Female Entrepreneurship Archives

StartupNation Originals: A Drink With Hillary Sawchuk

If you could have a drink with anyone, who would it be? In her web series, A Drink With, Hillary Sawchuk sits down with today's most interesting and influential industry leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities and artists...

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June 18, 2019

25 Intriguing Facts About the State of Female Entrepreneurship

Female entrepreneurship has made great strides over the past 20 years, but we’ve got miles left to go, and many challenges to face along the way. In spite of these challenges, women entrepreneurs report a...

byCarole Alalouf

July 23, 2018

Carrie Green on Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset and the Importance of Community [Radio]

Today, Carrie Green is a published author (of the book "She Means Business," an Amazon top seller in New Business Enterprises) and founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, which boasts 400,000 members. When she started...

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April 1, 2017

Women in Business: It’s Not About Doing it All, But Doing it Well

Today is International Women’s Day, and there are plenty of reasons to celebrate some of the great achievements made by women in business. As a female entrepreneur myself, it’s been a fantastic year, and a very...

byHalima Khatun

March 8, 2017

5 Reasons Why Women-Owned Businesses are Thriving

Since the end of the Great Recession in 2010, minority- and women-owned businesses have been steadily increasing. Although average earnings for businesses owned by women still tend to lag behind that of men, they are...

byMargarita Hakobyan

March 8, 2017

Female Founders: 3 Ways They are Marketing Authentically

Many consumer-facing businesses aim to fill a need or solve a problem for their customers. In some instances, the business concept stems from a personal need that hits close to home for the founder or a...

byJulia Ford-Carther

November 1, 2016

Incentives for Women-Owned Businesses

“This is a man’s, a man’s, a man’s world,” sang soul musician James Brown in 1966. This observation is still disturbingly relevant today—especially through an economic lens. To help reverse traditional “androcentric” (or, male-centered) policies,...

byBrette Sember

September 20, 2016

Female Entrepreneurs and the Fight for Funding

“If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” New York has always been attractive to the self-made man, but it could now be the premier destination for the self-made woman, too. The Big...

byHeather Landau

August 30, 2016

Hollywood Makeup Artist Turns To Natural Beauty With Lipstick Angels

Achieving success in Hollywood requires an Angel Renata Helfman, Hollywood makeup artist and founder of the nonprofit Lipstick Angels, grew up as a self-proclaimed “beauty junkie,” without any expectation of turning her hobby into a...

byKatelyn Gendron

November 19, 2014

Just the Facts: Female Entrepreneurship

In honor of the upcoming National Women’s History Month, we are celebrating women-owned businesses in the U.S. – all 8.6 million of them! Get ready to be inspired and impressed! (Tweet this!) Women-owned businesses are...

byMelissa Fisher

March 1, 2014

Women Entrepreneurship Growing Worldwide

There are more than 126 million active women entrepreneurs in 67 national economies worldwide, according to the recently released Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Women's Report. That’s just slightly less than the population of Japan. In addition,...

byMelissa Fisher

August 15, 2013

I”ll Tell Two People and They”ll Tell Two People

Brandi, who sells big and tall men's clothing, was an inspiring guest on the StartupNation radio show talking about her EBay store. My fellow blogger, Joel, also wrote about how she created her company so...

byJoan Isabella

September 26, 2005