Women in Business Can Thank H.R. 5050

by Joy Lutes Landmark legislation that opened doors dates back only 30 years Thirty years ago, some U.S. states had laws that precluded women from obtaining a business loan without a male relative to cosign for them — even if that male were an underage son.  The...

8 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Can Use Crowdfunding Successfully

Kerry Hannon, Contributor, Forbes.comNext Avenue: Where grown-ups keep growing  Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. It takes money to make money, as the saying goes. For female entrepreneurs, that money can be elusive when starting a business or...

What is H.R. 5050 – The Women's Business Ownership Act

BY LAHLE WOLFE Updated April 20, 2018 Thank You, NAWBO for Supporting Female Entrepreneurs H.R. 5050 – The Women’s Business Ownership Act was passed in 1988 with the help of the National Association Women Business Owners (NAWBO). H.R. 5050 addressed the...

The Psychological Reasons Women Fall In Love With Entrepreneurship

  Julia Novakovich  Follow  | Wednesday, 09 May 2018 14:30 (EST) There are many different reasons people become entrepreneurs: having a great idea, being ready to chart a new career course, and wanting to take more risks than the corporate world allows are just a few....

The National Women’s Business Council’s Latest Report on Women Business Owners’ Access to Markets

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) MAY 10, 2018 The National Women’s Business Council today released a new research report, analyzing obstacles that women business owners face in their access to customer markets:Understanding the Landscape: Access to Markets for Women Entrepreneurs....

These 7 Organizations Help Women Business Owners Run Their Businesses

Julia Novakovich  Follow  | Wednesday, 02 May 2018 14:01 (EST) Being a woman business owner offers particular challenges that are not faced by male entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs traditionally face systematic discrimination when looking for venture capital or...

Where are the Resources for Women Owned Businesses?

Julie Bawden Davis Writer/Author/Publisher/Speaker, Garden Guides Press Women-owned businesses run into a funding and financing gap that can impede their success. Thankfully, there are quite a few resources available to them.  Women’s History Month may be coming...

How Maria Sharapova Celebrates Being A Power Woman

BY MARIA SHARAPOVA  |  HAUTE AMBASSADORS, NEWS  |  APRIL 24, 2018 When I first started out as an entrepreneur, just about six years ago with the launch of my candy company, Sugarpova, I had no true sense of the great challenges ahead: the learning curve, the ups and...

Congress must pass new legislation to support women-owned businesses: NAWBO

By Kathy Warnick      (Apr 25, 2018, Columbus OH) Ohio is home to more than 305,000 small businesses owned by women, according to the latest Survey of Business Owners by the Census Bureau. Hundreds of thousands of women own their own firms and contribute to their Ohio...