ESCAPE From Corporate America!
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Is There a Secret to Becoming an Entrepreneur?

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Two women entrepreneurs share their stories and secrets to becoming successful business owners. One believes customer service is the key a...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Bias Impacts Whether Women Entrepreneurs Get Funding

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Swedish researchers observing government venture capitalists over a year found that they described female and male investors quite differe...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Deals in Heels

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Tennis star and entrepreneur Venus Williams is set to star in her own TV/entertainment series called Deals in Heels.  She will sit alongs...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

When Small Business Owners Dream, Everyone Wins

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Recently, the United States Small Business Administration honored Monica Starks, president and C. Denise Griffith, CEO, of Detroit-based G...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

How to Complete Self-Certification In Less Than an Hour

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Business owner Kiki Ramsey wanted to become certified as a Woman-Owned Small Business because she felt it would help her chances of getti...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Extraordinary Visionaries: Young Female Entrepreneurs

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

The Challenges and Rewards to Being a Female Entrepreneur

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At a recent panel discussion, three female entrepreneurs shared their stories of how they started their businesses, the challenges they fa...
Saturday, April 08, 2017

Sharing Best Lessons Learned in Entrepreneurship

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Women entrepreneurs share their best lessons learned from their experiences being entrepreneurs.  Here's one tip. She [Bernadette Re...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Natalie Kaddas Shows Us How to Take a Business Global

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Photo courtesy: Kaddas Enterprises; Natalie Kaddas, CEO, Kaddas Enterprises with President Obama For those of you who run businesses whe...
Saturday, April 01, 2017

Meet the Tea Lady

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Jennifer Gerdes began selling tea and handcrafted candles and other artisan goods when she started her own business, J. Cottage Industries...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

You are Never Too Young to Start a Business

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Eight-year old Oklahoma entrepreneur Londyn Bond took a trip to a jewelry store, which sparked an idea, and spurred her to start her own b...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Good Girl Business Owner

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The title of this post is a joke and it goes like this.  From a woman business owner: “When I had the fan motor in my walk-in freezer [a...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Quit the Rat Race and Start a Business

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If Claire and Ian Harrison (shown below) can start a food firm that provides hot food and drinks, you can too, that is, start a business. ...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

The Future of Business is Female

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Love, love, love this: If you ask some of the most powerful female executives today what the future looks like for women, most of them agre...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

How to Get a Product Out of a Lab and Into the Real World

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Amy Sheng , co-founder of CellScope created a smart-phone attachment for diagnosing kids' ear infections and brought it into the real...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Move Beyond Discussing Barriers to Achieving Success

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Female entrepreneurs are showing they are a force to be reckoned with despite barriers and challenges that could get in their way but don...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Anything Can Spur You Into Starting a Business

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What typically spurs a woman into starting a business?  It can be anything from wanting control over a one's destiny to divorce or eve...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Run Everyday

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As a regular runner, I speak from experience.  Regular exercise isn't just good for your body, it's great for your mind too -- fro...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Listen to Your Customers and Adapt With the Times

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Ilene Keivel started her career in the health care industry, working in sports medicine and outpatient physical therapy. But her inner ca...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

March On Ladies

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Whether a mother, sister, aunt, grandma, entrepreneur, activist, feminist, actor, homemaker, or artist, women are changing the world. Le...
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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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