The future (of startups) is female
Hillary Clinton proclaimed this week that the future is female, despite all the challenges women face. Leaning in too is a Singaporean woman who has set out to overturn the gender status quo in the startup world.
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IT isn't every day that you meet a person who intrigues you. Last Sunday, I did - while thumbing through my work e-mail on the go and stumbling on a note from a Christina Teo, founder of Startup Asia Women (SAW), a support group for women in the startup community.
In the e-mail, Ms Teo introduced herself as a tech veteran - having taken on corporate roles at Acer, IBM, DEC, 3COM - and the first general manager of Yahoo! Singapore. She had just returned to Singapore to care for her aged mother, after working abroad for the last 27 years.
And home, interestingly, is where she discovered startups, and an ecosystem that welcomed them. She told me over coffee the next day: "I was pleasantly greeted by an ecosystem perhaps unique to Singapore, which has made starting up very possible and feasible."
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