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Twittering their productivity away
October 09, 2008
As more and more social networking, blogs, twitters and other ways to "connect" are pushed onto the market, it's harder than ever to keep team members focused. How can you ensure your priorities stay their priorities?
Is your company sales pitch costing you customers?
December 02, 2008
Nearly every entrepreneur knows the importance of their elevator pitch, yet an extraordinary number of them fail this simple test. Your pitch could be costing you investors, customers, employees and media attention just when you need them more than ever. Consider this actual example:
Women entrepreneurs are "it"
August 06, 2008
Although women are starting businesses at twice the rate of the national average, the reality is that companies with women CEOs only attracted a paltry 2.9% of available venture funding last year, according to VentureOne, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, down from 4.52% in 2006. In fact, this percentage has dropped nearly every year from a high-point of 7.55% in 2002. To get behind why women-owned businesses have received so little venture funding, we talked to Sharon Vosmek, CEO of Astia (www.astia.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting women-led companies with access to equity funding, achieving and maintaining high growth, and leadership mentoring. To be fundable, a business must show a significant growth opportunity – and here’s where Vosmek says women literally fall short, as they tend to be much more conservative on their estimates of market opportunity than their male counterparts. Learn why.
Sisters are doing it for themselves
July 23, 2008
Statistics show that women have been backsliding with regard to pay, board seats and corporate officer posts over the past 3 years. The assumed reason is that more women are dropping out of the workforce to become moms - But it seems the real reason is they're choosing to work for themselves -
