So, too, are many of those boys and girls on the other side of the fund-raising fence.
Solome has been on multiple sides of the funding table.
"The Babson Breakaway Challenge takes an innovative approach to the traditional business plan competition by providing a much-needed solution to both sides of the funding equation: exceptional women entrepreneurs with winning business ideas, and exceptional women venture capitalists able to fund them".
"On the side of the pension fund, you may have food-service workers on $35,000 a year, and they never get to do any of this kind of stuff," he said.
The PR/Comms side of the new fund is also crucial.
For many years, history was on the side of Bill Clinton, the fund-raiser.
Silicon Valley's leaders talk about the idyllic utopia that rests just on the other side of this funding round or new product release, and yet, when we look around our society at the number of challenges we face, the action seems completely absent.
The easiest way to reduce that fare expenditure is to look at the other side of the rail funding equation: the state.
Now, with defence budgets under pressure, there is little chance of governments on either side of the Atlantic funding projects on a grand scale.
The product is the culmination of four years of research on both the hardware and software side of the equation, funded by a wildly success Indiegogo campaign that netted the company $4.4 million (around 3,000-percent of its initial goal).
This is an unimaginable amount for a French candidate, for one important reason: on the other side of the Atlantic, the funding of presidential elections is strictly regulated.
