VOA常速英语:Bypassing Venture Capital, Female-Led Startups Look to Cryptocurrency for Funding

In the tech startup world, there’s no shortage of venture capital money for the next big idea that is if it comes from a man, women often get shortchanged.
在科技创业界，好想法从来不怕没人投资，但仅限于男人。如果那个主意来自女人的话，她们得到的投资经常都是缩手缩脚的。

The venture capital landscape is dominated by 94% men which makes it objectively harder for women and minorities to fund-raise for many different reasons including gender biased.
风投的格局百分之九十四都是男性掌控，这使得女性和少数群体因遭受如性别偏见等原因而难以筹集到资金。

Now female entrepreneurs are starting to explore alternative sources of funding and their sights are set on the biggest and buzziest phenomena in tech and finance: cryptocurrencies and blockchain.The value proposition of blockchain has to do with disintermediation and really what that means is cutting out the middlemen or cutting out, you know, rent seekers in applications.
在的女企业家也开始探索其他的资金来源，他们的目光放在了最大也是最近最活跃的科技金融现象的身上：加密货币和区块链。区块链的提出的目的和非中介有关，意思就是说，在实际应用中它不再需要中间商和寻租的参与。

Cutting out the middleman also carries over to fund-raising ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings,allow founders to raise money by issuing a digital token or coin specific to their blockchain business.
省略了中间商这个环节使交易转入ICO，也就是数字货币首次公开募资，创建人便能够通过发行数字代币或特定的货币为她们的区块链交易筹集资金。

There’s no legacy of like male domination and blocked him because there’s no legacy and so why not,like, do this, get involved, like, build something.
这就没有比如说被男性地位操控的后遗症，因为你不需要担心有任何影响，所以为什么不呢，为什么不去试一把，参与其中来创建一些东西呢。

Michelle McCormack created Casting Coin, a digital currency that she plans to use for her crowdsourcing platform connecting models and brands.Going beyond that small community of VCs and people who usually kind of controlled the means of capital there,you can see this open world where women are free to go out and to prove themselves.
Michelle McCormack创造了“铸币”，是一种她计划用她的众包平台来连接模特和品牌的数字货币。超越了这个小小的虚拟社区和掌控了大多的风投资金的人的国界，你就会看到，在一个开放的世界里，女性能够做她们想做的事从而证明自己。

But it’s still early days for the technology.I think what we’re seeing is a lot of influx into just fast money into various ICOs but I wouldn’t call it success right off the bat because we want to understand the longevity of these types of fund-rasing processes.For these ambitious women, long-term success means being a part of today’s conversations.
但这项技术还处于初期阶段。我认为我们看到的只是涌入的大量的快钱再进到各种各样的ICO中，但我不会不假思索地就称它为成功。因为我们想要了解这种类型的筹资方式的寿命。对于这些雄心勃勃的女性来说，长远的成功才意味着成为今天的佳话。101

Tina Trinh, VOA News, New York.
美国之音，Tina Trinh纽约报道。