Women in Small Business: First Woman-Owned Brewery Women in Small Business: Olive Pit Brewing’s Christine Cain opened the first 100% woman-owned brewery in Maine By Christopher Wheelock, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine Christine Cain didn’t just wake up one morning and decide she was going to open a brewery. Rather, it was a long and convoluted journey that brought her to…
How This Women’s Initiative Is Helping Small Business Owners By Melissa Houston Women are less likely to receive funding for their businesses. If they get funding, female entrepreneurs achieve as much success as male entrepreneurs, yet only 2.2% of women received VC funding in 2021. The Scotiabank Women Initiative has increased its commitment to funding women’s businesses to $10B by 2025. This initiative…
Amesbury Woman’s Career Refocus Brings Positive Change for Customers By Jim Sullivan A local small-business owner is very happy with her recent career change from the classroom to the downtown retail district. Jen Silver had become well known in the city as the director of marketing at Sparhawk School. But she took a chance on herself and opened Caravan by…
“Momtrepreneurship” may not be for every mother—it requires a certain skillset and there are many privileges that lead to success that many women are not fortunate enough to have. But it may not be as out of reach as you might think.
By Women’s Agenda Melbourne’s sixth lockdown provided an unlikely period of transformation for Monica Meldrum and Whole Kids, the healthy snack foods company she co-founded with her husband, James. The two working parents kept the business running with their small kids remote learning from home, and after having suffered an earlier setback as airlines shut down in the wake of the…
By Madeline Hislop To really survive and scale in business, a platform of technology should be driving your organisation. That’s the advice of one Australia’s most recognisable entrepreneurs, Jo Burston. Sixteen years ago, when Burston founded her first company Job Capital, there was no such thing as a digital manager, and as she told Women’s Agenda recently, she didn’t know that many CTOs.…
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By MeiMei Fox October is national women-owned small business month. With numerous, unpredictable school and business shutdowns in the past year and a half due to the Covid-19 pandemic, women are feeling burnt out. Even so, recent research conducted by Groupon reveals that 95% of women small business owners are happier than ever being their own boss despite facing some challenges. Groupon is…
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.
GC4W is so excited to announce that we are carrying Lordess Shoes 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.
