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Forge a Global Partnership

Published August 17, 2013 Business Development , Gender challenges , global women entrepreneurs , Inspiration Leave a Comment
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We posted about this fabulous article on our sister site, The Global Small Business Blog.  Women continue to embrace entrepreneurship and forge relationships across borders.  Forming global partnerships is a way to expand internationally.

… women all over the world have also taken hold of entrepreneurship as shown by the Gender Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (Gender-GEDI) released in June and the just-released Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2012 Women’s Report, sponsored by Babson College and two international universities.

Read the entire article here.

Related articles:

•  Global Strategic Alliances:  Advantages and Disadvantages to Global Strategic Alliances

•  Global Strategic Alliances:  Negotiating the Deal on a Global Strategic Alliance

•  Global Strategic Alliances:  Enter Into a Global Strategic Alliance (GSA) For the Right Reasons

Photo courtesy:  United States Mission Geneva

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

Japanese Women Are a Key Part of the Country’s Economic Growth

Published August 10, 2013 Announcement , Country specific , global women entrepreneurs Leave a Comment
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Fresh green tea leaves

Encouraged by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy of making women a key part of the country’s economic growth, state-affiliated financial institutions are strengthening their support for female entrepreneurs.  This growth initiative is anticipated to accelerate.

In June, Keiko Yoshimoto, president of Royal Blue Tea Japan Co., won the second new business plan competition for female entrepreneurs organized by the Women Entrepreneurs Center of the government-backed Development Bank of Japan.

Japanese women want to provide solutions to current problems.  Entrepreneurship is a vehicle to make it happen.  However, it is difficult for women to launch new businesses in Japan due to difficulties in balancing work and family lives.

Read the entire article:  State-backed banks said boosting aid for female entrepreneurs as per Abe policy agenda

Related article and worth a read:  Women Entrepreneurship (2007); There are indications of global changes in venture businesses in Japan.

Photo courtesy:  Wilerson S Andrade

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

Women the World Over Who Dare to Start Their Own Business

Published August 3, 2013 Announcement , Education , Gender challenges , global women entrepreneurs , Research Leave a Comment
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Cuna (Panama) Woman

According to a new report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which tracks entrepreneurial activity in 67 countries, women lead in entrepreneurship in seven countries.

Women entrepreneurship varies widely around the world, however. In Zambia, for example, 40 percent of women are engaged in entrepreneurial activity. In Pakistan, only 1 percent of women dare to start their own businesses.

Read the entire article:  Global Entrepreneurship Monitor finds 126 million women entrepreneurs in 67 countries

Photo courtesy:  Christian Dory (Note:  Kuna or Cuna is the name of an indigenous people of Panama and Columbia).

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

Women Have the Power to Influence the World

Published July 27, 2013 Announcement , Country specific , global women entrepreneurs , Inspiration 1 Comment
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Ghana

The Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur, has launched the Awesome Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Magazine, a publication aimed at nurturing and motivating women entrepreneurs.  The magazine is targeting aspiring and current female business owners between 20 and 60 years old.

AWE will be published once a year for women entrepreneurs, providing support through a range of articles, some of which have been culled from the University of Georgia’s Business Sense Archives.

“It is  important to empower women because they have the power to influence the world,” says Mrs. Amissah-Arthur.

Read the entire article:  Second Lady Launches Women Magazine

Photo courtesy:  Oluniyi Ajao

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

Boost Business Through Exports

Published July 20, 2013 Business Development , Country specific , Exporting Leave a Comment
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Eastern Cape, South Africa (Port Elizabeth)

Eastern Cape businesswomen are on a mission through an Eastern Cape cooperative to crack into international markets.  Thanks to the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), more than thirty-three business people are participating in in the 30th International Fair of Luanda Trade Exhibition popularly known as FILDA, taking place in the Angolan capital of Luanda.

One of the participants, Mbecwa says:

“I am also harbouring ambitions of seeing our soya mince which we produce in Butterworth, attracting attention from the Angolan people or even exhibitors from other countries so that we can start exporting. Entering the export market will be a huge boost to our business and will result in us expanding our business by increasing production and hiring more people.”

Read the entire article here.

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Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

Building Trust in a Relationship

Published July 13, 2013 Education , Enlighten Me! , Inspiration 1 Comment
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Trust affects all of us and is an important lubricant for economic exchanges to take place in a productive manner.  It is especially important in international business relationships, where, due to distance, you might not have an opportunity to meet an individual in person, yet elect to do business with him from thousands of miles away and in a culture unlike your own.

In the following article, I talk about six ways to build trust in a global business relationship.  These methods also apply to personal relationships.  My intent is that you will nurture a relationship to last a lifetime.

Read the entire article (created for my client Pitney Bowes):

Six Ways to Build Trust in a Global Business Relationship

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Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

A World Where Women Have a Voice and Excel

Published July 6, 2013 Education , Poverty (tackling it) , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
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Cherie Blair (pictured) has it right.  She’s developed the Cherie Blair Foundation (2008) to help women build small and growing businesses in developing and emerging markets so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies.

The Foundation’s vision is:

A world where women have equal opportunities and the capability, confidence and capital necessary to establish and grow businesses, resulting in a brighter future for the women themselves and their communities as a whole.

Visit the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

And be sure to catch the latest initiative involving the launch of Business Women in Tanzania – a mobile service to reach an additional 75,000 women entrepreneurs!

Photo courtesy:  Medill DC

Sustainable Empowerment for Women (SEW)

Published June 29, 2013 Award/recognition/nomination(s) , Education , Sustainability practices , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
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Royal Holloway, University of London

Economics, politics and international relations student Rosa Pellicer from the Enactus Society at Royal Holloway (University of London) won the ‘Outstanding Contribution Award’ for founding and leading a project in Anantapur in India, called Sustainable Empowerment for Women (S.E.W.).

What did S.E.W. team members do to win the award?  The team taught a community of forty impoverished women how to produce and sell incense sticks, including all stages of business from market research and product development, to production and sales.

Now that is entrepreneurship education at its best.  Congratulations to Rosa and her team for such great work!

Read the interview conducted by Royal Holloway with Rosa here.

Excerpt:

What inspired you to set up a project for women in India?

“… I witnessed the harsh realities that many women in India face. Indeed, violence and disrespect was a recurring theme, especially within poor and rural communities. This inspired me to act. I looked to find a local NGO that would help transform my vision into a reality. I’ve always been very proactive, and believe that in order to change something, you must work to make it happen.”

Photo courtesy:  Ashley Coates

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney

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