Japan’s Sample Lab has opened a marketing cafe in Tokyo’s Shibuya district targeting affluent young women with product samples with a view to turning them into opinion formers. The concept will also be rolled out in the cities of Nagoya,
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Securing credit can be a headache for a small business owner, especially when she is trying to make her business global. With payments lagging in a recessionary economy and exchange rates in constant flux, small business owners need to smooth out cash flow with credit lines and loans.
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Here’s a thoughtful piece written by Jennifer Yip (search by her name) who is a consultant for the World Bank Group’s Doing Business team. Opening passage:
At an age when mothers admonish their children to finish their brussels sprouts,
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You have a business but do you have and are you communicating a vision about taking it global? According to Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD who conducted a recent groundbreaking study of executive leadership and gender:
Vision is generally believed to be the most critical leadership component and perhaps the main factor separating manager from leader.
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TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), founded in Silicon Valley in 1992 by entrepreneurs and professionals with roots in the Indus region, announced the launch of India’s first women’s entrepreneurship platform called TiE Stree Shakti (TSS).
TSS is a forum for women entrepreneurs to create trust-based partnerships through active networks.
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A study conducted for the Foundation of Canadian Women Entrepreneurs* by Vancouver-based Service-Growth Consultants, Inc. shed light on six tips to help women entrepreneurs export:
1. Be realistic.
2. Stay focused and plan ahead.
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Interesting post by Sarah Iqbal on gender over at the PSD Blog – The World Bank Group. She attempts to answer the complex question: Why don’t women rule the world?
Find out Sarah’s answer here.
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I think that one of the best things that we from the developed world can do for the poor is to help cultivate an entrepreneurial environment for them.
That’s what Moses Lee says over at the NextBillion.net in his entry Are the Poor Really Entrepreneurial?
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What does it take to make a successful female entrepreneur in the developing world? If any entity can come up with an answer, it is The World Bank and part of the solution is that women need a relatively effective way to save money.
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Meet the bold, the fearless and the restless (and that includes YOU!). Women-owned firms comprise forty percent of all firms in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. They have implemented imaginative strategies to launch and expand their businesses,
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