Know Your Value

Women are building businesses at remarkable rates. Women entrepreneurs now account for nearly half – 49% – of all new businesses, a 69% increase from 2019 to 2024. But new research from HSBC, in partnership with Know Your Value, shows that even as women build with confidence, they face a unique set of financial challenges. 

Know Your Value and HSBC discuss those challenges at their third "Women and Wealth" event in New York City.  Women are on the rise. Check it out.

Investing in Women Entrepreneurs Isn't Charity

Stamford has long been a place willing to embrace new ideas and bring people together to make them work. I know firsthand how powerful that can be.

Nearly 30 years ago, Fran Pastore was searching for a different path. After years of commuting to New York City, she wanted more time with her two daughters and began exploring the idea of starting her own business. 

Discover how she went from a 'kitchen cabinet" group of people to co-founding the Women's Business Development Council (WBDC) in Connecticut.

Elevating Jewish Women Entrepreneurs Since 2010

The Jewish Women Entrepreneurs (JWE) is a nonprofit community that supports Jewish women entrepreneurs with education, networking, and resources to grow sustainable and values-driven businesses.

JWE has been empowering and elevating Jewish women entrepreneurs and executives since 2010.  They believe ambitious Jewish women can build extraordinary businesses and careers while staying true to their families and communities.

Learn, connect and lead: JWE.  And "Shanah Tovah U'Metukah."

Gloria Steinem: A Model for Women Entrepreneurs

Gloria Steinem was an entrepreneur – just not the Silicon Valley kind.

She didn’t raise venture capital or chase billion-dollar exits. She created something far more powerful. As an entrepreneur of social change, she built media, philanthropic institutions, and movements to disrupt a culture and economy that historically benefited men. Her work transformed media and the lives of generations of women.

“I became aware I could no longer just write about something. I also had to act on it,” Steinem said.

Her conviction to turn her frustration with a world that fought to hold women back from their careers is what made Steinem a model for women entrepreneurs.