How a 4-week test can produce more female startup founders

GUEST: CrunchBase data on US funded startups shows that in 2014, only 18 percent – about 1 in 5 – had at least one female founder. It’s a gain over 2009, when that number was only 9.5 percent – but there is still a lot of room for improvement.
I know this firsthand. I was one of 30 female founders in a batch of 300 founders earlier this year at Y Combinator. And I’m frequently asked, “Why aren’t there more female startup founders?”
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