Tag: female founders
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5 Ways To Empower Women in Your Local Community
Marsha Ralls is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Washington, DC, and founder of Closed Monday Productions and The Phoenix Wellness Retreat (thephoenixvirginia.com). As a recently named US Regional Ambassador with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization (www.womenseday.org), EO asked Marsha about the importance of supporting women in business. Here’s what she shared. What drives you as a leader?…
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Boy’s Club No More: The Rise of Women’s Co-working Across the South
Once an unconventional concept found only in major metros, co-working is now a mainstay for entrepreneurs and digital nomads around the world. Statista estimates there are about 11,300 co-working spaces worldwide, a number that could reach nearly 14,000 by 2018. And as the number of co-working spaces continues to grow, so, too, does their ability…
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9 Southern Female Founders to Know During Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, so we thought it’d be fitting to honor a few trailblazing female entrepreneurs who are forging new paths in medicine, technology, media, and finance right here in the South. It’s not an easy path to forge, either. Only 9 percent of high-growth tech startups have female founders, an estimated 94…
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Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South
If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook this week, you probably caught some clips of this week’s United#StateOfWomen Summit. The daylong event celebrated what’s already been done by and for women, and took a collective pulse check on our unfinished business. Not surprisingly, one of the key gender equality issues discussed was entrepreneurship and innovation.…
