Women hold up half the sky and according to the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Entrepreneurship report, they also are involved in a whole heck of a lot of startups – to the tune of more than 274 million women worldwide.
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wegginar presenters Penny Challender, President, Hayes Manufacturing and Ursula Wegrzynowicz (pictured below), Business Development Specialist, The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) recently discussed “Exporting Uncertainty to Confidence: Featuring Hayes Manufacturing.” At the end of the wegginar, we promised attendees we would follow up and address all their questions.
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“We try to make exporting as accessible to women as email.” – Laurel J. Delaney, President, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® …
Funded by the UK and called “SheTrades Outlook , a new tool is available that tracks the types and prevalence of trade policies designed to promote more trade by women-owned businesses.
The index initially covers 25 countries as wide-ranging as Australia and Canada to Mauritius,
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Whether novel Coronavirus time or not, wegg® continues to keep delivering on export education. Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global is the only U.S. nonprofit organization that focuses exclusively on export education for women SMEs.
Now that we are forced to work from home, it’s an ideal time to catch up on all our amazing virtual education offerings – from starting an e-commerce business,
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“Every morning,” K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch says, “I put on a bracelet that says: ‘She Believed She Could, and So She Did.’ I believe a woman must believe ‘she can’ from the day she opens her business.”
Koch’s U.S.-based K-Tec Systems manufactures and assembles custom-designed thermocouples and wire harnesses.
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What if there was a clinical trial that could save your life, but traveling to the clinic for the procedure is out of the question because leaving home could compromise your health?
This is the kind of scenario that drove Gail Adinamis to found GlobalCare Clinical Trials.
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TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda, acting head of Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) and Jessica Schnabel, global head, Banking on Women, Financial Institutions Group (FIG), the women who are spearheading the development of International Finance Corporations’s (IFC’s) latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for women-owned businesses to help them grow globally,
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We could not help but notice the tie-in to wegg® women concerning the recent movie “Maiden.” How so? The “Maiden” is based on a true story that goes like this:
An all-female crew in a virtually all-male sport challenges the open ocean,
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In the article, Unique Barriers Face Women-Owned Businesses, authors Maribel A. Dano-Luna (pictured left), Senior Researcher, and Rose Ann Camille (pictured right), Research Associate, Asian Institute of Management Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness, discuss the challenges women business owners face when exporting.
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