"So many male VCs come to me and a lot of times, they say they’re trying to find balance. They end up giving advice that is less direct and less beneficial to the startup because they're fearful of the repercussions. It is both ways. We have to be able to establish an ecosystem where VCs are able to give the best feedback because it's going to benefit the founder and the company, and tech founders, regardless of gender, must make sure to not take the feedback personally. They should know that the person whom I asked for feedback is doing this to help them and that it is in their best interest." - Leanne Robers
"One of the things that we notice after collecting data from She Loves Tech entrepreneurs is that the majority of our founders say they’ll put their heads down and do good work, and concentrate on building product. Sometimes, with that on focus, while you are getting traction, a lot of traction in the early stages, you're also not spending that time building up relationships in the ecosystem that we realize are so necessary for you to be able to fundraise, and do collaborations and partnerships with different individuals. So the visibility of women tech founders really needs to increase. We really need to encourage our tech founders to network more. You have to be out there and be visible in the ecosystem." - Leanne Robers
"We saw how many entrepreneurs had these limiting beliefs about themselves and they were not pitching or being able to grow to the best of their abilities. Then, I thought about bringing psychology and entrepreneurship together. We started introducing the psychology of our founder courses to our entrepreneurs during our acceleration program and our boot camps way before mental health for founders was even a thing, and we realized how important it was for founders. We take so much of ourselves we put so much of ourselves into our startups. Everybody's hustling and pretty jovial and they appear happy, but when you dig deeper inside startup founders, it's a tough journey and sometimes they are not able to talk that much about that. We use a lot of neuroscience and psychology tools and resources to help them prevent burnout, and be their best possible selves." - Leanne Robers
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on She Loves Tech, founder-VC gender feedback dynamics, and entrepreneur psychology.
Keywords: She Loves Tech, Founder-VC Gender Feedback Dynamics, Entrepreneur Psychology, Singapore, Women, VC, Founder Story
