Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, the prime minster of Malaysia, spoke at the Women in Leadership Forum in Abu Dhabi last month and presented data on female entrepreneurial activity.
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One of the best online resources for learning about expanding a business internationally is globalEDGE™: Your source for global business knowledge.
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University, globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information,
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How to contact cross-border customers? Exhibit at or attend a trade show in your industry. It is a uniquely effective way to contact cross-border customers, especially if you have a difficult product to sell, or a product that a customer needs to actually see!
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Where are women entrepreneurs rising fastest? Forget the advanced country of the United States! It’s Sao Paulo (related article here), Manila and Mumbai where women are leapfrogging to business ownership. What are they selling? Think simplistically: mangoes and home-made blouses.
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Whether male or female, we can all glean lessons from the likes of the late Steve Jobs. For example:
1. Push people out of their comfort zones
“He was someone who did not read the polls, but changed the polls by giving people what he was certain they wanted and needed before they knew it;
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Find out why women make excellent entrepreneurs in the digital age. Part of the growth for woman-owned businesses can be attributed to:
- Sheer necessity
- Balance of career and family
- Four essential skills (listening,
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And the winners are: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni rights campaigner Tawakkul Karman (pictured).
All of them have been recognized by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”
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The article, “Why aren’t there more foreign female entrepreneurs?” by Priya Alagiri examines the reason why there is a shortage of foreign women entrepreneurs in the United States.
One reason stated is:
The foreign women I interviewed also said that they’ve found it difficult to succeed because the “silicon ceiling” inhibits them from obtaining funding from private investors.
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Photo courtesy: ©Laurel Delaney 2010, “Apple store, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL U.S.A.”
Always giving his best work to the world, Steve Jobs died October 5, 2011 (1955-2011). His death triggered a remembrance to reading a wonderful On Excellence column by Tom Peters in 1993 (I saved all of his hard copy columns back then that were published in the Chicago Tribune –
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