Bootstrapping and rejecting the VC system

Bootstrapping your way to business success doesn't always get as much attention as a large capital raise. But it is an approach to building big businesses that many women are pursuing and generating significant wealth in the process.Entrepreneur Leela Cosgrove is rejecting the VC system altogether and thinks more women should do so, opting to build in more sustainable ways.Meanwhile, Renece Brewster is another entrepreneur who didn't actively seek to avoid the system altogether, but did bootstrap the business she co-founded, running it for over ten years and eventually achieving a successful exit.And Lucy Lin adds her voice to how suppliers and those making procurement decisions can better support women in business, and access a better and more diverse pool of products and services in the process.So while today's Episode of What We Could Solve does not technically offer solutions to closing the massive gender funding gap in private investment going to female founders, it does offer solutions to how more women can build successful businesses and contribute to this idea of What We Could Solve. This is Part 3 of the six-part series Women's Agenda is producing on solutions to closing the gender funding gap. You can find the two previous parts in the podcast feed.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.