Being a Woman In the Tech Industry - Esther Dyson October 1, 2010

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Angel investor Esther Dyson comments on TechCrunch senior editor Michael Arrington's recent article entitled, "Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Blaming the Men." Dyson acknowledges both benefits and drawbacks to being a woman in the technology industry, stating "If you [are] good and you're female, you get noticed," she says.

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Esther Dyson is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the U.S. and other markets, including Russia.

Since selling her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, Dyson has taken on newer challenges in private aviation and space as well as in health care (as a director of 23andMe, a consumer genetics company). Her IT investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!), and Medstory (sold to Microsoft), as well as Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe and Voxiva. She sits on the boards of the latter four companies. - BizTechDay