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New Executive Director believes more female business owners will expand Texas’ economy Texas Woman’s University today appointed a serial entrepreneur and former Fortune 50 executive, Tina Mims, to lead the state’s first university center designed to position Texas as No. 1 in America for entrepreneurial women. This new strategic venture is called “The Business Hub for Entrepreneurial Women, Powered by TWU.” Mims, who holds multiple business administration degrees and a doctorate in marketing, has taught the past decade at TWU’s School of Management. Senator Nelson added, “Dr. Mims is an excellent choice to lead this new center. Not only is she well qualified academically, but she spent more than 20 years in the private sector and knows what

Technology is a machine, constantly evolving and spreading like wildfire across the world. Besides increasing the quality of personal life, technology can save businesses a great amount of time and money. Since making money in the shortest amount of time is a business’s number one goal, it is crucial for businesses to implement technology in order to remain competitive. This demand for technology not only helps stimulate the growth of new jobs in technology-based career fields, but it also reduces and eliminates the number of people needed for non-technical careers, a career field heavily favored by women. As technology-based careers begin to develop and grow, women will

On September 20, Brian Bordainick spoke at the Meijer lecture. Brian walked up to the stage and his appearance surprised me. First and foremost, he didn’t fit my image of what a successful entrepreneur would look like. He was a young man with messy hair, dressed in a casual button down shirt and jeans. His demeanor in the introduction was informal at best. As the talk began to start, it became clear he just wanted to share his story with us. He told us the three points that he believed were important in creating a business. These were as follows: greatness is possible, everyone wants to be part of something bigger than themselves, and that the idea that “Everything is special” is untrue. As he began his story starting I honestly could not begin to make a connection with food. He started

Silicon Valley is a space in Northern California, which is a main center for numerous web-based corporations, high-tech manufacturing, and innovators. It is a high expense area to live in therefore is one of the most expensive areas in the United States. The ethnographic subject is a woman who is a computer engineer uses the space to commute and works in the technology industry. In a positive outlook she is creating new space for women by encouraging other women to join this particular site just by having her body being present there, reconstructing the space with more gender balance and diversity. The subject can also influence and change the fixed mindset of men in the field who are socially cultured to look down on women in the of technology.

He was much shorter than I expected when I met him; standing at only five feet three inches. I had woken up that morning with a feeling of anticipation. Hundreds of questions bounced around in my head and I was finally going to meet the guy whom I hoped had all the answers. I quickly got dressed in my form fitting suit, ate breakfast, and then eagerly started the thirty minute drive to Folsom. That afternoon I had lunch with Mr.Lokesh Sikaria. Mr.Sikaria is one of the most prominent business men in the Sacramento technology industry and I reached out to him because I was extremely interested in pursuing a similar career. Mr.Sikaria, who received a master’s in electrical engineering and a minor in business from the University of California Berkeley, initiated his career at a small consulting firm. He quickly moved to a chief operator position at Rapidigm Inc where he controlled millions of dollars in company revenue. A few years later, he started his own IT consulting firm, which was wildly successful, and now operates a venture capital firm in Folsom California. There is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Sikaria is very successful personally, but what really makes him stand out is his ability to be successful personally and help the community at the same time. The ability to do this is impressive and should be imitated by everyone in order to have a greater impact on the world.

Robin Chase is the co-founder of a business called Zipcar, which is the largest car sharing company in the world (robinchase.org). She is often considered as one of the best in the transportation field due to her major successes not only on Zipcar, but other companies called Buzzcar and GoLoco. Mrs. Chase not only creates transportation companies, but she also builds the network for these companies through Veniam (robinchase.org). Mrs. Chase is a graduate of Wellesley College and then went on to MIT’s Sloan School of Management (robinchase.org). Like many other businesses, Zipcar was not an immediate success as Mrs. Chase expected. The expected revenues from the

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Women supporting women has been a trend since The “Lean In” Movement began in 2013, as a result of Sheryl Sandberg’s book with the same title. Sandberg’s words have women everywhere re-evaluating their leadership approach and role in the corporate world, by addressing challenges head on, and focusing on what they can do rather than what is presumed they can’t. The movement has led to a revolution in which women have provided one another support through community, trust, and circles—small groups that meet monthly to encourage one another in an atmosphere of confidentiality and trust, with the ultimate goal of changing the trajectory of women and creating a better world for everyone.

Hello and welcome to the Jacque M. mentorship program, called L.A.W. This program was created to connect young ambitious women by providing them with the tools necessary to accomplish any business goal. Now more than ever are we seeing more female entrepreneurs, and it is imperative we help to maintain this trend.

The Build-A-Bear Workshop company is seen as one the small business that is ever growing and profitable in the service sector. Despite the society’s negative view and prejudice about women’s ability to succeed, Maxine Clark is the prime achiever who had brought her talent and skill in the world of business, and proved her critics wrong who thought otherwise the idea was not viable. But with zeal of commitment and vision, Clark went on to build a multimillion business retail.

In the last year and a half, there has been a tremendous outcome with the program; over 90 women have been trained with great achievement. Seventy of them have either started their own company, become managers, or bookkeepers. The other 20 have gone back to school to get degrees in marketing, finance, or a related field. In the past year, 35 women have started their own business in all sorts of areas from cafes, bow shops, coffee shops, bookstores, and so many other wonderful places. The U.S. Bureau of Labor claims that 75% of new businesses survive the first year and 69% survive the second. So far all of the new businesses are staying strong and successful. Since many of these women are doing this for the first time they do not have a lot

Suzanne Shank grew up in Savannah, GA, when she was 10years old she entered an essay contest on why I love my city, and she won the elementary school category. Because of the love for her city she never dreamed of leaving her hometown. She was very intelligent in math and science; therefore, her high school teacher encouraged her to study engineering in college. After graduating from Georgia Tech in 1983, she started working for a local construction company and it was there that she realized that she wanted to be in management. It was her love for mathematics’ and the encouragement of her high school teacher that made Suzanne realize that her passion was not engineering. After working there for several years Suzanne decided to go to Wharton School for her MBA in Management. She found her first job on Wall Street after receiving her MBA but she still had not found her niche.

Heidi’s networking strategy with the “New Valley Girls” have many similarities but also many differences. The similarities are the social events that Heidi holds in her households which attract the A-List of Silicon Valley and providing a platform for these successful people to liaise out of the business environment. Many of the “New Valley Girls” are also very powerful and well connected. The main difference is Heidi’s strategy does not only involve powerful people, she also maintains her relationship with unknowns and upcoming entrepreneurs as she understands “you never know who these people may become.”

This report is about four different case studies from Pech and Turner’s book Making waves (2014). In this report many things will be discussed starting from three dimensions of entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial intensity grid, innovative lessons from the cases, recommendation for the organizations and the difficulties for other firms to adopt these

The founder also takes the time to listen to those that have been in the business for longer periods of time and have similar organizations. Though she has not received any formal training when it comes to being a manager or