An alarming number of women have recently come forward with sexual allegations against reputable VCs in Silicon Valley. I published this video on Youtube to describe my own experiences raising funding in Silicon Valley for my fashion startup and the sexism I personally experienced during the process. T he shocking thing is that I had started to internalize the inappropriate treatment I received and wondered if there was something I was doing that led males to not take me seriously. I often wondered if I came across as ditzy and unintelligent - perhaps it was my own fault that people felt it was okay to make a pass at me during a business meeting or graze my thigh suggestively. I started to forget that I was an articulate, ambitious, smart woman with a degree in Neuroscience from Stanford (and it is even difficult for me to write this very sentence because a small part of me still wonders if I'm a fraud). I feel as though my credentials need to be excavated from layers of...