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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Lucy Tobin

'Ask me anything': the entrepreneurial arena that's helping women-built businesses bloom

Every entrepreneur can reel off sombre statistics about the likeliness of a start-up failing, not least because their family and ex-colleagues probably frequently remind them of the odds. For women entrepreneurs, who secure just 3.5% of UK funding for start-ups, it’s even harder.

But that stat is being challenged by female founders of successful scale-ups who are sharing the secrets that helped them get over the early hurdles, via women-only entrepreneurial business networks.

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