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Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs (thenewstack.io)

Posted by timothy on from the life's-rich-pageant dept.

An anonymous reader writes: 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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  1. Quotas by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's always been clear why women aren't competitive with men at the 100-meter dash, but it's not clear why women aren't competitive with men at professional poker.

    1. Re:Quotas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "Some of us are able to recognize the extreme advantages"

      Like the men only demo days, men only networking events, men only scholarships, men only mentor setup programs, men only coding programs and so on. I think what you mean to write was: "Some of us are able to recognize the extreme advantages that women get".

  2. Cool by Joe.Neebler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So now that women have their own safe space we can expect some amazing innovation to follow. But if we don't, I wonder what the next excuse will be?

  3. Re:Discrimination is discrimination by quantaman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go tell a women she has to pull a few all-nighter because the product need to be shipped Sunday evening...

    I know several female devs.

    They've been just as likely to stay late or come in on weekends as anyone else.

    Now they didn't have kids so maybe that would change if they get children, but for the childless twenty-somethings, they're just as dedicated as the guys.

    --
    I stole this Sig
  4. Re:Discrimination is discrimination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The majority of Slashdotters are, to put it simply, against discrimination. If there was discrimination against women as blatant as the discrimination against men in this story, I assure you, it would be condemned just as strongly.

    Essentially, there are three groups, with different beliefs:

    A: Discrimination against women is more acceptable than discrimination against men.
    B: Discrimination against men and women are equally unacceptable.
    C: Discrimination against men is more acceptable than discrimination against women.

    Groups A and C are sexist. The majority of Slashdotters are in group B. You, and a substantial minority, are in group C. No one is in group A.

  5. More sexual discrimination by K.+S.+Van+Horn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More special privileges for women -- as if they didn't have enough already -- and more discrimination against men. I'm getting really, really tired of this, especially when I see my son excluded from one educational opportunity after another solely because of his sex.