Ever since then, I’ve felt a deep seated desire to help women realize their worth.” “I became enraptured with the movie 'Miss Representation' when I was 16 years old, about how women are presented in the media. “There’s nothing more important to me than helping women to bring their own big ideas to life because I saw how it radically changed my life, and helped me construct my own narrative about my place in the world,” Smith, 21, told Red Alert Politics. Haley Hoffman Smith, a recent graduate of Brown University and self-proclaimed “serial-entrepreneur,” is doing her part by empowering other women through the intersection of women's empowerment, nonprofits, and entrepreneurship. This has not gone unnoticed by women in the industry and there’s a growing movement to make business more female-friendly. Even less, only 3 percent of all venture capital is going to female-led companies. However, this is not the case and shockingly only 17 percent of startups have a female founder. As more women are attending and graduating college than men, one could only assume that the same be said for women-led companies.
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