The alternative title to this post is, “How to fake like you’re a big company.” Let’s get right into it since I’m on vacation in Vermont. One little story, then onto the top 7. Click here to read on.
I. WHAT‘s WORKING? Let‘s start on a positive note. Doing my goals is working. I am accomplishing them, mainly due to the fact that they are hovering over me like a school marm tapping her watch. It prevents them from eking out into the abyss of 100%. Dennis Hightower, former big-time Disney exec, advised “Good general managers must be able to make decisions with between 40 and 70% information.” So,… Read More »Building a Million Dollar Business Part Time: #4 The Productive Amoeba
Can it be done? Follow a behind-the-scenes look at building The Hot Mommas Project. Click here to see the first post.
There are many foundations offering awards for established entrepreneurs (read: Ernst and Young, Am Ex, Eileen Fisher, others). Below, however, is a nice monetary prize for a university level plan. (Also see Association for Corporate Growth hosting a student business plan competition for $10k in DC in 2008). The Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition The Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition is an international business plan competition that allows university students from around the world… Read More »Queens Business Plan Competition
An article in Inc. Online today reveals differences between male and female entrepreneurs. And, women have less time to spend on their ventures vs. male counterparts. This has to do with domestic demands on their time. This is not a new concept, and it has been demonstrated in other studies by Catalyst, but…the point is not going away. Women have to DO MORE WITH LESS. Very excited for the results… Read More »It’s Official: Women Entrepreneurs Have Less Time
In the greater Cincinnati/Kentucky area for a conference with my husband. Went to a great spa, Sableux. Lori – my manicurist – embodies the reasons why women are such incredible entrepreneurs. Creativity – Lori has a fabulous idea for a mixed spa/retail format store. I love the idea, in large part because a spa/retail concept for women helps answer what I consider one of the world's large injustices: What is… Read More »Manicurist and Mentor
Entrepreneurs are crazy according to a book suggested to me by best friend and big-time social entreprener Julie Silard Kantor. John D. Gartner, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, discusses this hypothesis in his new book The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness And (A Lot of) Success In America. He claims the US has more hypomanics than other countries and, gasp, that many of our beloved leaders… Read More »Entrepreneurs. Basically, we’re nuts.