Jules Pieri
Jules works for a very successful advertising platform. She
takes products that she thinks will be big in the future, and puts them on her
platform. She has advertised things like fitbit, soda stream, and many many
more big brands that we all know of today, and gives these little companies the
jump-start they need to become well known in the real world.
Jules spoke towards the benefits of business school, and
although at the time she went to school it was geared more towards the
corporate route for business, it helped her in many ways. One of the ways was
that it expander her sense of possibility, and what she could personally do and
accomplish on her own. We then spoke more in depth on whether business school
helps your network, or if it just introduces you to people who don’t have
enough experience to be beneficial to a startup. Jules responded with saying
that people her age (around 55) aren’t represented as much in startups, so she
doesn’t have as many resources. But she said that 25% of venture capitalists
went to Harvard Business School, which is a huge jump on financial and advocacy
resources.
Jules believes that the most difficult aspects of being an
entrepreneur are: being able to deal with ambiguity and anxiety. As for the
ambiguity, it’s not making something better or coming in with a list each day,
it is creativity every day. Coming in and being ready to make stuff up and
shape your path is a difficult thing to do. For the anxiety aspect, the fear of
dying, performance pressure, and having your friends and family think you’re
crazy causes huge stress and anxiety about having your company be successful.
The other difficult thing was fighting the facts, only 2.7 of entrepreneurs are
women, and defying almost definite odds is a struggle in itself.
Thank you for taking the time to let me interview you,
Jules!
posted by Linz Glass @ 3:55 PM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Did you get any sense of why so few women are entrepreneurs? That seems like a crucial question. Is there something about the entrepreneurial life style that makes it harder for women to enter it? Are VCs and other sources less likely to give money to women? are business schools actively discouraging women from going into entrepreneurship? are established male entrepreneurs not welcoming to women?
What's your sense of why the number of female entrepreneurs is so low?
Turns out I was incorrect about what that low number represented. 47% of businesses are owned by women, but only 2.7% of venture capital gets to women, making entrepreneurship very difficult for these females in the business world.
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