ESCAPE From Corporate America!
Saturday, August 27, 2016

What Leads to Success in Starting a Business?

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Is the following what you are thinking?  When I started my business, it's what I thought. Many people start a business thinking they...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Entrepreneurship Can Be a Lonely Endeavor

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Entrepreneurship can be a grueling and solitary journey.  Ask some of the women who attended a recent conference hosted by Amazon in Seatt...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Top 5 Cities That Cultivate Women Entrepreneurs

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The top five cities considered the best to be a female entrepreneur: New York San Francisco Bay area London Stockholm Singapore. T...
Saturday, August 06, 2016

Women Entrepreneurs Get a Confidence Boost

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Is the glass half full for women entrepreneurs when it comes to growing our businesses?  We certainly hope so.  Yet, for our male counterp...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

How to Get Finance Ready

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Women are also nearly twice as likely as men to rely on family members to fund their new businesses, and young men age 18 to 24 are about...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Entrepreneur Ivanka Trump

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Ivanka Trump owns her own company.  More importantly, she wore a dress from her own label to introduce her father at the Republican Natio...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

It's Still a Man's World in the Aftermarket Automotive Industry

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Come on ... research shows that more diverse companies are more profitable.  So what gives when it comes to the old boy's network in t...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Are You a Chicago Woman?

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Chicago Woman is a magazine and media brand that speaks directly to professional women who live, work and play in Chicago. They tell the ...
Sunday, July 03, 2016

Best Beach Reads to Build Your Business

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I am not a big beach reader but I love to squirrel away in my home and knock down a business book or two each week.  Everyone has to find ...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Fake It Till You Make It

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It's hard to believe that women the world over running successful businesses still struggle to be taken seriously.  One woman business...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Leading Reasons Why Men and Women Go Bankrupt

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What a sensitive topic.  Who likes to talk about insolvency whether personal or professional?  Best to sweep it under a carpet and move on...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Young Women Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Job Creation Charge

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According to a new survey, EY Global Job Creation Survey 2016 , released this week, women are creating more jobs and hiring more workers t...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

How Women Entrepreneurs Fare on Business Ownership in Kansas City

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How well are Kansas City women entrepreneurs actually doing in comparison to their male counterparts on business ownership? And how does K...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Become a WEGG Warrior

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For those of you who currently export or desire to, Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (WEGG) , a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization offers month...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Repurposing Valuable Content to Grow Your Business

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Dequiana Jackson  (pictured), CEO of Inspired Marketing, Inc. , shows you how to repurpose a simple one-hour teleseminar into twelve other...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

How Opening a Business Can Be Surreal

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According to the Center for American Progress , black women comprise 13 percent of the female population in the United States.  Between 19...
Saturday, May 07, 2016

Tips On Landing Government Contracts

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Gloria Larkin (pictured) is president of marketing consulting company TargetGov and author of The Basic Guide to Government Contracting ...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Project Entrepreneur: Increasing the Number of Female-led High-Growth Companies

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UBS has launched a philanthropic program called Elevating Entrepreneurs . The initiative serves under-resourced, high-potential companies...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Oh, No Let's Go!

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Our tribute to the late Prince .  Beginning lyrics to his song, " Let's Go Crazy :" "Dearly beloved We are gather...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

The Sunny Realities of What It Is Like at the Top

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At the  recent Women’s Entrepreneur Festival, a couple hundred businesswomen came together to share their best-kept work secrets. The gro...
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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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