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By Betsy Mikel (Editor, Women 2.0)
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In Inc.’s “Female Co-Founders: 7 Ways to Become the Boss,” we learned about a new study (appropriately titled “Who’s the Boss?”) that found in companies founded by mixed-sex teams, men are twice as likely to become the boss of the company as women.
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On Medium, Cindy Hoang published “What It’s Like to Be a Girl Who Codes.” We found this excerpt especially compelling: “Being a girl is no excuse. It does not mean that if you want to be stronger, you can’t be. It does not mean that if you want to be smarter, you can’t be. Women have more power than they think. Yet the discouragement of society and lack of confidence dissuades them from going after their dreams and reaching their full potential.”
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Last week, we mentioned the lack of females (like, at all) in HBO’s new show Silicon Valley. This week, in “You know what’s more sexist than Silicon Valley? Its HBO version,” Lauren Bacon expanded on that point and even presented five potential roles women could play in the show.
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In “How I Overcame the Challenges of Being a Female Entrepreneur,” Dana Loberg shares a few lessons she learned as a founder whose startup managed to raise a significant amount of angel money.
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In the news: LearnVest — the online service that helps people learn how to manage their money — just raised another $28 million, which brings their total funding to more than $72 million. Founder and CEO Alexa von Tobel also recently released her book “Financially Fearless.”
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In case you missed it: Alyssa Henry, the former Vice President of Amazon Web Services Storage Services, is joining Square as Engineering Lead. Rumored to file for IPO later this year, Square has bolstered their leadership team with other executive from Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Apple and Tesla.
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One of our favorite Women 2.0 posts this week: What I Learned as a Female Startup CEO (Hint: It Sucks and is Awesome at the Same Time). In a post that originally appeared on Medium, Yunha Kim discusses 3 reasons why it sucks to be a female founder and CEO — and 3 reasons why it’s awesome.