International Women's Day 2015 presentation argued that women-led ventures are significantly underfunded compared to male counterparts, receiving only 6% of venture capital and 4% of SBA loans. If women were financed similarly to men, an estimated 6 million new jobs could be created in the next 5 years. However, rather than trying to "fix" women, the presentation advocated developing new models, mindsets and solutions that leverage crowdfunding, social media, and the sharing economy to better fund and support women entrepreneurs.

1. International Women’s Day
Ottawa, Ontario
2015

2. Start business x2 men
Are more capital efficient
Get to profitability/revenue faster
Outperform S&P ++

3. Significantly under-financed
6% venture capital
4% SBA loans

4. $750B in N.Am.
corporate procurement
<1% goes to women-led ventures

5. Data.

6. Why?

7. Value?

8. Boldness.
24/7
Go Big or Go Home

9. Speculation Economy is
50x bigger
than the value-creation economy

10. 1% owns 50%
85 people => 3.5B people

11. Women run business like our
household
We buy what we can afford

12. If women were financed to the same
degree as their male counterparts
we’d create SIX million jobs in the
next 5 years

13. Fix women?

14. New Models. New Mindset.
New Solutions.

15. Crowdfunding 4x
Social Media
Collaboration/Sharing Economy

16. Activate1B
1M women, $1K
October 2015
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