ESCAPE From Corporate America!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

News on Women Rocks!

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We've reported before about News on Women but wish to feature them again (in case you missed our first post ) because founder Alice Kra...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Women No Longer Stay Home and Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies

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By 2010, women will control 60% of wealth in the United States. According to Martha Keates, Senior Consultant, Marts & Lundy, by 2010, ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

About to Hatch a New Business?

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Are you a female entrepreneur about to hatch a new business? Then you pre-qualify for membership into StartupChicks: connecting and inspir...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Women Living Well

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The Partnership for Women's Mental Health presents "Women Living Well," a quarterly series dedicated to women's mental ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Create Your Own Job; Start a Business

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Can't find a job? Do what teens are doing: Create your own job; start a business! As published (an excerpt from the article " Cup...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Playboy CEO Escapes Corporate America

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In case you have been living in a cave, Christie Hefner (pictured) is ending her 20-year tenure as chief executive of Chicago’s (my home tow...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Could You Be The Next Chic Entrepreneur?

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Chic of the Week is founded by Elizabeth Gordon author of, "The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business in Higher Heels" as a way t...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Not a Feminist But Most Certainly An Entrepreneur

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She doesn't call herself a feminist but the former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured above) is now, at the young ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Glass Ceiling Sends More Women Into Business Ownership

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Small business is in for a big change and it involves women who are saying "yes" to entrepreneurship. As a group, the people who ...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

How To Start a Business in the Year of the Ox

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Just like there is never the perfect time to have a child, there's never an ideal moment to start a business either. You can spend you...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Women Entrepreneurs Never Become Sadder and Sicker At Midlife

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Do women entrepreneurs ever become sadder and sicker at midlife? Let me speak from experience: No. Because our choice is to create our ow...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Entrepreneurship Across the Generations

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Make Mine a Million $ Business (M3) conducted a survey to examine what makes women tick and to explore attitudes on business and personal i...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Little Puddle On the Floor

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Don't you adore stories like this? It makes you want to go out and start a business, no matter how risky or scary it feels. "There...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Recession-busting Women Entrepreneurs

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Research carried out by Continental on behalf of independent invoice financier Bibby Financial Services, showed that 79% of small business...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Imagination of Entrepreneurs

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Obama is right when he says that what our nation needs is the "imagination of our entrepreneurs." He understands that linking bol...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Opt-in To Entrepreneurship

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If you’re thinking about starting a business, don’t give up just because the economy looks bleak. That's what Jacalyn Barnes says over a...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Manage Your Time and Get Paid For Your Work

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One of the first lessons you learn when you become an entrepreneur is that you need customers to get started. Here are some useful tips and...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Introducing La-Z-Girl Furniture

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Wait until the corporate folks at La-Z-Boy find out about my new idea: To launch a line of furniture for hard working women (like us) call...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Will Barbie Ever Become An Entrepreneur?

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Since 1959, Barbie has held more than 108 jobs over the course of her 50 year career -- from Olympian to astronaut -- but has Barbie ever b...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

To Get More Out of Life, Sometimes You Have To Walk Away

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For Alison Greenberg who was 12 years into a successful career with a leading New Jersey law firm when starting out on her own, it was a sm...
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Laurel Delaney
Chicago, Illinois, United States
When I authored "Escape From Corporate America!" published by the Conference Board in 2003, I had no idea the reaction to it would be so profound and overwhelming. My inbox was flooded with email messages from gifted women who could not say enough about their dissatisfaction at work. Apparently, I underestimated just how fed up women are with Corporate America. EFCA offers a comprehensive look at why women are leaving BIG companies for entrepreneurship. Hint: They want freedom, flexibility, recognition, more money, and opportunities to leave a legacy -- all the things they once thought they would find within corporations. Are you ready to ... "Escape From Corporate America?"
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