Women Entrepreneurship in Technology & Pakistan
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Pakistan is growing desperately in essence of education, moral, tech, summary and general abilities. Education has played an important role by plucking out extra ordinary minds, polishing them in specialized fields and preparing to lead the next generation.
Since the last decade, Pakistan prepared great professionals and entrepreneurs in the field of technology, specifically in Information Technology. At the moment, all of those professionals are either founding organizations in Pakistan or overseas, respectively. Perhaps, it supported in growth, but also brought new jobs, better market, competition and next level of lifestyle.
Women, who have been underestimated at all of the platform, have played a massive role in the development of Pakistan and taking it to the next step. Though, I was Entrepreneur and communicated with dozens of new people almost every day, but the great part is to find that women are picking up the front desk now. Once, I had to hire virtual team of almost 15 developers (small team) and not promoted the idea to pick a single woman even. The idea behind was just to prevent extra concise particles that usually raise when you hire a woman in Pakistan. The problem resides for a business when a female demands to have similar or equal count of female workers working in the organization and, at the end of the day, it puts a liability over the business to overlook the better potential resources. The same tactics had passively sloped females for a long time, but now the time is changed. Nowadays, the women are feeling it more comfortable working in any environment rather than being determined. And as a resultare now a better team player.
Though, I'd face some criticism about my conservative notion, but fact of the matter is Pakistan still lacks the best women professionals. Usually, woman has less level of maturity which plucks in leave anything in the middle. To prove myself wrong, I took a female professional onboard who was previously (and now currently) Software Developer, to become an entrepreneur and build the entire organization around the
technology product idea, which was initially evaluated as $12 million. Perhaps, it's not possible for a normal woman to come onboard and play a cardinal role and it could only be possible if they have a spirit. Though, the result could be expected. The idea revolved for almost year long doing nothing workable while idea ate significant amount of investment. Initially, technology team had been hired who failed to deliver the expected results and later, when a matter had been resulted to let the CTO (that female) do the job, we reached for nothing, nothing! It wasted a lot of my time, money, spirit and the idea completely. Now, if anyone could bring the argument about methodology, then I'd like to clear that we were practicing DRY, KISS, XP and Kanban. The idea was clear enough and had a mutual dilemma to represent the innovation.
Now, if you speak about another try with say, "Could you do that"? Fair deal! I picked up another idea from my basket which had the potential of solid traction and generating money in just few months. This time, I sat with the developer personally and involved in digging my hands in dirt of engineering. No wonder, results were the same and finally, she left all that in the middle.
What I learnt by investing my time, money, spirit, ideas, effort and support isnot everyone is borne entrepreneur and not all the women in Pakistan has a capability to play a vital role. But in the meantime, I just met one of the female entrepreneur who founded her startup with the resource count of two, few months back and now, she's running a small organization of almost a dozen. Conspiratorially, this women entrepreneur had vanished my previous worse experience and proven that Pakistan is still moving to the next step. It's just about choosing the wrong people for the right piece of job. I'm optimist and believe in everyone to take the job out of them. If we take an example of most of the organizations in Pakistan, then we will reach the conclusion that mostly all of them are representing women in their businesses. Perhaps, they are mostly in Human Resource, Administration or more off a Quality Assurance, but there is
still a count who has significant number of female workers in their technology / engineering teams.
To be an entrepreneur means you're far enough into the play to put your personal influence at your home and pick the mutual benefit of the business. Generally, women are little towards materialism which extremely puts them one stairs back into the success rate in entrepreneurship. The success marquee is based upon how much you're feudal about the success of the business and not for yourself. Pakistani women are riskaverse which makes them shorten their career and then go the better material any time. Being riskaverse could never make you a great potentiallystable entrepreneur, professional and goal oriented.
In the race of success in entrepreneurship between men and womenthough the answer is clear that men led the way. I won't mind intimating that 99.399.7% of the businesses and ideas in technology are backed by males respectively. The low rate is just because there is a least count of female entrepreneurs. There is now proper education towards entrepreneurship in Pakistan which could surely take women to the better step, but still there is a very least amount of willingness in them.
There is a very popular axiom about the 'Stanfordians' (people who had been to Stanford University) that they don't pick the job, they make the job. Perhaps, they are absolutely right in the matter and if we make a survey through startup portals like AngelList , dilemma would be proven that they are making jobs, successfully!
Pakistan has the population of almost 200 million that is far greater than Germany, Sweden, Israel and the UK, while 0.75% competitive to the United States of America. However, what could put Pakistan in the race is "Women's Entrepreneurship". The Silicon Valley has great number of success stories of women who made it through. Israel has Silicon Wadi that is desperately trying to compete the growing entrepreneurial
cities of the United States of America. On the other hand, Germany is preparing Berlin while Sweden is willing for Gothenburg to put into the race. What's so common in ignite of the race that they all are bouncing with women's entrepreneurship in technology.
Someone asked the Venture Capitalist: "Why there are still few women in hitech companies and startups?". He replied "Women don't ask for the money. Women undersell themselves. Men dream big and propose businesses in the largest markets; women think much smaller". Indeed, the statement is quite true because most of the women are interested in starting a family when it's time to lead the way through. So, I guess it supports my idea of materialism and the women.
Usually, women prefer to pick a job of big salary with fringe benefits instead of taking a risk and go for tech startup. There are ideas, potential and capacity to execute new ideas into the local markets all the time, but what lands them to have a 95 jobs, six figures salary and a new car, maybe?
As if reaching out a conclusion, I suppose that women in Pakistan has to come in front because they seriously have a great potential. If they could do great by taking six digits salary a month for someone, they could be also found themselves into entrepreneurship, resulting in more success of themselves and the country. Success is vital and I believe, let's start running behind the success instead of material
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