Story and photos courtesy of USAToday.com roundtable with female tech execs. The original post was from Jon Swartz, USATODAY.com. The interesting part is that 1) this story was written by a guy with an awareness that women are heavily involved in technology and start-ups– though not always on the engineering side of things but also that women are also discounted in the male-dominant world. HUGE mistake there and I know it as I get second-guessed in my work in social & digital media & marketing strategy– especially by men. Those that listen to what I say and pause before saying anything are clearly thinking through what it is I have said based on the merit of the commentary. It’s the ones that have closed their minds that I could possibly be correct in my suggestions, projections or theories that are quick to shut the door or ignore my comments entirely. Unfortunately so of those nay-sayers have been my partners. (Eventually those same people find out via a validation from other outside parties — male or female– that I was correct, then things actually start to move forward.)

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