Perhaps it’s women’s natural instinct to nurture or maybe high-impact entrepreneurs know that you can’t sustain rapid growth without employees who deliver excellent products and customer service. It’s both, according to Marsha Firestone, President of the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), which compiled a list of the 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/led Companies in North America sponsored by American Express OPEN, it’s both.

How to Succeed in Business: 5 Lessons from Successful Women

by Geri Stengel on Mar 29, 2012 - 12:20am

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When you start digging, you find out all sorts of interesting things, both good and bad. I’ve been researching the success factors that unite highly successful women entrepreneurs. Along the way, I’ve learned about ways in which small businesses can help themselves move up the ladder of success, how focusing on work/life fit can help a company grow and, yes, the factors that help women entrepreneurs succeed as well as pitfalls to beware of.

Women’s Ways Can Nourish Business Growth

by Geri Stengel on Mar 8, 2012 - 12:20am

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I’m as concerned as the next person about the failure of women-led businesses to thrive. As the Kauffman Foundation has found, women-owned businesses are an untapped economic resource. So it’s a pleasure to find a book that does two things: helps women entrepreneurs and points out that women don’t need to become more manly in order to succeed.

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Let’s Give Women Entrepreneurs the R-E-S-P-E-C-T and Support They Deserve

by Geri Stengel on Oct 25, 2011 - 12:20am

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I have to agree with Adelaide Lancaster’s blog last week.

Women entrepreneurs don’t get the respect they deserve. They have their own approach to starting and growing businesses and there is nothing wrong with our choices, but I do think we’re not unleashing the full potential of women entrepreneurship.

Women Entrepreneurs: Under-utilized Drivers of Economic Growth

by Geri Stengel on Oct 13, 2011 - 12:20am

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I thought I saw a problem and a recent report from the Kauffman Foundation confirmed it: Women are under-represented in high-growth, job creating entrepreneurship.

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Why Aren’t Entrepreneurial American Women Among the World’s Power Brokers?

by Geri Stengel on Sep 8, 2011 - 12:20am

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With all my talk about entrepreneurship being the way to close the gender gap, I was struck by the lack of American female entrepreneurs on the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful Women.

Collaboration, Social Media: They're Happening Already

by Geri Stengel on Jan 18, 2011 - 12:11am

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Synergy: That's the word that comes to mind when I read about the new micro-finance program to help women businesses here and abroad that brings together the knowledge and skills of a nonprofit, a for-profit, social media, and public figures who generate a lot of buzz.