Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups

Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by patio11 on Monday September 06, 2010 @11:08PM (#1667903)

To the limited extent I agree with the critique, it seems exploiting it is a better resolution than writing about it. I tend to think the tech industry disproportionately ignores female customers, for example. That means writing for them is like shaking a money tree.

If one really believes there is a vast untapped well of ladies who want to code XML files for poor wages for 14 hours a day, identifying and hiring them yourself sounds like a sure fire path to millions.

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Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by petercooper on Monday September 06, 2010 @11:24PM (#1667927)

I tend to think the tech industry disproportionately ignores female customers, for example.

You won't believe the number of times I've heard Ben Affleck's "don't pitch the bitch" line from The Boiler Room presented as a serious maxim of doing business.

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Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by patio11 on Monday September 06, 2010 @11:49PM (#1667974)

That line, which I've never heard before, richly earns a bozo bit. [Edit: This idiom means "marks the speaker as an intellectually and/or morally unserious person who is not worth effort to speak to."]

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Re:Ambient Un-Belonging: Women and Tech Startups by petercooper on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @01:49PM (#1669520)

Ah, it was a popular movie among young guys about ten years back. Actually pretty good and worth watching - it's all about young dudes learning high pressure sales techniques to sell junk stocks.

The "don't pitch the bitch" rule was because women supposedly thought more aboit potential investments and couldn't be coerced into taking risks over the phone. So, in a way, it was more insulting to mens' level of judgment ;-)

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