Usually it goes like this; The for the most part power brokers are invited to the tech event. Then the day of, an industrious PR chick, realizing that her own gender is way underrepresented, panics at the thought of “too many dicks on the conference floor” and calls up every woman she knows in the space, begging them to come.

For better or worse this is not the case at Techcrunch50, where women are vastly outnumbered (a big collective reader DUH). If you are a woman at these things you usually fall into one of two types: ballsy journalist or well-manicured PR rep. And you are probably a member of an organization called appropriately, “Girls In Tech.”

Which is why it came as no surprise to me, an L.A. native, when an industrious young start-up founder approached me last night with the hit-on line, “Didn’t I see you last week at “Girls In Tech” Palo Alto?”

You have to hand it to him for trying.
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