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Posted by: Laurel Delaney
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Women entrepreneurs in County Mayo, Ireland (where my ancestors on my Dad’s side of the family are from!) are being called on to apply for a free programme which pairs them with some of Ireland’s leading businesswomen as mentors. The program is called Going for Growth and has been effective with more than 300 businesswomen since it was established in 2008.
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After years of work with women entrepreneurs internationally, Amy Scerra and Steve Haase of Think Global Institute decided to bring their global program full circle—and they’re starting in Denver, Colorado.
The nonprofit hosts a 12-week “business accelerator” program for women entrepreneurs who have “hit a roadblock or hurdle,” says Scerra.
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Are women less capable than men when it comes to starting a business? According to co-authors Susan Duffy and Sharon Kan, that’s the perception many women have about themselves, which leads to a staggering amount of entrepreneurial potential being left on the table. Don’t think for it minute though that it applies to US women.
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Before entering international markets, many small business owners focus primarily on their domestic market. Usually, initial international marketing begins with unsolicited inquiries from foreign customers online via email, website, blog or posting on a Facebook Page. In the following article that I authored for American Express’s The Knowledge Center,
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My friend, colleague and entrepreneur dynamo, Melinda Emerson, kicks off the 6th annual Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a menu of events around the world that bring together millions of people through web-based and live activities, by supporting women entrepreneurs and their essential contributions to our world economic health and well-being.
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How do you advance women’s entrepreneurship? Five Babson College women have spent their careers studying women entrepreneurs, and they’re sharing that knowledge in order to create policies and strategies to help more women succeed in business in countries around the world.
Called the Women Innovating Now Lab,
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Jessica Brondo (pictured), founder and CEO of The Edge in College Prep, a global educational consulting company with offices in New York, London, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, discusses in the article below how to go global with your business.
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Kyoko Okutani leads the Women’s World Banking Japan and has helped more than 1,000 women start a business in male-dominated Japan.
How is she doing this? She’s tapping into Japanese women’s desire for fulfillment in life and a greater need to create their own destinies.
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