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These are all great action items and I completely agree.

One topic I've heard a lot is the fact that impostor syndrome is often stronger for women. This is impacts their willingness to apply for jobs that list certain qualifications, for example.

I wonder if there are ways to be more outspoken about how little we know as founders and how much we learn long the journey.

Many of the prevailing narratives flex "This is how to do it" more than "I used to have no idea how to do this"

But I agree what you outline is likely most meaningful: 1) Increase women representation in VC 2) Proactively look for women VC cap table participants

Thanks for these links. Really helpful.

Curious if you're seeing technology businesses leverage Zapier? For some reason I've always assumed that's for places without a real dev team.

I have seen cryptography on some webhooks, but after doing about 30+ integrations at my old company, most were very basic / no auth.

Maybe it's a standards thing. Perhaps if there were a standard for webhook format / security and then a lib to easily create / ingest.

Great comic! There are definitely ppl out there like this.

I have a rubric of sorts I use to rank people and ideas. This makes it very easy to avoid the dilbert scenario.

Some of these people are very advanced (have contracts / LOIs, MVP, funding)

Yes, as the previous responder mentioned, finding the right community is the first step.

But tbh, it's much harder than it feels like it should be.

I think places like Human Capital or OnDeck are taking a cool hands-on approach to this.

The thesis being, let's find the best people, help them find eachother, then invest.

I wish I did, but it's not my domain of focus.

I've heard good things about OnDeck, but I'm not sure how much biotech is there.