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Let’s keep talking about venture funding for women

You could say that selling your startup is a little bit like having a baby: a long, occasionally painful process, followed by sudden exhilaration and a whole new chapter in your life.

But before you go speculating, you might want to ask Jennifer Zeszut, a CEO who delivered her baby boy, Henry, one day and closed the deal to sell her startup the next.

"I actually chose my delivery room — I had two choices — based on which had the stronger Internet signal," says Zeszut, who in May sold Scout Labs to Lithium Technologies for what she said was between $20 million and $25 million. "It was deal negotiations up to the last second."

It’s a great story that both Henry and Zeszut will no doubt be telling for the rest of their lives. But it’s also a vivid illustration of something we all need to keep talking about: When an entrepreneur is seriously driven, he or she will do whatever it takes to get past the obstacles standing in the way of success. Man or woman. Doesn’t matter.

By Mike Cassidy

Mercury News Columnist

Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_16095331?nclick_check=1

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