It’s always an honor to have our esteemed colleague, long-time small business journalist and small business advocate Rieva Lesonsky ask you to contribute to an article she is writing on trends in 2025. I [Laurel Delaney] jumped at the opportunity, so did fellow wegg® Board member and Founder/CEO of Infortal Worldwide Candice Tal – along with five other leading experts in business.
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Entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a key driver of economic growth and societal value creation (Nziku, Ramadani, & Dana, 2022). Across the globe, it stands as the backbone of economic development, with entrepreneurs playing a crucial role in job creation, unemployment reduction, and overall economic progress (Nziku &
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Disaggregated economic data is information about the economy broken down into categories such as race, gender, age and other variables. The Bureau of Labor Statistics didn’t make it possible to disaggregate employment data by both race and gender until 1972. So, how do economists find out what the economy looked like before disaggregated data?
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Even though men have a significant advantage in raising funds, companies founded or co-founded by women do better along several dimensions than companies started by men.
Data indicates women founders outperform their male counterparts because they tend to build businesses that generate more revenues,
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For those who missed Dr. Natalie King’s 5/1/24 wegginar®, “Harmonizing Dual Careers: Thriving in Corporate While Leading a Global Startup,” you can access it free of charge here, thanks to wegg’s generous and supportive sponsors as noted in the graphic.
During her presentation,
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For more than 35 years, I’ve [Laurel Delaney] been running a successful global business, evolving it from contract-manufacturing food products for export, to importing products for sale to major retail chains, to representing USA-based companies to help them export their products worldwide.
With all this hard-earned experience,
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As I [Laurel Delaney] wrote in this thought piece:
“Never in the history of the world has the entrepreneurial and small business spirit — the spirit of perseverance and determination — been more alive or in a STRONGER position to reach out to the world for business.
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We are forever proud of our wegg Board member Kati Suominen who is one of the co-authors on this insightful report: APEC Micro and Small Enterprises: Digitizing Toward a Resilient and Sustainable Future, published by Visa Economic Empower Institute (VEEI).
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wegg® women have been operating their businesses for a long time without borders. We know the value in it yet we can always learn more. So can you.
In a new report published by The World Bank, “Working Without Borders: The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work,”
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Many countries have implemented policies to support women entrepreneurs in their export journey, ensure that trade opportunities are available to them, and lessen barriers to trade and international expansion that particularly impact women. USA-based wegg, our organization, is a major driver behind educating women on how to export.
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