Bold Women Big Ideas

When this book was written in the spring and summer of 2001, women had just begun to tap into the world of equity financing in the venture capital markets. However, it was also just months after Springboard’s first Venture Forum in January 2000, when the mighty technology surge of the late 1990s went into a free fall. Indeed, by 2001, the tech bubble had burst.

Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, had predicted the bursting of this bubble a few years earlier when he called ...