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But that still means that 80% to 85% of venture capital dollars are going to all-male teams. All male founding teams. So there's a lot of room there for improving the way the venture capital world sees opportunity with female entrepreneurs and funds opportunity with female entrepreneurs. I would like to spend more of my time with female entrepreneurs, and I do.

But that still means that 80% to 85% of venture capital dollars are going to all-male teams. All male founding teams. So there's a lot of room there for improving the way the venture capital world sees opportunity with female entrepreneurs and funds opportunity with female entrepreneurs. I would like to spend more of my time with female entrepreneurs, and I do.

At Booth, I spent more of my time with male entrepreneurs simply because the population of Booth is more male than it is female. Now I can choose. I can spend more of my time with female entrepreneurs than male entrepreneurs. By the way, guys, if you're listening, I have lots of male clients. I do not turn down male clients, but I can make myself available to women, men.

At Booth, I spent more of my time with male entrepreneurs simply because the population of Booth is more male than it is female. Now I can choose. I can spend more of my time with female entrepreneurs than male entrepreneurs. By the way, guys, if you're listening, I have lots of male clients. I do not turn down male clients, but I can make myself available to women, men.

Minorities, minority entrepreneurs, people of color, people from rural areas, people who come from less affluent backgrounds. These are all people who struggle more in the process of building relationships. Businesses that require outside funding. I would like Wiseheart to serve more of those kinds of entrepreneurs.

Minorities, minority entrepreneurs, people of color, people from rural areas, people who come from less affluent backgrounds. These are all people who struggle more in the process of building relationships. Businesses that require outside funding. I would like Wiseheart to serve more of those kinds of entrepreneurs.

So I am talking with venture funds that focus on women entrepreneurs, that focus on people of color. I am working with... one of the biggest entrepreneurship, not-for-profit organizations supporting LGBTQ plus entrepreneurs. I want, in Wiseheart, to be able to dedicate my time to the people who don't always have access to someone like me.

So I am talking with venture funds that focus on women entrepreneurs, that focus on people of color. I am working with... one of the biggest entrepreneurship, not-for-profit organizations supporting LGBTQ plus entrepreneurs. I want, in Wiseheart, to be able to dedicate my time to the people who don't always have access to someone like me.

If I teach again, it will likely be at a community college where those people are unlikely to ever experience a professor like me. I want Wiseheart to be part of Renumerative and part giving back. And that's the goal of Wiseheart. And by the way, my tagline is tough love for entrepreneurs. So I'm not pulling my punches here.

If I teach again, it will likely be at a community college where those people are unlikely to ever experience a professor like me. I want Wiseheart to be part of Renumerative and part giving back. And that's the goal of Wiseheart. And by the way, my tagline is tough love for entrepreneurs. So I'm not pulling my punches here.

I'm giving the same kind of coaching to the entrepreneurs that I work with as an independent that I always did to you and your colleagues at Boots.

I'm giving the same kind of coaching to the entrepreneurs that I work with as an independent that I always did to you and your colleagues at Boots.

Yes. In fact, I just accepted a speaking engagement to talk a little bit about funding. LGBTQ entrepreneurs in today's world with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity. They're doing an event for Pride Month. I am hoping to work with StartOut to refresh the report that we did in 2016 on the state of LGBTQ entrepreneurship in the US because I think that data is now almost 10 years old.

Yes. In fact, I just accepted a speaking engagement to talk a little bit about funding. LGBTQ entrepreneurs in today's world with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity. They're doing an event for Pride Month. I am hoping to work with StartOut to refresh the report that we did in 2016 on the state of LGBTQ entrepreneurship in the US because I think that data is now almost 10 years old.

And one of the biggest challenges in thinking about the availability of resources to LGBTQ entrepreneurs is that nobody collects the data. That's something where you have to self-identify. You don't find it in the census.

And one of the biggest challenges in thinking about the availability of resources to LGBTQ entrepreneurs is that nobody collects the data. That's something where you have to self-identify. You don't find it in the census.

You can't use AI to screen for names that indicate being a member of the LGBTQ community the way you do for gender research or even BIPOC research where you can triangulate and create a data set that is likely to be made up of people with non-Caucasian heritage. You can't do that. This is a community that has to self-identify.

You can't use AI to screen for names that indicate being a member of the LGBTQ community the way you do for gender research or even BIPOC research where you can triangulate and create a data set that is likely to be made up of people with non-Caucasian heritage. You can't do that. This is a community that has to self-identify.

So you can't say to venture capitalists, how many LGBTQ entrepreneurs do you have in among your portfolio companies? Because they say, how would we know? Unless that entrepreneur has had a direct conversation with them, unless they have self-identified with their investor. It's very difficult to get data.

So you can't say to venture capitalists, how many LGBTQ entrepreneurs do you have in among your portfolio companies? Because they say, how would we know? Unless that entrepreneur has had a direct conversation with them, unless they have self-identified with their investor. It's very difficult to get data.