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:When powerful businesswomen like Tory Burch boldly state that female entrepreneurs are "crucial to economic growth around the world" in sources like [http://www.economist.com/news/21589133-investing-businesswomen-will-boost-economy-everyone-says-tory-burch-chief-executive-and The Economist], people tend to listen. The rise of women in entrepreneurship has been lauded as an "economic tailwind that will give a boost to twenty-first-century growth" by the [http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20reports%20and%20covers/2014/11/sources_of_economic_hope_womens_entrepreneurship.pdf Kauffman Foudnation] and has largely been supported as a major potential boost to the United States' and global economies. With all of this excitement surrounding the role of women in entrepreneurship, what do women who were founding CEOs, presidents, chief technology officers, or leading technologists of tech startups founded between 2002 and 2012 look like?:In a [http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20reports%20and%20covers/2014/11/sources_of_economic_hope_womens_entrepreneurship.pdf survey] of 350 individuals fitting the above description conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and Stanford University, some interesting results were uncovered. For starters, women entrepreneurs are highly educated with 56% having graduate degrees, and 38% percent having bachelor’s degrees. Compared with 33% of the [http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf total female population] possessing a bachelor’s degree and only 12% possessing a graduate degree, female entrepreneurs represent a highly educated slice.