
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.