The document discusses four main barriers that block women entrepreneurs: risk adversity, time poverty, lack of funding, and self-imposed isolation. It provides solutions to each barrier, such as getting education to overcome risk adversity, redistributing workloads to overcome time poverty, and seeking various funding sources like bootstrapping, grants, investors, and crowd funding. It also recommends connecting with role models and other women entrepreneurs to defeat self-imposed isolation. Overall, the document aims to help women entrepreneurs overcome common barriers by providing strategies and resources.

1. Overcoming the
Four Barriers Blocking
Women Entrepreneurs
by Danielle Tate, Author and Entrepreneur

2. Hello!
I’m Danielle Tate.
I am an entrepreneur,
author, and most importantly
a problem solver.

3. The Good News: Women are starting
businesses 5 times faster than the
national average.
The Bad News: 70% women-owned
businesses have less than $25k in
annual revenue.

4. Why Women Should Think Bigger

5. Small is not always safe…

6. Business
beyond makeup
and jewelry…

7. Overcoming
Risk Adversity
& Time Poverty

8. Women vs. Risk

9. How do you
define success?

10. Solutions: Education,
Enabling Environments
& Role Models

11. What is time poverty?

12. Solutions: Innovation & Redistributing Workloads

13. Funding As A Female Founder

14. Let’s Talk Money Ladies

15. 1. Bootstrapping

16. 2. Friends & Family

17. 3. Grants
Female-Friendly Grants
• Huggies Brand: Mom Inspired Grant
• Tory Burch Foundation Grant
• The Eileen Fisher Woman-Owned Business Grant
• InnovateHER: Innovating for Women Business Challenge
• Wal-Mart Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative

18. 4. Investors

21. 5. Crowd Funding

23. Female-Friendly Investors
Angels
• Astia Angels
• Broadway Angels
• Golden Seeds
• Next Wave Ventures
• Pipeline Angels
• 37 Angels
Venture Capitalists
• Merian Venture
• Rivet Ventures

24. Funding Options Review
Bootstrapping • Friends / Family • Grants
Investor Funding • Crowd Funding

25. Sourcing Role Models
& Defeating
Self-Imposed Isolation

26. Solving the
Mentor Equation

28. Where can you
other women
entrepreneurs?

30. Read the Female Founder Blog & Women 2.0
for Stories on Women Entrepreneurs

31. Now that you know what
barriers exist, you can avoid
or scale them to become
successful women
entrepreneurs!

32. Resources
• Indiegogo
• KickStarter
• iFundWomen
• SCORE
• Ellevate
• She Owns It
• Meetup
• Dell Women’s
Entrepreneur Network
• National Association of
Women Business Owners
• Rising Tide Society
• Female Founder Blog
• Woman 2.0