Our first WEGG webinar, “Getting Started in Exporting: Ready Your Business for Growth” was a wonderful success. You can access the recording here.
Up next month on February 3rd from 10:00 a.m.
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One of the strategies for Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC) BizWanita-i, is to focus on entrepreneurship, especially women entrepreneurs. CGC claims to power SMEs in Malaysia.
Johari [Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani] said CGC’s facilities like BizWanita-i would help women entrepreneurs obtain loans from the financier.
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The recent Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE) Ranking report found that “the trend for female entrepreneurs is significantly up,” with the number of new businesses started by women rising by 80 per cent in the past three years. While startups in the past were sprung forth nearly entirely from places like Silicon Valley and Boston,
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In Australia’s startup ecosystem, only 4.3% of startups are owned by women. Despite the fact that companies owned by women bring in 12% higher revenue on average, only 3-5% of female owned businesses receive venture capital.
What’s the reason for Aussie women not pursuing high-growth companies at an equal rate as their male counterparts?
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Sydney network Heads Over Heels is designed to rival “the boys club.”
Every few months, 70 high-powered executives meet for Heads Over Heels. They listen to business pitches from female entrepreneurs, then break into small, revolving “huddles,”
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Alicia Robb (pictured), senior fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, attended her first ever Startup Weekend Women’s Edition in South America. Startup Weekend is a program of Up Global that starts on a Friday night with roughly 100 people in a room,
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CrowdRise is a unique blend of crowdfunding, social networking, contests, and other good stuff. It is about giving back, raising lots of money for great causes and having a whole lot of fun while doing it.
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Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is working on a new project to benefit Coke and empower female entrepreneurs around the world.
Coke is teaming up with the International Finance Corp. (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group,
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Kickstarter is becoming the cool way for projects to raise money.
Take musician Amanda Palmer, she managed to raise more than $1 million for a new album through a Kickstarter project, making it the seventh project to break the million-dollar mark in the crowdfunding platform’s history.
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In the article below, this question was posed to Jane Wurwand, founder of Dermalogica, a multi-million dollar business with offices in over 50 countries around the world:
If you were counseling a young entrepreneur just starting their business today,
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