There’s no doubt about it: Women entrepreneurs face more obstacles than their male counterparts raising money, but some women are finding that crowdfunding is a way around those obstacles.

Stand Out In the Crowd: How Women (and Men) Benefit From Equity Crowdfunding, research I just completed, finds that the successes of pioneering women entrepreneurs show the way to financing that will work well for other women who are starting and growing companies.

When I started the research, I thought I would focus only on women entrepreneurs marketing their securities via crowdfunding platforms. But there were larger stories.

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