“Make excellence your brand.”
— Oprah Winfrey
August is nationally recognized as Black Business Month, which wegg® is eager to celebrate and support every year! Black Business Month provides a well-deserved spotlight on African-American entrepreneurs and their enterprises. In addition to recognizing the achievements of Black business owners,
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wegg® honors and supports Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, which takes place this Friday, June, 19th. This day of recognition is an important annual commemoration and is “recognized as the nation’s second independence day .” Simran Srivastava writes in her article, “8 Companies That Celebrate Juneteenth and Inspire Action,”
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There are many exciting and special ways to honor and recognize Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month in 2026! With regard to entrepreneurship, data from the U.S. Census Bureau reports that Asian-owned businesses comprise the majority of minority-owned employer and non-employer businesses.
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Empowering women is one of the smartest economic strategies the world is ignoring. We know this to be true through more than a decade of work at Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global.
Data shows that closing the gender gap in work could add $12 trillion to global GDP by 2025.
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“The success of every woman should be an inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.”
– Serena Williams
Happy Black History Month from wegg®! This year is the centennial celebration of this month of recognition,
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“I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”
— Meryl Streep
October 11th marked UNICEF and the UN’s 13th International Day of the Girl Child, which “is a key global moment on which to celebrate girls everywhere,
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A 2025 NBER study finds that female entrepreneurs who launched a startup after a previous failure raised 53.3% less capital than men who were involved in the same failed companies.
This funding gap directly contributes to fewer women becoming serial entrepreneurs—women represent only 4% of founders who start three or more companies,
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The digital economy is reshaping global trade and business, presenting new opportunities for inclusive growth and sustainable development. However, these opportunities are not equally available, particularly for women entrepreneurs who face significant barriers to full participation.
The new study, entitled “Breaking down barriers for women digital entrepreneurs: Insights from Africa,”
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August has begun and Black Business Month 2025 is in full swing once again!
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