{"id":1385,"date":"2016-01-16T09:04:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T01:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/16\/shark-tank-funds-fewer-women-than-men-with-less-money\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T01:04:47","slug":"shark-tank-funds-fewer-women-than-men-with-less-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/16\/shark-tank-funds-fewer-women-than-men-with-less-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Tank funds fewer women than men, with less money"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Ann Crady Weiss pitched her first start up \u2014 a social network known as Maya’s Mom that would allow mothers to seek advice and share their experiences \u2014 male investors weren’t exactly enamored with the idea.<\/p>\n

“There were many investors I spoke to who said moms don\u2019t have time for social networks,” Weiss told Mashable.<\/em> Weiss would, of course, prove those investors wrong: Maya’s Mom would raise $1 million in angel funding<\/a> in 2006 before being acquired by a division of mega baby brand Johnson & Johnson a year later.<\/a><\/p>\n

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See also: Chris Sacca: ‘As a culture, we don’t treat our girls as potential business leaders’<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When Ann Crady Weiss pitched her first start up \u2014 a social network known as Maya’s Mom that would allow mothers to seek advice and share their experiences \u2014 male investors weren’t exactly enamored with the idea. “There were many … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,1050,731,1048,1049],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-ceos","tag-startups","tag-venture-capital","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}