GC4W Women & Entrepreneurship

Jessica Alba Speaks On Her Mentors

What do Jessica Alba, Rachel Roy, and Lauren Bush all have in common? Well, besides great hair, they all understand the importance of having a professional mentor. In LinkedIn’s latest content series, “The Mentor Who Shaped Me,” each of the business execs look back on how the mentorship influenced their career and business experiences. “Mentorship is valuable because there’s always an opportunity to…

5 Life Lessons From Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran

By Alp Mimaroglu You may know her as a multi-millionaire investor on ABC’s Shark Tank, but New York real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran didn’t become one of the highest-paid female investors in the world overnight. Like many other entrepreneurs, she climbed her way to the top from nothing.  Barbara Corcoran grew up poor. Despite her external circumstances, however, she maintained a strong imagination and showed keen business acumen…

10 Tips For Landing Your Dream Advertising Job

There are so many articles and guides out there today on how to achieve your dreams in your post-grad life. They offer advice on how to be prepared, knowing why you want the job, and of course, bringing a carefully proofed resume. But lots of jobs, especially those in the advertising world, have big stakes. The competition when it comes to finding that dream job…

3 Ways to Make Businesses More Welcoming to Women

Women are undeniably good for business. Numbers consistently show that gender-diverse companies are more likely to experience above-average profitability. Also, from my experience I have observed that women add an important complementary perspective to the business issue at hand, which often results in a wider range of solutions. Thus, it is rational for workplaces to create supportive environments for women…

How Future Businesswomen Can Get Leadership Experience

How Future Businesswomen Can Get Leadership Experience  You’re never too young to set goals for yourself. As young women, we spend our high school English classes having lofty daydreams about our future, wondering if we’ll end up hustling in New York City or Los Angeles, starting a small company in our hometown, or if we’ll be traveling the world. There…

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