Thursday, July 28, 2005

Do women find it hard to start their own e-business?

One of the things that I got asked lately is do more women find it hard to start their own e-business. I find that quite hard to answer. However, what I noticed though is that more men tend to succeed in this area.

As for the problems, when I was still starting back in 1998, I had a hard time on the following areas:

1. Finding IT savvy suppliers who can provide me electronic copy of the product photos and product descriptions.

2. Finding an affordable payment gateway to accept international payments online.

3. I find delivery, especially international deliveries, to be too expensive.

Today the same problems are existent but not as hard as before.

1 comment:

Janette Toral said...

Hello John. Thank you for the sharing. In Manila, MyUSMailbox.com is also doing the same as UPS. I agree with you that gender has nothing to do with it. However, it is still a reality in the country that there are few women taking the plunge in e-business start-up compared to their male counterparts.