Female Founders, Are You Ready To Build A High-Growth Business?

This chapter is an extract from Female Founders’ Playbook by Anne Boden ©2024 and is reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd.Are you ready to build a high-growth business? Rates of entrepreneurialism fall sharply among women after the age of 35, which means children must be a consideration for many potential female founders. Another concern is how the ecosystem around high-growth businesses views female founders who start families while scaling. Once female founders feel they have the right idea, they can do themselves some favours by pausing to validate that they are personally ready. If you consider all of this and still have a burning desire to build a high-growth business, that’s great news.