Sponsored by Pave: Starting a business is exciting, challenging, and emotional. Women entrepreneurs are faced with a myriad of obstacles along the way, but recognizing potential mistakes before you make them could be the difference between business success and business failure. Following are five common mistakes that women entrepreneurs make when starting businesses. … [Read more...]
10 Hot Topics that Mattered to Women in Business in 2013
What were the hot topics of 2013 for women in business? Looking back at the Women on Business archives from the past 12 months, a few topics take the lead: leadership, the business gender gap (including equal pay, the glass ceiling, and so on), and entrepreneurship. Following are some of the most popular articles published on Women on Business by both contributors and … [Read more...]
Overcoming the 3 Biggest Fears of Starting a Business
As a 32-year-old woman, I am well aware of all the challenges, heartache and fear that go into being self-employed. Three years ago, I was working as an attorney for a law firm. I was overworked, had no time to have a life and found myself wondering why in the world I had wasted so many years of my life getting a law degree. Fast-forward to today…although I work harder and am … [Read more...]
State of Women-Owned Businesses and Women Presidents in 2013 [Infographic]
The Women's Presidents' Organization released the results of its Economic Impact Survey which offers key statistics about women-owned businesses and women presidents in general. According to the survey results, two out of three women presidents (65%) achieved positive growth during the first six months of 2013, with one out of two (50%) hiring new employees and nearly two … [Read more...]
What Does Having It All Mean to You?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate among smart woman on whether Moms can truly have it “all.” Some, like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, say yes, and share their tips on how you too can have a thriving career and family. Others, like former State Department official Ann Marie Slaughter say no, unlike what we’ve always been told, for women it’s just not possible. At least … [Read more...]
Ch..Ch..Changes
I know that I’ve spoken of this before and I hate that I am writing about it again, but if I just had this situation chances are that many of my readers are struggling with something similar as well. I have a colleague that I worked with and the relationship crashed and burned. To me it was a part of business, while we did not work well together I didn’t see it as anything … [Read more...]
Fortune 40 Under 40 2013 List Includes 17 Women in Business
While the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans in 2013 list includes only 43 women, the Fortune 40 under 40 in 2013 list is nearly gender equal. Seventeen women appear in the list of 40 individuals under the age of 40 who are making a big impact on the business world in 2013, but only 3 of them appear in the top ten, only four appear in the top 20, and only seven appear in the … [Read more...]
Women Catch the Entrepreneurial Spirit and Win
Sponsored by VISA Business: Over the past 15 years, the number of women-owned businesses has grown by 54%. Today, there are over 8 million women-owned businesses, and women are founding businesses at a rate 1.5 times higher than the national average. Those women-owned businesses generate revenues of $1.3 trillion and employ 7.7 million people. That’s 40% more people than … [Read more...]
The Small Business Owner Blues
In the silence of the night when everyone else has shut down and you are left with your decisions, that’s when you become an entrepreneur. Someone said to me once that to be an entrepreneur you have to have a spouse with a full-time job and while that anecdote is funny it’s also a bit sad. The very essence of an entrepreneur is a risk-taker, however unfair that risk is to the … [Read more...]
Lead by Numbers
I used to be petrified of failure, but being an entrepreneur cured me of that. I used to think that business owners knew some magical formula for success, but being an entrepreneur cured me of that too. The secret is in knowing that separation breeds indifference. When you aren’t close to your customers, you don’t care how they are treated. Or if you do care, you care too late … [Read more...]