Welcome to Women’s History Month 2024! The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day Celebration on March 8th is “Invest in women: Accelerate progress,” which is second nature to all of us at wegg®. We have always been, and will always be,
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Welcome to Women’s History Month 2024! The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day Celebration on March 8th is “Invest in women: Accelerate progress,” which is second nature to all of us at wegg®. We have always been, and will always be,
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Please join us on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 10 AM CT (11 AM ET) when we announce and celebrate the winner of The Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership®. Register (n/c) to attend this fun, empowering and inspiring virtual event!
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We would like to wish our wegg® family, and the entrepreneurship world at large, a profound and illuminating Black History Month 2024! It is invaluable to acknowledge, learn, and reflect on the vast history and expansive future of African Americans in our country. This is crucial in order to be committed and attentive to increasing the equity of opportunities and wealth available to African Americans all year,
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For more than 35 years, I’ve [Laurel Delaney] been running a successful global business, evolving it from contract-manufacturing food products for export, to importing products for sale to major retail chains, to representing USA-based companies to help them export their products worldwide.
With all this hard-earned experience,
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The turn of a new year is an exciting opportunity to reaffirm and recommit to the guiding principles and lessons that have been foundational to your entrepreneurial journey. Whether you are setting intentions, resolutions, or goals for 2024, let this be your sign that everything you dream and wish for is attainable.
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As I [Laurel Delaney] wrote in this thought piece:
“Never in the history of the world has the entrepreneurial and small business spirit — the spirit of perseverance and determination — been more alive or in a STRONGER position to reach out to the world for business.
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In the aftermath of the bustling annual shopping days of Black Friday, Small-Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, entrepreneurs are encouraged to continue the upward momentum that was generated this past weekend. If the days following Thanksgiving 2023 were not as gainful as you had hoped for your SME,
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As of last Thursday, November 9th, applications are now open for the 2024 Stacy’s Rise Project which will award five women-owned businesses, “a $25,000 CAD grant and access to a mentorship program with leadership from PepsiCo Foods Canada and Frito Lay North America,”
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“Our male counterparts with less traction were getting considerably more funding. If there was even one other man in the room with us, a junior employee, the VCs would speak to him rather than us. We had to show more results with less money. We really had to hustle.”
-Michelle Songy,
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One week ago today, October 9th, was recognized as Indigenous People’s Day, and one of the most notable and inspiring initiatives that contribute to this commemorative day all year long is Project DreamCatcher. This “no-cost business development program,” is a collaboration between the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation and Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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