Sentences with phrase «women entrepreneurs»

Women entrepreneurs also account for 70 % of new business start - ups.

Even so, women entrepreneurs are finding ways to gain capital.

The focus of this delegation will be on supporting and promoting women entrepreneurs.

Needless to say, RBC is proud to be the # 1 bank for women entrepreneurs in Canada, with 22 per cent market share.

The good news is that this makes good financial sense too as women entrepreneurs have shown that they outperform their peers financially, to the tune of 35 % higher returns and 12 % higher revenue using 1/3 less capital.

Her firm, One Extra Zero, counsels women entrepreneurs in how to launch their businesses into the million dollar range or higher.

While we did rank # 1 for tech - enabled environments for women entrepreneurs across all 50 cities globally in 2017, we ranked # 16 in terms of the percentage of capital given to women led businesses and # 15 overall for our ability to attract and support women entrepreneurs.

Since close to 821,000 women entrepreneurs contribute $ 18 billion to the Canadian economy each year, women need to continue raising the bar and raising their voice.

The «Critical incidents among women entrepreneurs» study cited above, claims that «the main challenges they (women) face in their professional context are: difficulties concerning acceptance, lack of affective and social support, difficulty operating on the international market, problems balancing personal, family, and professional matters,» among others.

In short, Brand knows that Austin is uniquely positioned as a place where women entrepreneurs can flourish — lifting themselves, their families and our whole community.

There is also a dynamic that occurs when women investors invest in women entrepreneurs, which is that the investment is over 30 percent more likely to lead to a successful exit.

Aegis Group has (already) won an award for the best Emerging Business from Alberta Women Entrepreneurs - AWE.»

While these scandals expose the harmful reality of venture capital's male - dominated culture on women entrepreneurs, they have helped highlight an equally important issue — the extreme lack of gender diversity in all aspects of venture capital.

VC firms with female partners are more than twice as likely to invest in companies with a woman on the management team (34 % of VC firms with a woman partner versus 13 % of VC firms without a woman partner), according to Diana Report Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital.

Also, Austin hold the number one spot for startup activity, providing women entrepreneurs more opportunity.

Power and money can lead to harassment, assault and lack of financing for women entrepreneurs.

There's a lot of data showing a cultural unconscious bias against women entrepreneurs, from both male and female investors.

Women entrepreneurs are taking ground in the push for equal rights for women in the workplace.

«Start Here Little Rock provides a starting point for minority and women entrepreneurs by raising awareness and providing access to the resources and support already available in the thriving startup community right here in Little Rock.»

Victoria is also Managing Director of Astia, an organization committed to leveling the playing field for women entrepreneurs by providing access to capital, expertise and networks for the companies they lead.

The sexual harassment scandals that keep sweeping through Silicon Valley (and countless other industries) continue to expose the culture women entrepreneurs have lived in for quite some time.

Some recent work out of the Columbia Business School shows that investors universally ask women entrepreneurs more prevention oriented questions while they ask men more promotion oriented questions.

But women entrepreneurs do not have to push for their rights in the workplace.

At Dream It, we helped launch programs focused specifically on health tech, education tech, minority entrepreneurs, and women entrepreneurs.

Women@Austin brings together the city's best and brightest female leaders and entrepreneurs to work toward a mission of making Austin the number one supportive city, and most accessible in the nation for 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.

He recognized the 40th anniversary of Canada - ASEAN relations and the importance of supporting women entrepreneurs in the region and increasing trade.

She is also a founder of the Women's Entrepreneurial Council (WEC), a «super» organization created to align the many groups that support women entrepreneurs, and provide a powerful ecosystem for entrepreneurial women.

Once a quarter we bring together an exclusive forum for women entrepreneurs and executives at Capital Factory's venue downtown.

What are the business challenges women entrepreneurs face especially in Africa?

Mr. Trudeau visited Washington on Monday with a cadre of cabinet ministers and several female business executives who participated in a roundtable on women entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Speaking of grants, these are probably you're best bet on finding a loan for your startup since they're based on demographics, like grants that are offered to women entrepreneurs.

It even acknowledged that there were different kinds of women, mentioning Indigenous women 34 times, and women entrepreneurs 14 times.

This experience with women entrepreneurs thriving under such austere circumstances was a turning point for me.

Morgan is not only CEO of a fast growing Fintech, she is also the cohost of the podcast «Women Who Startup Radio», an ardent mentor to other women entrepreneurs who speaks regularly on business finance, fundraising, and scaling a startup.

The Commercial Capital Training Group will also teach women entrepreneurs how to build up residual income streams, so that there is a steady cash flow in between the big financial deals.

However, with all of the progressive trails than women entrepreneurs are blazing, there are still some things female business owners need to keep in mind for success.

Kara has been named among Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and Forbes» 40 Women to Watch Over 40.

Luckily, «Momtrepreneurs» across the country are starting online communities to provide a support structure to help one another — not just in the aspects of raising a family, but in offering advice so women entrepreneurs can grow their own successful businesses.

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 wayside.

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.

A record breaking 6,400 women entrepreneurs from coast to coast were nominated for this year...

Entrepreneurial Winning Women is a competitive award and executive education program that identifies a select group of high - potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale — and then helps them do it.

2005.02.19 «Putting you first: Empowering women entrepreneurs» Charlie Coffey, O.C. Executive Vice President Government Affairs Women in Transition Seminar

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.

APEC has been making efforts to engage women entrepreneurs.

The latest OPEN State of Women - Owned Business report shows the increasing clout of women entrepreneurs.

While the challenges for women entrepreneurs can be great, Wang added, they need to start with the right mindset and say, «I can do it.»

Jenny Poon of Co + hoots was cited as an example of the power of women entrepreneurs who have «paid it forward» by investing in community, youthful entrepreneurs, adding new jobs, and scaling companies.

Canadian businesses and governments at all levels should embrace the China e-commerce opportunity; doing so is good business for MSMEs, for women entrepreneurs, and for Canada.