Attention all womenablers – updated intelligence on the state of women-owned businesses in the US is now available. The 2012 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, commissioned by American Express OPEN and prepared by Womenable, reveals that: As of 2012, it is estimated that there are over 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States, generating [...]
Posts Tagged ‘women’s enterprise’
New Statistics on Economic Clout of Women-Owned Firms in US
Posted in business, statistics, women business owners, women's business development, women's business ownership, women-owned business, tagged statistics, women's business development, women's enterprise, women-owned business, Womenable on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Navigating the Federal Procurement Maze Pays Off for Many Women Entrepreneurs
Posted in business, federal procurement, women business owners, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women's business research studies, tagged American Express OPEN, procurement, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on March 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Accessing new markets is an important avenue for business growth for all businesses, large and small. For many women business owners, federal agencies provide an excellent opportunity for market expansion and business growth. As many are aware, the U.S. government is the world’s largest single purchaser of goods and services, spending just over $535 billion [...]
Pearls from New GEM Women’s Report
Posted in women business owners, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women's business research studies, women-owned business, tagged Babson College, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, statistics, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new report on trends in women’s entrepreneurship, drawing on the multi-country Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys, has just been published by a team of researchers from Babson College. The GEM 2010 Women’s Report draws on data collected from surveys of over 175,000 adults in 59 countries, including 14,000 women business owners. As in previous GEM [...]
A Womenabling Manifesto
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, political advocacy, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, during Global Entrepreneurship Week, I kicked off the FastTrac Global Women’s Summit at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City with an opening address focused on the key global and domestic trends in women’s entrepreneurship today. So, naturally, I touched on some of the most recent knowledge from the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global [...]
Ruby – a Gem of a Women’s Entrepreneurship Program
Posted in business, women's business development, women's enterprise development, women's leadership, tagged business, corporate women's markets, Global Banking Alliance for Women, Ruby Connection, Westpac Bank, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, Womenable on October 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m just back from Oz, where I joined the board of a wonderful organization – the Global Banking Alliance for Women. Their annual summit, which brought together nearly 100 executives from financial institutions and financial inclusion NGOs from (by my count) 18 countries, was hosted this year in Sydney, Australia by one of the four [...]