. Silicon valley seems to believe:
You can't be a CEO and pregnant.
You can't be a lead programmer and old (> 30).
You can't love both Linux and Windows.
You can't be Democrat and vote for a Republican.
How did we become so decided.
Re: Can you fundraise in Silicon Valley while pregnant?
#10I thought that money raising is for people who put all their effort into making a fast-growing company and need money to make the growth even faster. It's about choosing not having a life in return for the possibility for creating a big company. I have no problem with that person being a male or female. But I can't imagine any person (mom or dad) being able to put 15 hours a day to a company with the baby after the b…
A man can conceal the fact of his expecting a child soon. A woman, usually, is unable to do so. Both will be affected by the child, but the investor may be more likely to favour the man, which is unfair.