How to Remove Unconscious Biases From Your Pitch Process

The confidence gap is a misnomer because generally speaking men tend to be extremely self confident and overestimate their own abilities. So when you ask someone to talk about themselves, you will generally find men are more likely to describe themselves in glowing terms and women are. A couple firms in Silicon Valley one out of Canada originally which has really been looking at funding companies based solely on the numbers just saying fill in this questionnaire will look at the numbers and will fund you. And those companies have generally funded about 30% women entrepreneurs.