Nicole Glaros is managing director at TechStars, a startup accelerator based in Boulder, Colo. Before joining TechStars in 2008, she founded three successful companies and suffered a couple of failures. I asked her about the challenges of working in the male-dominated world of tech investing and what traits she brings to the approach that may be different from her male counterparts. Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.

Image: Nicole Glaros, managing director, Techstars