Today’s Solutions: February 03, 2026

So you want to raise money for your company. What’s the next step? It might depend on your gender, if you can believe the latest crowdfunding report from Price Waterhouse Coopers. Their finance team analyzed 450,000 seed crowdfunding across several platforms over two years. While men get most of the small business financing elsewhere, when it comes to the open frontier of crowdfunding, women are indisputably platform bosses. Aoife Flood of PriceWaterHouse Coopers, a study

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