According to Aisha Natu, who writes a weekly column in a local Saudi Arabia paper, current regulations and bureaucracy is hampering the development of businesses run by women in Saudi Arabia. She says, “Women don’t only want to be seen,
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Changes are a coming for women. More women are becoming entrepreneurs. More women are expanding their businesses globally. More women are thinking differently and bigger about their global potential. More women are connecting with other women in different parts of the world to build their businesses.
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Why has Forbes referred to 2014 as the break-out year for female entrepreneurs? Reasons are aplenty:
For example, nearly 20 percent of early stage “angel” funding was invested in women-led businesses in 2012 – a growth of 40 percent from the previous year.
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Below is a great interview that Jeremy Quittner, Staff Writer for Inc. and Inc.com conducted with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at the recent Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Morocco. They talk about immigration reform, why female entrepreneurs are critical for building a stronger economy,
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In Manila, Bacolod, Tacloban, Pampanga, Batangas and Davao, more than 400,000 women small business owners participated in Sari-Saring Happiness Day. Coca-Cola (part of the global 5by20 Program) launched it to brighten Christmas all over the Philippines.
“Christmas is the most celebrated season in the Philippines,
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If you are based in Yorkshire (Northern England), it’s your lucky week on these upcoming programs. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), starting on Monday, (11/10), will offer expert insight into global trading opportunities.
Organized by the Forward Ladies,
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The 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, in its fifth year, will convene thousands of participants on November 19-21 in Marrakech, Morocco, and will highlight the impact of technology on modern entrepreneurship. The 2014 Summit takes place during Global Entrepreneurship Week,
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British entrepreneur Sara Murray, 45, has been named one of Fortune magazine’s ‘Ten Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs 2014’ for her creation of buddi, the tagging system originally designed to locate lost children.
Now used by more than 100 local authorities in the UK to help monitor the vulnerable,
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Recently, the U.S. Department of State announced a new partnership between Ernst & Young (EY) and the Bureau of Information Resource Management’s Office of eDiplomacy at the Department of State outlining a public-private partnership that will directly benefit women entrepreneurs in four Latin American countries as part of the Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas Initiative (WEAmericas).
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At the Clinton Global Initiative’s 10th annual meeting in New York on September 23rd, Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba Group (pictured), says:
“I admire Chinese women because a large number of them are both responsible mothers and successful entrepreneurs,”
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