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Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC's have a Gender Problem

TechCrunch  • Feb 7, 2010

These groups flourish in Silicon Valley, and its diversity has undoubtedly provided it with great advantage. This dearth may be one of the reasons for which the Venture Capital community is in such sharp decline, and why the Valley isn't achieving even more success. An analysis of Dunn and Bradstreet data shows that of the 237,843 firms founded in 2004, only 19% had women as primary owners. And only 3% of tech firms and 1% of high-tech firms (as in Silicon Valley) were founded by women. Look at the executive teams of any of the Valley's tech firms - minus… Full Story »

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