When giving money, give to nonprofits that measure what matters to you. That’s advice from Mary Ellen Iskenderian (pictured), President and CEO, Women’s World Banking.
Watch video here: big think interview
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
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Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, the prime minster of Malaysia, spoke at the Women in Leadership Forum in Abu Dhabi last month and presented data on female entrepreneurial activity.
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The article, “Why aren’t there more foreign female entrepreneurs?” by Priya Alagiri examines the reason why there is a shortage of foreign women entrepreneurs in the United States.
One reason stated is:
The foreign women I interviewed also said that they’ve found it difficult to succeed because the “silicon ceiling” inhibits them from obtaining funding from private investors.
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Photo courtesy: ©Laurel Delaney 2010, “Apple store, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL U.S.A.”
Always giving his best work to the world, Steve Jobs died October 5, 2011 (1955-2011). His death triggered a remembrance to reading a wonderful On Excellence column by Tom Peters in 1993 (I saved all of his hard copy columns back then that were published in the Chicago Tribune –
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Dell™, along with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women and Endeavor, announced it will host the third annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) June 17-19, 2012, in New Delhi,
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Our sister organization, The Global Small Business Blog, under its parent organization GlobeTrade.com, just published their latest monthly e-newsletter, “Borderbuster,” (Issue No. 116 – sign up here) and it is only fitting for this blog post to mention the quote that was featured under the Wind Behind Your Sail section:
“We make a living by what we get,
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Dell is hosting the second annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) on June 5-7, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Agenda here. Speakers here. The event expects to attract more than 100 fellow female business executives,
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Lorraine Hariton (pictured) has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology sector in Silicon Valley.
From 2003 to 2005, Hariton served as President and CEO of Apptera. She served as the CEO of Beatnik from 1999 to 2002.
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