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But my passion is to help entrepreneurs who have really great business concepts and really great business capabilities bring their products and services to market in the best way possible. I also want Wiseheart to be more accessible to entrepreneurs for whom the rest of the ecosystem is less accessible. So let's talk for a minute about women entrepreneurs. There's a big...

But my passion is to help entrepreneurs who have really great business concepts and really great business capabilities bring their products and services to market in the best way possible. I also want Wiseheart to be more accessible to entrepreneurs for whom the rest of the ecosystem is less accessible. So let's talk for a minute about women entrepreneurs. There's a big...

statistic that everybody likes to use that women entrepreneurs get two percent of bc dollars and that's a little bit misleading because the truth of the matter is that women only teams of entrepreneurs get two percent of venture capital dollars mixed gendered teams get another anywhere from depending on the year 13 to 8 to 18 percent of venture capital dollars but that

statistic that everybody likes to use that women entrepreneurs get two percent of bc dollars and that's a little bit misleading because the truth of the matter is that women only teams of entrepreneurs get two percent of venture capital dollars mixed gendered teams get another anywhere from depending on the year 13 to 8 to 18 percent of venture capital dollars 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.

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 everywhere.

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 everywhere.

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... start out 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... start out 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.