Women Entrepreneurs

Hearsay Social is a social media platform for businesses with local branches, to bring the corporate marketing structure to a local level. The company was co-founded by Clara Shih, writer of the popular book The Facebook Era.[read more]

During my trip to New York, I had the good fortune to meet up with my good friend and client Amanda Wang. I have written and spoken about Amanda many times, including in my TEDx talk about the power of the next generation.[read more]

How you define success is actually your key to success. Here is a process to help you reach clarity on your definition of success.[read more]

5 skills women can use to negotiation powerfully.[read more]

If you’re a woman who is looking to start a business and you have both a great idea and a comprehensive plan, but find yourself woefully lacking in funds, then you’ll be happy to hear that there are a lot of resources out there geared at helping you get your enterprise off the ground.[read more]

I spent the day yesterday in Kansas City at the Kauffman Foundation with about 20 women entrepreneurs who were the E&Y Winning Women from 2008, 2009, and 2010. As part of their program, Paul Kedrosky and I spent the morning talking to them about accelerating their growth, dynamics around financings, and boards – mostly about how to...[read more]

My long time friend Matt Blumberg, the CEO of Return Path, wrote a blog post today titled A New Kind of Partnership for Return Path. In it he talks about his recognition, as Return Path has grown (they are now around 250 people), of the gender imbalance in the software engineering team (women are around 15% of total engineering team.. He...[read more]

I focus a lot of my time and energy on helping clients remember the importance of ongoing communications as their strategic plan unfolds. Keeping employees informed on a regular basis helps to keep the finish line in sight and ensures that everyone runs the same race. But getting from where you are now to where the organization needs to...[read more]

Are you ready? It’s such a simple question. When asked of the would-be entrepreneur inevitably the answer is an enthusiastic, “Sure!”, or, at the very least a more tempered, “I think so.” Contained within that one question is a whole universe of variables that business strategist Carol Roth seeks to unfold and hold up to the scrutiny of...[read more]

I can’t believe that a Supreme Court Justice would  say that the 14th Amendment does not apply to all PEOPLE in the USA. Just to be clear this is what went down in the interview with California Lawyer Magazine: Q. In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don’t think...[read more]

Several good articles on the growing role women are playing in the economy this week.  Huffington Post's The Decade of the Women is Upon Us covers the She-conomy trend from the Intuit 2020 Report and adds the very important point that women doing better does not mean men have to do worse.  Economics is not a zero sum game...[read more]

The Gotham Gal is involved in an event in late January called The Women Entrepreneur Festival. They are doing it with and at NYU's ITP program. I love the idea of calling it a "festival." This is a celebration of women entrepreneurs. Exactly what we should be doing to showcase role models and make the point that women are just as good...[read more]

It's a She-conomy is one of my favorite Intuit 2020 Report trends.  Intuit's Michael Runzler came up with this clever term to describe the growing role women are playing in the global economy.  I want to focus on one of the key drivers of the She-conomy in the U.S. - education.  Over the last couple of ...[read more]

A rule, published in the Federal Register, by the United States SBA to boost opportunities for small businesses owned by women was finalized this week and expected to be fully implemented in 2011. The program authorizes 5 percent of federal contracts to be set aside for women-owned small businesses where the anticipated contract...[read more]

Inc. 5000 clothing designers, Tea Collection's co-founders are two women who run the company today and continue to achieve high marks in customer loyalty.[read more]

While the neglect of small business by the current administration has drawn criticism, Barbara believes most government proposals never really help anyway. “Government should get out of the way,” she says, “and let small business do what it does.” As for the healthcare bill, she believes the growing amount of paperwork small...[read more]

A well-known coach and writer, Pam is a former corporate manager who also spent years consulting with such corporate leviathans as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. So she's witnessed first-hand the angst many corporate employees have experienced as they’ve sought to take the entrepreneurial plunge. Pam blogs about her passion for...[read more]