Project Frog — led by CEO Ann Hand, who was named one of Fortune's 10 Most Powerful
Women Entrepreneurs in 2013 — designs and manufactures component buildings that can be assembled easily onsite, mainly for schools, health care facilities and retail.
She was named among the Top 50
Women Entrepreneurs in America by Inc..
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Fillmore Riley's Anita Southall is featured in the inaugural issue of Women Business Owners Today — a magazine dedicated to celebrating the success of
women entrepreneurs in Canada.
And kind of going back to the Exhibit Hall as well, that's something I have been seeing recently too is
women entrepreneurs in the space.
The project mainly targets
women entrepreneurs in rural areas.
Frontier Markets has distributed over 250,000 solar lighting products through their network of
women entrepreneurs in rural villages throughout India.
The constellation of individuals, companies and countries who pledged action on energy were joined by hundreds of commitments on everything from greening 10,000 square kilometers of desert to empowering 5,000 African
women entrepreneurs in green economy businesses to recycling 800,000 tons per year of PVC by 2020.
Women in the Pet Industry Network (WIPIN), an organization focused on
women entrepreneurs in the pet industry, will host the first - ever women - focused conference and award show this summer.
In a study from Manipal University of Indian
women entrepreneurs in the textile and apparel industry, they found that their desire to fulfill their dream of being an entrepreneur is what motivated them to start a business, more so than other motivational triggers.
In the Google Hangout video directly below, author Kim Hruba contributed a portion of the funds she raised to Freedom From Hunger, a nonprofit that offers micro-loans to
women entrepreneurs in the twenty - four most poverty - stricken countries in the world.
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Not only does Studio 15 have great pieces for every gal, what I love is the fact that they donate a portion of every sale to support
women entrepreneurs in various countries!
I also invest in
women entrepreneurs in developing nations through Kiva.
There is so much «opportunity» in the future for funding
women entrepreneurs in the VC space.
Needless to say, RBC is proud to be the # 1 bank for
women entrepreneurs in Canada, with 22 per cent market share.
Her firm, One Extra Zero, counsels
women entrepreneurs in how to launch their businesses into the million dollar range or higher.
He recognized the 40th anniversary of Canada - ASEAN relations and the importance of supporting
women entrepreneurs in the region and increasing trade.
But only 2 % of
women entrepreneurs in the U.S. have reached more than $ 1 million in revenues.
Sullivan seems to be everywhere in this red - hot area, whether it's backing work on gender equity in education or a push to nurture
women entrepreneurs in Africa.
In honor of that, Free Enterprise asked seven brave
women entrepreneurs in the STEM fields to let us know one piece of advice they wish they had known when they got started.
Showcase the successes of growth - oriented, venture capital — funded
women entrepreneurs in order to change the social perception that only male entrepreneurs can be successful in venture capital funding
Covering the many faceted interests of
women entrepreneurs in all areas of business, the NAWBO has chapters all across the United States and maintains affiliate chapters around the world.
Here are
some women entrepreneurs in both health care and tech who might not precisely fit Holmes's category (no co-founder, venture backing), but definitely deserve to be better - known.
Women entrepreneurs in particular did so, but — according to the dozen or so interviews Inc. has conducted since election day — it wasn't because they are OK with his sexist commentary.
Along with other female venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise
women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.
While the experiences of
women entrepreneurs in the developing world are as diverse as the countries they inhabit, since the difficulties facing a small woman - owned business in Vietnam looks nothing like that of a new venture in, say, Turkey or India, there are some common challenges.
Women in India also have among the most innovative business ideas globally, whereas
women entrepreneurs in China have less fear of failure, the report says.
Next, Diane Sawyer and the 60 Minutes crew showed up to do a story about the Women's Economic Development Corp., a program for
women entrepreneurs in which Gordon was involved.
It's surrounding
women entrepreneurs in a circle of mentorship, sources of capital and the knowledge and media placement to help their businesses thrive, giving them all of the tools to accelerate their growth and take them to the next level.
(Female Founder Office Hours is a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise
women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.)
Contrary to what is often portrayed in the media, being
a woman entrepreneur in the tech community has its perks.
Perry bought her company from its previous owners in 1992, and has thrived as
a woman entrepreneur in an industry dominated by men.
I remembered that a year earlier, in November 2016, Asay had told me in an interview about the hurdles she faced as
a women entrepreneur in legal tech.
Not exact matches
It's abundantly clear that
women and minority
entrepreneurs face substantial barriers
in the venture and startup ecosystem — including,
in some cases, harassment and abuse.
Today more
women are pursuing higher education, and female professionals and
entrepreneurs are making great strides
in business.
Theresia and Jennifer see massive potential
in women entrepreneurs, and so do I. Which is why I decided to invest
in Aspect.
Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial
entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing
in women.
The fact that the number of
women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible,
in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.
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.
In 2010, venture capitalists Sonja Hoel Perkins and Jennifer Fonstad corralled a group of Silicon Valley's most powerful
women to form Broadway Angels; so far, 48 percent of its
entrepreneurs are
women.
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.
If you are going to be a successful
entrepreneur as a
woman, you absolutely can not care one whit what your neighbors, colleagues,
in - laws, or anyone else thinks of your social life or your parenting abilities.
«Because of its family - friendly policies and a favourable political environment for startups and investment
in women, Canada is an emerging hot spot for female entrepreneurs,» Aidis commented when the survey results were released at the recent Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network Summit in Be
women, Canada is an emerging hot spot for female
entrepreneurs,» Aidis commented when the survey results were released at the recent Dell
Women's Entrepreneur Network Summit in Be
Women's
Entrepreneur Network Summit
in Berlin.
In all 31 countries,
women were significantly less likely then men to know an
entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor of Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company, talks to delegates at the Dell
Women's
Entrepreneur Network conference
in San Francisco
in July 2017.
For an intense period this summer, almost all my reporting for Inc. and Inc.com involved
women entrepreneurs and
women in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
According to the Intellectual Property and
Women Entrepreneurs 2012 report (IPWE) conducted by the National Women's Business Council, women have a significantly higher participation in trademark activity compared to patent acti
Women Entrepreneurs 2012 report (IPWE) conducted by the National
Women's Business Council, women have a significantly higher participation in trademark activity compared to patent acti
Women's Business Council,
women have a significantly higher participation in trademark activity compared to patent acti
women have a significantly higher participation
in trademark activity compared to patent activity.