I hate to step into sort of a gendered pitfall,
我雖然不想涉及性別方面的問題
but what advice do you have for female cofounders as they pursuing funding?
不過,對于女性創業者進行融資,您有什么建議嗎?
Female cofounders when you're pursuing funding,
女性創業者進行融資
well it probably is true that women have a harder time raising money, right?
的確,女性創業者進行融資更困難
I've noticed this in empirically, and,
我深有體會
Jessica is just about to publish a bunch of interviews with female founders.
Jessica打算發布一系列女性創業者訪談
And a lot of them said that they thought they had a hard time, a harder time raising money too.
其中很多人說她們融資更困難
So, what I would, you remember I said, like the way to raise money?
還記得我說過的融資方法吧?
Make your startup actually do well.
讓公司發展好!
Well, that's just especially true in that case.
在融資時尤其重要
If have any, if you, if you miss the ideal target from the VC's point of view in any respect,
如果從風險投資人角度考慮,你們尚有欠缺
the way to solve that problem is make the startup do really well.
解決辦法就是讓公司發展好
So in fact, there was a point like a year or two ago
有這么一件事,一兩年前
when I tweeted this growth graph of this company and I didn't say who they were.
我把一家公司的業績增長圖發到了Twitter上,我并沒有說明是哪家公司的
But I knew it would start people asking and it was actually a female founded startup
我早就知道網友們會問的,其實是一家女性創業的公司
that was having trouble raising money but their growth graphs were stupendous.
她家公司融資有困難,但是業績增長很快
And so I tweeted it, knowing that, like, all these VC's would start asking me who is that, right?
我就發到了Twitter上,果不其然,有風險投資人問我,那個圖是哪家公司的?
And, like, growth graphs have no gender, right?
業績增長圖不分男女
So if they see the growth graph first, let them fall in love with that.
讓投資人看看業績增長圖,用業績增長圖來說話
Right? So do well, which is good advice for startups generally. Yes?
把公司發展好,這是實用的建議