So the advice I have for any soon to graduate student is to really think hard about what you are good at.

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To do that, us women that want to do a tech startup, or any business, need to raise our hands, speak up, write about it, show what you are good at and passionate about.

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Find people who are good at what you want to do.

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What you can do as a shareholder is look at industries where mergers are occurring and evaluate if there are any good investment opportunities in them.

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You could call this ostrich-like behavior but Maneker astutely points out that this is what publishers are good at: moving huge volumes of books by authors that got royalty cash splashed all over them.

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