Tech Boss Lady: How to Start-up, Disrupt, and Thrive as a Female Founder

by Adriana Gascoigne

The founder of Girls in Tech offers first-hand accounts of the realities of startup life, with the very best advice from top women entrepreneurs

The facts are these: Only 6% of VC firms have female partners, and even when pitches are identical, an all-male startup team is 40% more likely to get funded than a team with even one woman in a leadership position. So what's a woman with a new venture idea to do?

In Tech Boss Lady, Girls in Tech founder Adriana Gascoigne distills everything she's learned via her own experiences and those of her high powered friends into one easy to use guidebook for any woman looking to launch a startup or crack into tech. Gascoigne calls on her global network of fellow female entrepreneurs to tell their extraordinary stories and pass along their wisdom. She tackles topics such as: failure, pitching, confidence, branding, loneliness, innovation, harassment, intrapreneurship, partners and everything else a soon-to-be Boss Lady needs to know. And Gascoigne does it with a casual, easy to read voice that gives readers the sense that they're being guided through these tough topics with a very smart and well connected friend.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

228 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2019

About the author

Author of Tech Boss Lady, Adriana Gascoigne is an American technology executive, activist, founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a global non-profit dedicated to empowering, educating, and mentoring women in the technology industry.

Reviews

[Emily Gardner · Rating 2 out of 5]

yes the title is somewhat cringe i know- this wasn’t really very earth shattering but i will always be a woman supporting another woman- and i suppose since i haven’t read any books on a similar topic by a man this was likely a much more relatable and fun read than those. i think the most useful part was the part about pitch decks and (in my mind) how they can be applied to more than just startups (ie job apps)

[MSG · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this for a book club but otherwise might have never picked it up because (1) the title made me roll my eyes, (2) I have no desire to found a startup. But, I do respect the work Adriana has done through Girls in Tech.

That being said, this book wasn’t bad. There are definitely some nuggets in there and I appreciated that the author was able to pull in a diverse set of stories and experiences from other founders.

[Shreya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finny, riveting, enlightening. It was an amazing, amazing read. I highly recommend it to men and women looking for what true power looks like and how to attain it. I flew through this book and am still using lessons from it. Loved it.

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had some interesting behind the scenes from CEO and Silicon Valley world but I think it could have been shorter. Either way, I enjoyed reading. It was a quick and fun read!