ESCAPE From Corporate America!
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Be Your Own Boss

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Oftentimes there are mixed messages sent about women starting businesses.  It varies from how they struggle, to what they lack and why it...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

How Do You Achieve Success?

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©2013 Laurel Delaney.  All rights reserved. On achieving success, it can be through hard work, luck, talent or all of those things.  In ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

100 Best Sites for Women

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Forbes has published its fourth annual list: The 100 Best Websites for Women, 2013 From Forbes:  As is always the method to our madnes...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

To Bootstrap or Not to Bootstrap?

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To bootstrap or not to bootstrap?  It is the difference between slowly gaining ground in growing a business versus giving up equity and ra...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Women Lead the Way in Startups

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Stamford, Connecticut Why are women leading the way in startups, at least in Stamford, Connecticut? ... studies show that women are st...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Alison Gutterman Goes Interactive With Her Products

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Alison Gutterman, President, Jelmar Introduced 46 years ago by Skokie-based Jelmar , Tarn-X, the metal tarnish cleaner, is the top brand...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Believe in Your Dreams

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To women everywhere ... "Believe in dreams, your dreams for yourself. Your dreams to be who you want to be, to touch the sky, to ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

A Crowdfunding Site Exclusively For Women?

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Crowdfunding website exclusively for mom and women entrepreneurs Nap Time Startups , announced its beta launch, which is scheduled to begi...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Lack of Confidence? Fear of Failure?

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Is that what's holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur or starting a business - a lack of confidence and a fear of failure?  ...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Hardest Part of Growing Fast?

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When you're running a fast-growing business, what's the hardest part about it?  Best-selling author Jim Collins has written about...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Live the Life You Want: Start a Business

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Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Jean Chatzky talks with Victoria Colligan, co-founder of Ladies Who Launch about her c...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Start a Project. Make It Your Business.

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Seattle-based nonprofit Landesa launched the Security for Girls Through Land Project (Girls Project), which leverages land and land ri...
Saturday, July 06, 2013

What It Takes To Become a Real Woman Entrepreneur

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Thursday, July 04, 2013

Happy Birthday No. 237 to the United States and No. 9 to the Official Escape From Corporate America Blog!

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Happy 9th Birthday to the official Escape From Corporate America blog and Happy 237th Birthday America!  Enjoy the day and thank you all...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Sometimes the Best Ideas Are the Most Basic

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At 17, Kavita Shukla (pictured) got a patent for FreshPaper, a sheet of paper infused with a secret blend of organic spices that prohibit...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Women Entrepreneurs Are the Future of Business

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Sara Blakely, Founder, Spanx Forget leaning in.  And when you are an entrepreneur, who cares about working in the corporate world?  It...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Bad Girl Entrepreneurs?

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Is there such a thing as bad girl entrepreneurs?  There is Cincinnati-based nonprofit Bad Girls Ventures (BGV) -- that's close enough...
Saturday, June 08, 2013

How to Turn Your Passion Into a Business

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Meet Eleonora Carisi .  Model.  Contributor to the popular Italian fashion website Grazia.it   Founder of JouJouVilleroy.com , which insid...
Saturday, June 01, 2013

Chuckle of the Day: Why God is an Entrepreneur

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Delightful post authored by Bob Marovich over at the Black Gospel Blog entitled, " Why God is an Entrepreneur. "  Point of the s...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Technology Is a Key Growth Driver

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According to small business research from Dell and Intel, start-ups and small businesses in the United States are focused on growth, prima...
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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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