This is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared on Forbes. You can read the piece in its entirety here.

It’s no secret in the startup community that while women are launching businesses like gangbusters, the number of those businesses that have reached the $1 million revenue mark has stagnated at just 2%. But while we’ve been living with this depressing statistic for more than a decade now, a deep dive into Census data by Womenable and American Express Open has finally unearthed a silver lining. Read more

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