Fixing Faxes... a teaser

A teaser of our first podcast, Fixing Faxes. We'll be launching in a week or two, so subscribe to this feed to get the first episode when it is published.

Show Notes:

We have come up with a name since recording this teaser. Our show is called Fixing Faxes, which will make more sense after the first episode, we promise.

Fact check: In this episode Angela mentions adverse statistics regarding female tech founders and age, stating 'there is a lot of statistics showing that tech founders are typically under the age of 35'. We wanted to make sure this wasn't a flippant remark, and the statistics support what she said:

Paul Graham from Y Combinator once quipped “The cutoff in investors’ heads is 32,” Graham says. “After 32, they start to be a little skeptical.” A UK study found that the average age of founders to be 34 years old, who received >30M in funding. While venture capital does not typically favour older founders, there is some evidence contrary to what Angela said; the Harvard Business Review found that founders average age is 42 with 45 being the age of the most successful founders.

On the note of being a female founder; according to the Silicon Valley Bank only 1 in 4 start-ups have at least 1 female founder, when there is a female founder then there is a 50% likelihood there is a female CEO but for the other 75% of startups it is only a likelihood of 5% there will be a female CEO. Forbes noted "In 2018, just 20.3% of all deals and 17.9% of funding went to companies with at least one female founder. So far this year, 88.8% of all venture capital deals have gone to companies with a male CEO."

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Angela Hapke - twitter: @angelahapke - https://www.clinnect.ca

Jonathan Bowers - twitter: @thejonotron - https://www.twostoryrobot.com

Credits

Produced and Hosted by Jonathan Bowers and Angela Hapke

Music by Andrew Codeman (CC BY 3.0)

Transcript

Jonathan: [00:00:00] We still don't have a name. That's fine. We should, we should come up with a name though. We can record that in later, but

Angela: [00:00:07] Don't you think people like authors who write books, they don't start with a name.

Jonathan: [00:00:11] No, you don't say, "oh, here's 'Pride and Prejudice' that's a great name,

now what should I write about?"

Angela: [00:00:20] We don't know what this is called yet.

Jonathan: [00:00:22] We'll think about that.

Hi, my name is Jonathan Bowers. I am a software developer and entrepreneur based in Kamloops, and I'm helping Angela launch a healthcare startup.

Angela: [00:00:32] I'm Angela Hapke. I am the CEO of Central Referral Solutions, the company that is launching a digital health startup product by the name of Clinnect

Jonathan: [00:00:44] So what is t