The creation of this list is evidence that women are not accepted into entrepreneurial enterprises as well as men are yet. There shouldn't need to be a list of female founders to single them out.
What about a list of the successes of people with brown hair?<p>Also, this could be a case study in how overuse of exclamation points makes them meaningless.
I'd rather see more efforts to bring women into the top of the startup funnel, vs. singling them out later on if they become successful.<p>There is some value in having good examples of successful women in entrepreneurship in convincing more women that they should consider it, but I think "this person in my graduate department launched a startup" is probably more significant (regardless of gender) than "a famous woman startup founder and CEO exits, although I've never met her".<p>women 2.0 actually does a pretty good job with other programs to try to bring qualified women into the startup world (partnership with Founder Institute, various meetups, etc.). I think the most valuable thing would be attracting more women into college entrepreneurship clubs, entrepreneurial classes in undergraduate and MBA programs, and in non-startups, encouraging them to take responsibility to project/product management on products which may become spinouts or startups.
Sexism exists so long as people keep tallies -- same with racism. They have new life breathed into them whenever anyone interposes the racial and gender lens between themselves and all they observe. Sigh. Here's to another year of counting (and then of course judging) based on race and gender. Ah, such progress.