Out with the Year of the Galloping Horse (that’s my year by the way), and in with the Year of the Sheep, timid, with new hopes, new dreams and new aspirations. What does the Year of the Sheep have in store for women?
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Anisha Singh, Founder and CEO of MyDala.com, provides five pointers for women entrepreneurs in the making:
- Be proud to be a woman entrepreneur — stand out rather than be a part of the crowd.
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Below is a great interview that Jeremy Quittner, Staff Writer for Inc. and Inc.com conducted with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at the recent Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Morocco. They talk about immigration reform, why female entrepreneurs are critical for building a stronger economy,
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In Manila, Bacolod, Tacloban, Pampanga, Batangas and Davao, more than 400,000 women small business owners participated in Sari-Saring Happiness Day. Coca-Cola (part of the global 5by20 Program) launched it to brighten Christmas all over the Philippines.
“Christmas is the most celebrated season in the Philippines,
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I had to read this twice to understand what was happening. On August 24th, New Yorkers – men and women alike – ditched their shirts and joined people around the world in celebration of “International Go Topless Day.”
According to the New York Post:
Around 200 bare-chested men and women chanted “Free your Breasts!
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Jackie Stenson (L) and Diana Jue (pictured) bring social-impact technology to the populations who need it through their company Essmart Global. This was a dream they nurtured during their undergraduate years at MIT. They have been nominated as the Asia-Pacific finalists for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards and the only women from India on this list.
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The timing has never been better for businesswomen to get out of their own backyards and transition from local, regional or niche-market players into global players. Here’s why.
Women Are Ready to Take on the World
The key: It is evident that through export activities,
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As a woman business owner, are you cautious when it comes to taking risks? You are not alone. Many business women are but when big risks lead to big rewards, female leaders must develop a different attitude if they are going to increase their growth prospects.
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Is lack of confidence holding women back? Authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman (pictured) make a good argument in The Atlantic that it is:
Even as our understanding of confidence expanded, however, we found that our original suspicion was dead-on: there is a particular crisis for women—a vast confidence gap that separates the sexes.
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Eleven women from India overcame hardships by becoming entrepreneurs. Sakubai Lokhande, is one such entrepreneur, who comes from a tiny village in Maharashtra and started making brooms and ropes. She says:
“I come from a very poor background and hit the bed many a night on an empty stomach.”
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