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posted by CoolHand on Monday December 14 2015, @06:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the equality-for-all dept.

Wednesday Google hosted a special edition of their annual "Demo Day" event featuring 11 early-stage startup companies founded by women from eight different countries. More than 450 women from 40 different counties applied for a spot, and the winner of the competition was Bridgit, a fast-growing Canadian company which provides a mobile communications platform for construction teams. Online voters also awarded the "Game Changer" title to KiChing, a startup that's actively addressing Mexico's unique e-commerce challenges. But all of the startups at Wednesday's event were already actively raising series-A funding, and "We aim to help connect them to mentors, access to capital, and shine a spotlight on their efforts," said Mary Grove, the director of Google for Entrepreneurs, addressing the Demo Day audience in San Francisco.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 14 2015, @08:47PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 14 2015, @08:47PM (#276319) Journal

    A founder who can't talk fluently in his own company's jargon is a showpiece. Male or female. And, yes, I've met those creatures in male form before. The dipshit's parents had money, so he went to a good school where he partied for 4 to 8 years, and after graduation Daddy set the putz up in business. And the stupid shit couldn't get anything right. The prick is an embarrassment to be associated with.

    But, you go ahead and pretend that the woman who owns the company has some real purpose in being there, aside from having a pretty face when she goes soliciting funds.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:51PM (#276325)

    > A founder who can't talk fluently in his own company's jargon is a showpiece.

    It is revealing that you've moved the question from who has the best expertise to address technical questions to being able to speak jargon. Can't win on merits of your argument, so you change the argument.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 14 2015, @09:37PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 14 2015, @09:37PM (#276347) Journal

      Let's say that I'm an entrepreneur, and I go into the oil business. I can't tell you what a rig looks like, I can't tell you what grade of oil comes out of my well, I can't tell you anything about refining the oil, I can't tell you how I get my oil to market, I can't tell you the price of my oil at the market. I know diddly shit about oil. But, I'm a smooth talker, and I've talked a couple hundred (or thousand) people out of investment money. I approach you, to ask you for investment money, and I can't answer any questions about my business, aside from smooth reassurances that I plan to make money.

      Are you going to give me money?

      Now, try to follow this statement:

      If I can't answer any questions about my product, the process by which I create my product, the market that I'm selling to, are you going to trust me with thousands, or millions of dollars? Are you going to invest your life savings in a showpiece? The bubbleheaded piece of fluff?

      If so, you're a fool, and you'll soon be parted from your money.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @09:58PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @09:58PM (#276364)

        > Let's say that I'm an entrepreneur,

        Except you aren't. You don't have half a clue as to what's actually needed in real life versus your own contrived fantasies.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:29PM (#276408)

        Back in 1984 I was in my freshman year at a small college. One of the guys on the floor was a pretty unlikable guy. Didn't seem to do much but sit in his room and smoke. A good chunk of the way through first semester he's pulling about a 1.something GPA. We asked him what would happen if he flunks out and he says "My dad will buy me a company." That still floors me to this day. He didn't make it to sophomore year and I always hoped that his dad had more sense than to buy him a company until he showed any kind of aptitude first.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @11:50PM (#276417)

        > If I can't answer any questions about my product, the process by which I create my product,
        > the market that I'm selling to, are you going to trust me with thousands, or millions of dollars

        Yet again you move the goalposts.

        Two founders on stage, one of them spends significantly more time making a presentation and from that you conclude that they have no actual knowledge about their own business. You assume:

        1. That the handful of questions posed by 3rd parties are equally suited to both of their areas of expertise
        2. That the one who has just spent 10 minutes speaking does not want to share the limelight with their partner, that it is somehow wrong for a partnership to equally share in the labor and in face time.

         
        Instead, you go straight to an assumption of incompetence because that's what you want be true - it confirms all of your most primal beliefs as proven by your use of terms of like "bubblehead" and "trophy." So much easier to assume the worst about people whom you don't know and have never been in their place before.

        • (Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:18AM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:18AM (#276482) Journal

          What is it with you and goal posts? Did you run into them a lot when you were a kid? Are you related to Charlie Brown?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:26AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:26AM (#276484)

            Hey everybody, lookee here! Yet again runaway resorts to empty insults.

            That's how you say, "I was totally wrong, you were right but I don't have the strength of character to own my mistakes" in runaway-speak.

            • (Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:33AM

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:33AM (#276487) Journal

              Empty insults? How so? You're our favorite stalker, following me from conversation to conversation. Always whining about moving goal posts. I can only presume that you have had intimate relationships with goal posts, and frequently.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:41AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:41AM (#276506)

                > stalker

                You were the one who responded to my post. Narcissistic dumbass.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @05:56AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @05:56AM (#276539)

                  Look who's got butthurt and starts calling names.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:35AM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:35AM (#276548)

                    Which argument did runaway make that I ignored?