“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
-Oprah Winfrey
We would like to extend our sincerest and most heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has supported us and shown up for us in our decennial year.
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“Keep looking forward because that is where you’ll find opportunity.”
—Karina Garcia, Influencer and Entrepreneur
Today is the first day of Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month, which will go until October 15th. As the National Museum of the American Latino’s website states,
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Despite Taliban restrictions, Afghan women entrepreneurs are launching small businesses and cooperatives. However, they face struggles accessing capital. According to Reuters, 41% of surveyed female entrepreneurs rely on informal loans to finance their ventures and about 70% must have a male guardian to travel to market.
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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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Yesterday marked the first day of National Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month 2024! The overarching theme for this year’s festivities, acknowledgments, and commemorations is “Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together.” As a women entrepreneurship organization, this month we are giving focus to the Latina business owners who are pioneers for their communities’ …
The wegg® team and Board of Directors is comprised of trailblazers, changemakers, and thought leaders. We jump at the opportunity to showcase and applaud one of our own’s work and prowess. This month, Board Member Kati Suominen published data research findings on the “Uptake,
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The turn of a new year is an exciting opportunity to reaffirm and recommit to the guiding principles and lessons that have been foundational to your entrepreneurial journey. Whether you are setting intentions, resolutions, or goals for 2024, let this be your sign that everything you dream and wish for is attainable.
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In the aftermath of the bustling annual shopping days of Black Friday, Small-Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, entrepreneurs are encouraged to continue the upward momentum that was generated this past weekend. If the days following Thanksgiving 2023 were not as gainful as you had hoped for your SME,
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As of last Thursday, November 9th, applications are now open for the 2024 Stacy’s Rise Project which will award five women-owned businesses, “a $25,000 CAD grant and access to a mentorship program with leadership from PepsiCo Foods Canada and Frito Lay North America,”
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“Our male counterparts with less traction were getting considerably more funding. If there was even one other man in the room with us, a junior employee, the VCs would speak to him rather than us. We had to show more results with less money. We really had to hustle.”
-Michelle Songy,
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