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Saturday, July 05, 2025
Young, Gifted and Black
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Founder and Celebrity Hair Stylist Jen Atkin’s Brand Eyes Expansion
The Los Angeles-based company Ouai didn’t become a household name in its own right until around 2019 when the team made a gamble on a novel means of distribution. Ouai sampled one million units of its leave-in conditioner in FabFitFun subscription boxes. It was the company’s biggest sampling program ever.
Find out what happened. It's better than you think.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Women Entrepreneurs Are Incredibly Resilient
McLoghlin knows just how hard entrepreneurship can be. She launched her Los Angeles-based company in 2009 after declaring personal bankruptcy during the Great Recession and spent the next decade fighting to turn it into a success, which she did.
Now her goal is to make more successful women entrepreneurs. Read about her story, Tory Burch's, Tiffany Dufu's, and Nancy Twine's here.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Grants, Loans, and Programs to Benefit Your Small Business
Here are more than 100 grants, loans, and programs to benefit your small business.
Sunday, June 08, 2025
Teens Are Open to Pursuing Entrepreneurship
Many of the young entrepreneurs below fall into that camp and have continued on their path of success in the years that followed, thanks to great ideas, unwavering determination, and support and guidance from the right mentors.
Archika Dogra, Grace Leger and Caitie Sfingi are among them.
The stories of these young business owners are a reminder that entrepreneurship isn’t about waiting for the perfect moment. It’s about starting where you are, learning as you go, and staying open to feedback, mentors, and change.
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Fasting Growing Group of Entrepreneurs: Black Woman-Owned Businesses
According to the Brookings Institution, between 2017 and 2020, the number of Black women-owned small businesses increased by nearly 20%, far exceeding the growth of women-owned businesses and Black-owned businesses overall.
In this interview, Jean Chatzky is joined by Tiffany Dufu, President of the Tory Burch Foundation and author of Drop the Ball: Achieving More By Doing Less. Tiffany shares the best ways to support Black women-owned businesses right now.
Saturday, May 24, 2025
This Female Entrepreneur's Got It: From a Background in Engineering to a Multi-Million Dollar Apparel Business
Audrey wanted to reinvent the button-up shirt for women using unbelievable menswear fabrics.
Visit Frank & Eileen. The name? Audrey's grandparents, Frank and Eileen. "They were married in Ireland in 1947, and they lived a beautiful, romantic, old-fashioned life — I don't know if they would describe it that way, but they lived in a little stone cottage, never owned a car, just had a really charming life," says Audrey.
Audrey goes on to say, "The world would be a completely different place if at least 50% of the entrepreneurs and business owners out there were women. We'd live in a very different place."