How High-Technology Female Entrepreneurs Perceive and Overcome Startup Challenges
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This research investigates the problems and challenges facing high-technology female entrepreneurs in Canada. After an extensive literature review on entrepreneurial challenges and means to overcome them, five Ottawa-based women technology entrepreneurs were interviewed to find out how they perceive these challenges. The findings show that they considered the most important challenges as the lack of technologically innovative business ideas, the lack of sufficient business network, and the lack of business and management skills. The study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by suggesting that these external challenges to female technology entrepreneurship are more essential than internal factors including family obligations, the lack of motivation, or the difficulty of overcoming previous bad experiences. The findings suggest that aspiring female technology entrepreneurs should partner with entrepreneurial support organizations such as ‘Lead to Win for Women’ and academic educational programs such as Carleton University’s TIM program to get better technological ideas and business advice
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Copyright © 2014 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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