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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:18AM (#276500)

    Wouldn't the GP be talking about presentation 9?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:51AM (#276509)

    You mean the one where the woman responded to one of the questions too?

    Ok, let's be charitable and give that one to him and see where it takes us. Lets be even more charitable and assume that it really was a case of hypocritical sexist manipulation rather than cooperation between partners - an assumption that wouldn't even occur to anyone if they were both the same gender.

    What meaning can you draw from that 1 case versus the other 8 where women did 100% of the talking and the 2 where they still did 100% of the presentation and 30-50% of the Q&A? Is there some sort of "one drop" rule where because a single example doesn't conform to archon's arbitrary and one-sided standard that makes the entire event a sham?

    Would that really be an intellectually honest conclusion? No. Of course not.