Don’t miss our first on-the-ground WEGG Export Workshop held at the Polsky Exchange (formerly Chicago Innovation Exchange) on Wednesday, November 9th from 9:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. (noon). You will hear from Lisa Bitsky, President, Automated Design Corp.
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Alison Larson (pictured), founder of World Blazer Consulting, knows how to sell a brand successfully overseas. The proof lies in the history of her professional career. She spent more than 23 years developing global business for such esteemed companies as Carter’s and OshKosh B’Gosh.
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Mary Dillon (pictured), who runs Ulta Beauty, a place where women can get all their beauty needs met, is bucking a trend. Where many big name retailers are closing locations, the beauty retailer recently opened its 900th location, more than double the number five years ago.
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Mariachi is a folkloric tradition as macho as it is Mexican. Eight years ago (2008), Mireya Ramos and Shae Fiol sought to up-end convention and founded Mariachi Flor de Toloache, New York City’s first and only all-female mariachi band. With their bandmates Julie Acosta and Eunice Aparicio,
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Perfect timing. Considering the current political firestorm taking place between USA presidential candidates Trump and Clinton, here’s a different twist. Julie Smolyansky (pictured), the C.E.O. of Lifeway Foods, recalls the moment that fueled her drive to prove critics wrong when her father suddenly had a heart attack and passed away in 2002.
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Our Coalition Partner, Women Impacting Public Policy, talks about ten things our U.S. presidential candidates need to know about women entrepreneurs. We could not agree more with one of their points:
Women business owners seek markets beyond US borders.
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The African Women Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) in partnership with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides professional networking business development and trade capacity building system of opportunities for networks, which will assist female entrepreneurs across sub-Saharan Africa in relation to their businesses.
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Women entrepreneurs across the globe, especially in Asia, are re-examining life’s problems through a entrepreneurial business lens. By doing as such, women entrepreneurs are harnessing the power of global markets to tackle poverty and social ills, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation poll on the best countries for social entrepreneurs.
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SheEO founder Vicki Saunders (pictured below) is out to change the world for the better and her first step is to disrupt the traditional model of funding and investment for female entrepreneurs.
“In general,
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2012 survey of business owners, 39 percent of New Mexico businesses were women-owned and the top ones brought in over $362 million in revenue in 2015. That percentage is expected to rise to a solid 40 percent in 2017.
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