[Alex3917]

Now that women can mostly route around the venture industry by doing crowdfunding, have the demographics of teams that raise money changed significantly? Already one of the biggest ICOs, Tezos, is run by a female entrepreneur, and so is the upcoming AI Gang ICO, but I don't know of any overall statistics.

I wonder to what extent, if any, these scandals are coming out now due to things like AngelList and ERC-20 being viable-ish funding options.

[api]

There's a meme around that if you crowdfund the VC industry will see this as "negative signaling" and blackball you.

I have wondered first of all if it's true. Good numbers are good numbers right? Is a VC going to pass on a great deal because they crowdfunded a prior round?

Secondly if it is true it seems self serving protectionism, like taxi companies trying to scare you away from Uber and Lyft.