It appears to me that women face special challenges in networking and this leads to challenges in problem solving for a fledgling business. I came to HN to network and, until very recently it was a major fail for me. It is gradually getting better, but it's taken a lot of work on my end to get it better.

I am not talking about "women need to be liked." I am talking about "Women need to be able to access knowledge that is currently overwhelmingly held by men." If they can't effectively do that, they are going to tend to have lower success rates.