Christopher Schroeder at PandoDaily will be sharing his stories over the next two weeks (don’t miss them) on the changing Middle East and it involves rockin’ women entrepreneurs.
They are running platforms for Arabic translation out of Beirut,
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We all know that Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the Acumen Fund is no ordinary soul. Through her company she has changed the way the world tackles poverty.
Below she shares her top five secrets comprising of connectivity,
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Ella Peinovich (pictured lower right) is one of the three founders of Kenyan-based SasaAfrica, a women owned and operated social enterprise — offering an innovative e-commerce platform for female artisans, vendors and entrepreneurs in Africa to create sustainable micro-enterprises using mobile phones.
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Firms doing business in multilingual societies need to decide what languages to use for communications, product packaging and advertising. Rule of thumb: Go for the simplest of words, express one idea in each sentence and avoid culture-specific references (e.g., he sings like Frank Sinatra).
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Esther Dyson (pictured), a longtime angel investor in technology startups, discusses what makes a successful entrepreneur and what doesn’t. Learn about her former company: EDventure.com and her new interest here.
Read: Angel Investor Esther Dyson on the Traits of Rock Start Tech Leaders
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
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The Economist Intelligence Unit created the Women’s Economic Opportunity (WEO) Index. The index measures progress in the economic advancement of women and aims to look beyond gender disparities to the underlying factors affecting women’s access to economic opportunity.
Women drive economic growth.
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What can be done for all the women who struggle with inequalities right now?
In a world where women hold less than 20 percent of all legislative seats, 70 percent of the poorest people — those who live on less than $1.25 a day — are women,
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According to The Atlantic article by Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Can’t Have It All,” we’ve come a long way baby – or have we?
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman,
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Women are creating alternatives to violence and poverty in their lives. They use strategies for change that start at the household and community, and then connect to the global level, so they can confront the crippling impacts of globalization.
Read it all here:
Globalization Head-On: Women Confronting Poverty
Mary Ann Manahan (pictured at right),
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Rich Karlgaard (more interesting bio here), publisher of Forbes, writes in The Wall Street Journal that our future is more than Facebook.
He goes on further to say:
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