Female entrepreneurs are far less likely than their male counterparts to seek angel financing even though the percentage of women owned businesses securing funding is not that much lower than the success rate of businesses owned by men, new research shows.That's because women entrepreneurs are far too busy doing things versus seeking things. Why else have we been able to achieve the status of the fastest-growing sector of all businesses? You tell me!
Whether you are an entrepreneur or corporate executive, do you think golf is important for building business? For instance,Monica White, an international business development analyst, says she wishes she could join her colleagues in their golf obsession, especially since her husband just bought her a new set of clubs. But she has never played and she's afraid of "looking like a moron" in front of her co-workers.Do you think Monica would feel the same if it were her own business? Or do you think she would blow off golf and do something else that achieves the same outcome?
My favorite entrepreneurial magazine, Entrepreneur, has just launched a website designed exclusively for the growing women's business community.
Forty years after Gloria Steinem and Germain Greer, women are still a rarity in the corporate suite. Eager to curry favor with female customers, the investment community and the press, big companies now are looking to turn the tide. "Everyone in the U.S. is very focused on gender, and corporate boards are pushing for more equity [at the highest levels]," says Colleen O'Neill, partner at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, a unit of Marsh & McLennan.
Just coming off of a bad bout of flu so you can imagine how tickled I was to see an article with the title of "'Nothing can stop you,' entrepreneurs are told."
At first, you may feel burned out. Then you get fired up. Next, it's start a business. But did you ever think about creating the Burned Business Women's Association?“The whole idea is to get women who are burned out to get together and have fun, poke fun at corporate America, be irreverent, and not take ourselves or job titles too seriously.”Why aren't these women banding together to brainstorm about what kinds of business to start instead of wasting time poking fun at corporate America?
UPS today kicked off a program that seeks the best small businesses across the globe -- from Alabama to Argentina and from Zimbabwe to New Zealand.The entries will be judged by an international panel of renowned small business experts, including: Laurel Delaney, President and Founder, Global TradeSource, Ltd.; Joshua Lau, Founder and CEO of YesAsia; Juan Antonio "Oso" Oseguera, editor of Entrepreneur en Español and Hayden Bradshaw, publisher and editor of Enterprise Magazine.Read the press release here. I am honored and cannot wait!
I saved this in my pile of clips ... featured in The WSJ on April 16th ... wanted to make sure you caught it.
Many entrepreneurs start their own businesses to escape the confines of corporate life. Yes, and that's why we're here! As a result, few bring that structure to their own operations.
I could not agree more with Judith H. Dobrzynski's brilliant commentary published in The Boston Globe today (5/1), especially this part:There's been a lot of talk lately about women fleeing corporate America because they are unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to advance. Perhaps. But doesn't it seem just as likely that women are leaving because they are not allowed into corridors of real power even after they've made the sacrifices?
If only I were running the hotel salon that gave these haircuts, I'd be a very rich business owner! There's a price to pay for convenience!There's a problem here, though. When the media spends time covering "issues" like a candidate's haircuts it blatantly overlooks what's really at stake: Whoever sits in the White House has enormous power to change things for America, for good or bad.And of course, so do entrepreneurs.
Last September, morning TV got a boost as Rosie O'Donnell gave the dismal daytime chatfest The View something to actually talk about.What do you think? Agree or disagree? Read more here.
But that relationship ends this June as O'Donnell announced Wednesday on The View that she and ABC were unable to come to an agreement.
"I will be coming back and guest-hosting," said O'Donnell. "I'll be doing one-hour specials on autism and depression and stuff I'm interested in. I'm just not going to do the everyday thing."
O'Donnell says it was a contract issue, but you know the haters -- i.e. Bill O'Reilly and his ilk -- will suggest O'Donnell's views on gay rights, her anti-George W. Bush opinions and the public feud with billionaire bully Donald Trump somehow harmed ABC, which is owned by milquetoast Walt Disney.
The past 20 years have brought tremendous growth in Arizona and with that, endless opportunity.
What is Women 2.0? Women 2.0 connects like-minded, motivated young women in the Silicon Valley to swap energy, ideas, and experiences with each other.
WOW. It's been a long time since I've seen Amazon reviews this bad. The author had a strong start and then slowly, one by one, the women started slamming her. Check it out here. I have not read the book nor do I intend to but I'm curious if anyone else has and what you thought, thanks.
Should Catalyst go back to naming companies without women at the top?
Do you have what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur?
Since yesterday was such a rainy day in Chicago, I headed over to Borders to check out the latest in periodicals. I scanned Strategy & Business, Harvard Business Review (read Bossidy's What Your Leader Expects of You), GQ (bought a copy for my husband), PINK, Inc., Going Bonkers (brand new self-help magazine with a sense of humor -- let's just say it's different) and BusinessWeek SmallBiz (to re-read the Why High-Powered Women Are Leaving Corporate America to Become Entrepreneurs ... bummed that they did not mention our work here) to get my latest fix on business.Most professional women step off the career fast track at some point. With children to raise, elderly parents to care for, and other pulls on their time, these women are confronted with one off-ramp after another. When they feel pushed at the same time by long hours and unsatisfying work, the decision to leave becomes even easier. But woe to the woman who intends for that exit to be temporary. The on-ramps for professional women to get back on track are few and far between, the authors confirm. Their new survey research reveals for the first time the extent of the problem--what percentage of highly qualified women leave work and for how long, what obstacles they face coming back, and what price they pay for their time-outs. And what are the implications for corporate America? One thing at least seems clear: As market and economic factors align in ways guaranteed to make talent constraints and skill shortages huge issues again, employers must learn to reverse this brain drain. Like it or not, large numbers of highly qualified, committed women need to take time out of the workplace. The trick is to help them maintain connections that will allow them to reenter the workforce without being marginalized for the rest of their lives. Strategies for building such connections include creating reduced-hour jobs, providing flexibility in the workday and in the arc of a career, removing the stigma of taking time off, refusing to burn bridges, offering outlets for altruism, and nurturing women's ambition. An HBR Special Report, available online at www.womenscareersreport.hbr.org, presents detailed findings of the survey.Download their original report, The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women's Careers, here. Book is available through Harvard Business School Press May 2007.
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