By Bernardo Flores Heymann Valeria Horton finished college in May 2020, two months after the COVID-19 lockdown had stopped everything in Mexico. With a stagnant economy and few job offers for recent graduates, Valeria decided to take advantage of the crisis to start a business. This is their story and with the sole objective of promoting their entrepreneurship, I pitch the idea to…
By Victoria147 Entrepreneurship is present within professional and personal purposes, but various factors can interpose when starting the adventure and inhibit female leadership; although based on the analysis of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) , when women undertake, they do so more successfully than men. “The questions will be present in our lives at all times, but it is necessary to go…
By Kathleen Griffith Rebecca Minkoff is a designer and entrepreneur who began her career with an eponymous clothing line in 2001 and most recently launched The Female Founder Collective in September 2018 in order to empower women entrepreneurs. The Female Founder Collective aims to creates awareness around female-founded businesses so that consumers and investors can support them, as well as provide a valuable community for…
An opinion piece by Sarah Lempa: “Had I ‘succeeded’ in my past endeavors, I’d probably be sitting in a corporate office racking my brain over some superfluous comment my boss made in our morning meeting.” -Sarah Lempa, Writer, Entrepreneur, and Creative Media Strategist I used to crack jokes about being the black sheep of my business school in college. Mingling…
Every year, since the early 1990s, more women decide to get married and have children later in life. This decision increases the risk of infertility and miscarriage. The 2019 CDC data on births in the United States reports that the general fertility rate declined 1% in 2019 to 58.3 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years from 59.1 in 2018.…
By Amy Feldman Jooyeon Song, a native of Korea and former BCG consultant, spent many hours in frustration getting her nails done. Studying for her MBA at Stanford Business School in 2017, she teamed up with classmates David Miro Llopis and Grace Chiang (who left when it was still a student project) with an idea to cut the hassle of…
GC4W is so excited to announce that we are carrying Oobaby Luxurious Italian Leather Handbags on our newly launched GC4W Marketplace. We started a new campaign this month to encourage our community to #shopsmall and support female entrepreneurs when doing your holiday shopping this season.
Do it at the mere hour. Act with little agility. Apply old-school leadership. Forget human resources. Digital transformation is the new strategic opportunity for women entrepreneurs who are willing to make the most of technologies. Following the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies faced significant challenges. From modifying their production lines, to a rethinking of their sales channels. Many…
Starting on November 1st, we promise to give you lots of fantastic reasons to shop small and support female entrepreneurs on the new GC4W Marketplace.
Entrepreneur chatted with Issah about her experience as a founder, what it’s like creating programming for a demographic she’s passionate about and the top piece of advice she’d give to soon-to-be entrepreneurs.