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Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech

When I first met Jessica Mah, I wasn’t sure what to think.

Here she was, a 17-year-old girl schmoozing at a TechCrunch gathering a few years ago, talking about startups and the Web. She mentioned a successful Web-hosting service she started at age 13 back home in New York. Not long after we met, sponsors of the Next Web Conference in Europe flew her out to address the confab — a teenage symbol of The Future.

Clearly she was precocious. I just wasn’t sure if Jessica Mah was for real.

"I wasn’t sure myself," she told me the other day with a small grin. "In fact, I’m still not."

Actually, Mah has never been more credible. At 20, no longer blessed or burdened with the "teen prodigy" label, she bears the bona fides of a computer science degree from UC Berkeley and funding from Y Combinator, the much-admired startup incubator in Mountain View. She is co-founder and CEO of inDinero, a Web-based money-management service for small business that has attracted more than 2,000 users since the site debuted July 2.

By Scott Duke Harris

Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_15517047?nclick_check=1

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