According to Michele DeKinder-Smith of Jane Out of the Box, there are five types of women entrepreneurs. The type you are influences the way you run your business, and, as a by-product, how much money you make. DeKinder-Smith’s research has been done with nearly 3,000 women entrepreneurs according to a recent article in the [...]
| In a recent post on TechCrunch by Vivek Wadhwa, Lesa Mitchell, VP of the Kauffman Foundation was cited as saying that “Women need encouragement, entrepreneurship education, and access to solid mentor networks—particularly in fields in which the deck is stacked against them.” Vivak also cited statistics from her research, “Women start only around 3% [...] In the announcement for the Women Entrepreneur’s Rock the World Event in New York on May 5-6, 2010 (wish I could attend — sounds great!), there’s a note about something that Michael Gerber, author of E-Myth, has said: Gerber states that the #1 mistake women entrepreneurs make in running their companies is that they don’t [...] I’m sure you know by now that the International Women’s Day was created for “celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.” As an entrepreneurial woman, what should you celebrate today? Here are my thoughts: Your courage. It takes courage and determination to start a business–kind of like grabbing for [...] I finished reading Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel-winning economist. I highly recommend it to get an understanding of what happened to the economy and what we need to do to make it better in the future. One of the many salient points he [...] | 
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