Jennifer Hyman

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.

I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Our goal is to teach young women who were brought up on H&M and Forever 21 that designer clothes are expensive for a reason. They're works of art.