Roundtable Recap: October 31 – Book Launch – Feminine Feminism

Today’s roundtable started with the launch of my new book, Feminine Feminism.

I read the opening chapter titled ‘Talented Women: Please Do NOT Quit’ for our audience. Here’s how that chapter begins…

Five years ago, a good friend of mine hanged herself.

I had coffee with her the day before.

She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. She did not work. But on the surface, they had everything.

I knew both of them well. It was a deeply disturbing incident that shook us all up.

Five years have passed. I have observed society around us closely. And today, I am writing this with a certain amount of lingering sadness.

One of the greatest defeats of the feminist movement in America has been the phenomenon that women in the thirties are quitting the workforce in large numbers. Many of them are highly educated, and just as they acquire sufficient experience to take on more substantial roles, the body clock sets off an alarm.

Time to have babies.

Women are programmed to want to have children. There is no point in denying or defying biology. Whatever it is that the feminists want women to do, asking them not to have children isn’t something that will gain any traction.

Then, we moved on to the regular entrepreneur presentations.

PandaPay
First up, Carl Petrou from London, England, pitched PandaPay, a mobile app for paying for restaurant bills. The app has a few competitors who have a little bit of traction. I have concerns about the competitive landscape, including potentially large companies entering the space. What if Square starts offering this service?

CabCrazy
Next, Rahul Shingi from Pune, India, pitched CabCrazy, a portal for consumers in Pune to book cabs from cab dealers. Rahul has launched the service with a dozen major cab companies, and has started generating a bit of revenue. Now, he needs to learn customer acquisition.

Prodsy
Last up, Shirly Cohen Fenster from Israel, pitched Prodsy, a lower-priced competitor to ServiceNow, an IT management suite of products. The company needs a much more refined positioning to be able to compete with at least major competitor, and many smaller ones.

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