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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by ingenuous2 on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:36PM (#14674787)
What if the choice were "no investment or attention" versus "creepy attention and small investment"?

Entrepreneurs are so willing to sacrifice, and this should not be the situation, but what if it is? How many of us males would accept these types of advances in order to get our idea funded?

To think that we can remove power from sex is misguided. There were times during my startup that I would have wished for the attention, even as a straight male, if only because it was better than the nothingness that my idea lived in otherwise.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by ethanwillis on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:47AM (#14675766)
I personally wouldn't want unwanted sexual advances to get money for a startup.
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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by Smaug123 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:38AM (#14676086)
Though of course this is explicitly a personal preference.
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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by rorykoehler on Saturday July 01, 2017 @01:28AM (#14675545)
Grass is always greener on the other side...
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