Where Are All the Kickass Women in Entrepreneurship?

When I tell people about this blog, they inevitabley know someone that they’d like to refer to me, which I take to be proof of how fantastically entrepreneurial we Americans (or young people? or Silicon Valley-ites?) are.

Nine times out of ten, that someone is a guy.

Granted, these guys have great stories, and diverse too, so I’d never want to turn them away. But, where are all the kickass women in entrepreneurship?

Carla Bruni, one of my fav un-PC, kickass woman artist-entrepreneurs.

To clarify starting a home business selling Mary Kay is NOT entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is defined by risk-taking, unsensible fearlessness, and constant renewal.

Women, I’ve noted, are exceptionally risk-averse. They succeed in school because school rewards excellence in rule-following. They plateau in jobs because the work-world doles out the biggest rewards for calculated, but fearless, risk-taking.

I could go on about the dearth of women in grad schools, spending lots of money for a fancy hideout from the storms of worklife, or the number of women in their twenties who are still living off of their parents, or how many Ivy-educated girls are looking earnestly for a rich man to marry. But, that’s for another post.

For now, I just want to find awesome, kickass ladies who will make me shake in my boots, so I can tell their stories on this blog.

By the way, this is a challenge.

Bring it!