Sentences with phrase «more women entrepreneurs»

«In our small way we're stepping up to be leaders, and maybe people will see it, and it will encourage more women entrepreneurs or younger women in business to stay with it,» Ms. Gouw said.

Payment gateway firm PayU, CIIE - Ahmedabad, and 50K Ventures are coming together to create an entrepreneurial eco-system to make small and medium entrepreneurs use online payment systems, get more women entrepreneurs to use the online platform and give access to mentorship.

I — I do sweat the specifics, because I think they matter, whether one more kid gets health care, one more person finds a job, or one more woman entrepreneur gets access to capital to follow her dream — those just may be details in Washington, but it really matters to those people and their families.

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Today more women are pursuing higher education, and female professionals and entrepreneurs are making great strides in business.

A serial entrepreneur — she owns four restaurants and has founded two companies in addition to Thinx — Agrawal says that the danger of male investors asking the women in their lives for advice is that, more often than not, those women are not their target customers.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.

With something that might be more complicated and not as obvious, I think having women around the table will help get more female entrepreneurs funded.

Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

Abid has passion and drive which would be uncommon in most contexts, but which exemplified the delegate base of more than 100 female entrepreneurs that converged in mid-July at the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) conference in San Francisco.

«The conflation of STEM experience with ability to be «in tech» is something that seems to happen far more frequently (and reflexively) where women are concerned — yet it's a standard that is not similarly imposed on the many, many male entrepreneurs and VCs who participate in the industry,» wrote Rachel Sklar, founder of TheList.

Now, more than ever before, that entrepreneur is likely to be a woman.

More and more emerging entrepreneurs, women and men, are using business as a catalyst for social change and giving bMore and more emerging entrepreneurs, women and men, are using business as a catalyst for social change and giving bmore emerging entrepreneurs, women and men, are using business as a catalyst for social change and giving back.

This is especially important for female entrepreneurs, as women live on average five years longer than men and can have many more years in retirement to fund.

There are more than 9 million women - owned businesses in the U.S. alone, and mom entrepreneurs are rapidly growing in numbers.

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It's a given that women entrepreneurs are critical to economies everywhere, and now more than ever they're powering growth around the globe.

By contrast, women who raise A rounds in the Bay Area, «tend to have more technical backgrounds and many are serial entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital while running other companies.»

Changes in government contracting guidelines, and an awareness of those changes, has made it more attractive for women to own businesses; and there has been an increasing number of resources available to women and veterans who want to become entrepreneurs.

A «meet one, take one» campaign that encourages industry leaders to bring a woman or a minority to a networking or other event to broaden and diversify the network opportunities and create more inclusive communities for entrepreneurs.

The number of black women - owned businesses has more than tripled since 1997, making black females the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of black women - owned businesses grew by 67 % according to the National Women's Business Council's Survey of Business Owwomen - owned businesses has more than tripled since 1997, making black females the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of black women - owned businesses grew by 67 % according to the National Women's Business Council's Survey of Business Owwomen - owned businesses grew by 67 % according to the National Women's Business Council's Survey of Business OwWomen's Business Council's Survey of Business Owners.

Still, Pulatkonak sees great potential for the young women entrepreneurs coming into the pipeline to continue Turkey's progression toward equal rights, which has not only led to greater visibility for women leaders but has also recently paved the way for more egalitarian divorce laws.

Angel investment groups and boot camps designed to get female entrepreneurs funded and more women to the investment table are cropping up throughout the U.S.: X Squared Angels, 37 Angels and Pipeline Fellowship, to name a few.

Mullin adds that while some male investors have a track record of working well with women entrepreneurs, female investors tend connect more easily with products created by or for women.

Next, Anne sat down with Carla Harris, vice chair of wealth management at Morgan Stanley to discuss the economy, its impact on women entrepreneurs, and more!

The seven economies where there are as many or more women as men entrepreneurs are Panama, Thailand, Ghana, Ecuador, Nigeria, Mexico and Uganda, the report says.

«When a woman has a choice between being an employee, especially when this is associated with an attractive salary, job stability, good benefits and even high social approval, she is taking a greater risk in entering entrepreneurship; she has to forego this opportunity in order to be an entrepreneur, and therefore has more to lose,» says Kelly.

Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment, as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded as a way to integrate more women into the startup ecosystem.

In all parts of the world, women entrepreneurs are more likely to run businesses that work directly with the consumer, like retail businesses, the GEM data shows.

And the number of New York women entrepreneurs who raised the next stage of institutional funding — the Series B — more than doubled in 2016.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

From Uber's toxic workplace, to reports of venture capitalists harassing female entrepreneurs, to that Google bro who posted that manifesto saying women tend to be more neurotic than men even as the company undergoes a federal investigation into whether it pays women less than men... none of this is good.

We talk to two entrepreneurs and one venture capitalist about the challenges they face and what needs to happen for more women - owned businesses to reach the next level of growth.

This makes men more primed to be the bigger risk takers, which help explains the higher number of male entrepreneurs than women, Musselman said.

EKOCENTER is a modular community market that is run by a local woman entrepreneur and also provides safe water, solar power, Internet access, and more.

Partnering with Women's Enterprise Centre and Alberta Women Entrepreneurs from Canada, Astra is bringing you more networking and business opportunities to expand your business globally!

Having spent much of last spring touring the remarkable and little - reported - on tech startup communities in the Middle East — from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai — I was excited to see that no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.

«I'm hopeful that as the industry attracts and promotes more female VCs, and there are more female entrepreneurs starting businesses, it will create a cycle of opportunity for even more women to enter into tech and succeed.»

Dell, which has a long history of supporting growing businesses and women entrepreneurs, jumped on the opportunity, and Alice was born to help women entrepreneurs build more scalable and sustainable businesses.

American women are leading the pack as entrepreneurs, and their voices are carrying more weight than ever before in the corporate sector.

In September 2016, an expanded coalition of more than 30 corporations and non-profit organizations made a new commitment - «Girls, Women and the Global Goals» - to spend more than $ 15 billion with women - owned businesses and empower more than 10,000 women entreprenWomen and the Global Goals» - to spend more than $ 15 billion with women - owned businesses and empower more than 10,000 women entreprenwomen - owned businesses and empower more than 10,000 women entreprenwomen entrepreneurs.

But only 2 % of women entrepreneurs in the U.S. have reached more than $ 1 million in revenues.

The partners intended to create a more efficient, effective channel to identify, develop, and scale high - potential women entrepreneurs who could become strong corporate suppliers.

It's easier for a 25 - year - old male entrepreneur with average ethics and average execution to raise more funds than a woman entrepreneur.

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And there's a lot more support between and among women, to offer ideas, insights, suggestions, encouragement — as well as from a number of men who recognize that not every entrepreneur or successful entrepreneur's going to look the same as it may have 30, 40 years ago.

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In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Business Rockstars goes behind the scenes at Clevver, a largely female - driven media company where strong women work as on - air talent, writers, producers and more.

Likewise, successful men and women entrepreneurs founded their companies when they had similar numbers of children living at home, though men were more likely than women to be married.

Women entrepreneurs have shown the business ownership is no longer a «man's world,» and those numbers only stand to increase as women in entrepreneurship discover more niche markets and competitors fall by the wayWomen entrepreneurs have shown the business ownership is no longer a «man's world,» and those numbers only stand to increase as women in entrepreneurship discover more niche markets and competitors fall by the waywomen in entrepreneurship discover more niche markets and competitors fall by the wayside.