My team at Stanford and Lesa Mitchell of Kauffman Foundation surveyed 500 women entrepreneurs to learn what motivates them and why they took the leap into entrepreneurship.

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On the whole, women make up 10 percent of the founders of high-growth tech companies but manage to raise 70 percent less money than men because they cannot access capital, according to Lesa Mitchell, a department vice president at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as reported in the New York Times in June, 2012.

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