by Laurel Delaney, President, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (WEGG)
In a manifesto I authored in 2004, “Shaking Things Up. Making Things Happen,” I wrote, “In the future, there will be two kinds of enterprises: those that go global and those that die.” Companies should be going global,
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In recent years, the rate of women entrepreneurs has been growing at a percentage at least double that of their male counterparts. And as Elaine Pofeldt for CNBC says, “the Golden Age for women entrepreneurs has finally begun. The stars have aligned to help trigger the trend as robust ecosystems churn out enterprising females equipped with inspiration,
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My friend, colleague and entrepreneur dynamo, Melinda Emerson, kicks off the 6th annual Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a menu of events around the world that bring together millions of people through web-based and live activities, by supporting women entrepreneurs and their essential contributions to our world economic health and well-being.
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We posted about this fabulous article on our sister site, The Global Small Business Blog. Women continue to embrace entrepreneurship and forge relationships across borders. Forming global partnerships is a way to expand internationally.
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According to a new report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which tracks entrepreneurial activity in 67 countries, women lead in entrepreneurship in seven countries.
Women entrepreneurship varies widely around the world, however. In Zambia, for example, 40 percent of women are engaged in entrepreneurial activity.
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For the first time in 13 years, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study of 59 economies shows that women are creating businesses at a greater rate than men in three economies and in four others, the rates are nearly equal.
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According to the “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2006-2007 National Entrepreneurial Assessment for the United States of America,” conducted by
Babson College and Baruch College, while U.S. entrepreneurship was 50% higher than the average of all other high-income (GEM) countries and equals the rate in low-and middle-income (GEM) countries,
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