Cherie Blair’s Secret To A Good Funding Pitch For Women Entrepreneurs

Cherie Blair’s Secret To A Good Funding Pitch For Women Entrepreneurs
The silhouettes of attendees are seen as they speak outside a conference room. (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Confidence is key for women entrepreneurs. Both in themselves, and the product or services they are pitching, said Cherie Blair, founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.

“You've got to believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself and what you're doing, how can you possibly convince anyone else?” Blair told BloombergQuint on the sidelines of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 in Hyderabad.

“Merely 27 percent of women over 15 years of age are engaged actively in the economy. Moreover, 57 percent of women do not join the workforce after their graduation,” she said.

India is losing out with a majority of its women left out of the workforce and the economy, Blair said.

“Many of the entrepreneurs we've worked with have told me that their parents wanted them to work in more stable government type jobs. Some of them had not told their parents that they had given up these jobs in order to start as an entrepreneur until their businesses were up and running,” she said.

Watch the full interview here.

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