Woohoo: Women doing the startup thing (Java too)

Venture Capitalist Rick Segal has an interesting post today about recent conversations with entrepreneurs. Some of the evidence points are quite surprising, not least that around quarter of his recent pitches have been from women company founders. It would be interesting if Rick could give us a sense for how different that is from the norm. I read recently that some women didn’t want to play ‘the VC game” – I am certainly glad some are. Another data point of note-when it comes to systems company startups Rick is seeing a 60/40 split favouring Java over .NET oriented firms (not bad for a “dead” environment). One final point to note-VCs refuse to sign NDAs… industry analysts could surely learn from that, but then we don’t have quite the leverage VCs do 😉