Kelly Daugherty and Jayne Drew knew almost nothing about fashion production and merchandising when they decided to launch Smashing Online. What they did know was that they were on to a great idea-combining the success of shapewear with performance fabrics for tennis and golf outfits. There idea was to provide athletic attire that would give instant "tummy control."
Fittingly, Kelly and Jayne met while playing tennis together. They came up with the...
Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition (February 14, 2012 in Mountain View, CA) is a full day of learning from product innovation leaders who built Flickr, Facebook, Zipcar, TaskRabbit, LARK and more.
Both men and women working in...
I am excited to share my takeaways after attending an amazing entrepeneurial conference and hope that you will take away something so that you can keep on building....
"I’m back in Chicago almost 72 hours after landing in Colorado for the sold-out 2011 Defrag Conference, Eric Norlin’s brainchild for where entrepreneurs flock to… Be. Better. Informed. Period.
No drawn-out panels for the 325 attendees. Rather, rapid-fire stories from high-profile speakers and side...
Last Saturday I was honored to speak at the Book Breakthrough NYC conference hosted by the brilliant, gracious, and funny Janet Goldstein and Liz Marshall. It was really cool to share a little about our experience around our book, our reasons for writing it, and how it fits in overall with our business strategy. It was also cool to meet the other people there –...
The New Age of high-growth women entrepreneurs is about to transform economies across the globe and create millions of jobs.
If this sounds like a grand statement, it is not, from listening to Sharon Vosmek. As CEO of Astia, the premier...
Entrepreneurship is very appealing to women in leadership. You get to be your own boss and the challenges of building your own business can be exciting. Is entrepreneurship something that you have considered? Perhaps the idea of working for yourself sounds appealing, but you don’t know where to begin. Maybe you’ve worked a full-time job all of your life and are afraid of...
Here's my latest blog post for AOL Small Business on what we can learn from a recession -- especially if there is a double-dip:
http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2011/06/22/what-we-can-learn-from-recession-and-how-it-can-help-us-prosp/
Have you ever had an idea that you think is a good one and you want to turn it into a business? Well, that happened to me in December 2007. I had an idea to create a better way to bank, especially for young people. I started with a whiteboard writing out all my ideas. Over the course of the last 3+ years,...
