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Victoria Colligan, co-founder of Ladies Who Launch, stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing podcast to discuss, what else, women entrepreneurs.
Ladies Who Launch provides content and community to help women start and expand their businesses and creative ventures. Through their events, e-mail newsletter, website and in-person Incubator programs Ladies Who Launch provides a venue for motivated women to exchange products and services, ideas, and strategic relationships.
We discussed Ladies Who Launch events going now in over 45 communities, Victoria’s book - Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as a Lifestyle, and I gave my two cents on the differences between men and women in general and as entrepreneurs. (I’ve got four daughters so I just assume I’m qualified)
- Insights:
- Women are starting businesses a rate of twice that of men
- Women are attracted to business ownership for the lifestyle
- Women are more naturally suited to run a business than men
- Women are more creative than men when it comes to defining success
Ok, Victoria only said 3 of the 4! What’s you take on this list?
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1. That may be statistically correct, can you reference this?
2. I could be wrong, but aren’t men attracted to it for the same reason? If not what are they in it for?
3. Why? What is the logic to this?
4. I don’t understand. Does that mean that women define success in more diverse ideas? If so, how?
The only insight that seems logical is #1. I don’t mean to rain on the parade. I think the #3 insight rubbed me the wrong way; if I had reversed that sentence, women would be up in arms.
Robert,
With all these calls for logic you are playing right into this! - I’m just having some fun with this, no source data required.
1. Yes! I read that statistic somewhere and blogged about it a while back: http://www.cdwebmaker.com/blog/
2. Yes! I think we, as in women, juggle twice as much in the life/work arena as men. Running our own business gives us the freedom we need to pick up kids at school at 3:15.
3. Yes! We’re more flexible in our attitudes, our behaviors, more talented at coming up with creative solutions, etc.
4. Yes! For men, it’s ALL about the money. Women can get success from success itself. We just find more ways to define success.
Ok, you GUYS, flame away! I’m a woman, I can take it
Cindy,
To me success is the ability to spend more time with my wife doing very little. So maybe you still have some evolving to do in your man thinking.
John, if it’s in jest, it’s tough to pick up the tone. Sarcasm doesn’t travel well over the superhighway unfortunately. I honestly didn’t know that was your intent? Either you agree with the information you presented or you don’t. My guess is that you were deliberately doing this to create a argumentative forum and corresponding traffic.
So do you agree with what you wrote John? Or do you think it’s off base?
Cindy, good luck with those opinions. BTW when you say you blogged about something, use a permalink to the actual post.
Isn’t success and what we define as success down to the individual?
Geez, you folks are very nice! I expected much, much worse (I was trying to push a little, but yeah, sarcasm doesn’t come across well online).
In truth, I am not as narrow-minded as my comment. I do know many men in business who are better, smarter, more generous in their thinking and share the same idea of success as I do. I don’t believe in generalizations of gender or anything else for that matter.
Having said that, though, if you read <a href=”http://www.cdwebmaker.com/blog/blog_archive/2006_01_01_archive.html”>this post</a> (sorry, I was too lazy to look it up yesterday) especially the bit about my sisters’ attitudes, you’ll get a peek at our world. Really, do you think she would have said that to a man? And if she did, how would a man react to it?
As a woman, and a serial entrepreneur, I guess I can believe it! I just didn’t know it! I am definitely going to read that book, it looks very interesting! Thanks for the great information John!
Of course, I see the idea that women are more suited to running a business than men. BUT when a business gets into difficulties my experience is that men are much stronger to make the tough decisions. I have been involved in 5 businesses run by women and each time a business has run into difficulties the women prefer a man to take control and make the really tough decisions.
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