85 Broads commenced its programme in Delhi yesterday with a discussion on starting and running an e-commerce business in India, led by the charming CEO of Crazeal.com, (Groupon India) Ankur Warikoo.
You may be surprised that we had chosen a man to kick-start our Delhi programme, as indeed were the educated professional women in our audience. Ankur is of course a fantastic speaker, with a sense of humour combined with...
Just the mere mention of the French can incite exhilaration or exasperation to an American. It should inspire. From the French we inherit three principles that are seminal to our nation: Egalite
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April, 2012
Bozeman, Montana & Nairobi, Kenya - Taking the lead in global social entrepreneurship Habihut, LLC announces the unveiling of its most technologically and environmentally sustainable structure to date. The installation and groundbreaking ceremony will take place...
This week's tips come courtesy of Alison Albeck Lindland, a fellow Vassar graduate who went on to get her MBA from Columbia Business School, graduating in 2008. Prior to business school Alison worked on the Goldman Sachs and Jaguar accounts at OgilvyInteractive and was an early team member at TheaterMania.com, a startup media and ticket software company. After graduating from...
To succeed as a woman entrepreneur or startup founder in the 2.0 economy requires strong communication skills and creative social intelligence whether you're seeking to raise capital, sell your goods, motivate your team, be taken seriously by clients, vendors, investors ... basically anyone!
Check out this Secrets of Successful Startups video with commentary from top-tier startup investors who suggest that women entrepreneurs need to dream BIGGER when we initiate our businesses,...
It all started from a study trip I took to Paris when I was an MBA student at Stanford.
Having previously only worked in the technology industry, the trip completely changed my perspective about the luxury industry. I met many talented designers and learned their stories. One famous designer served us sparkling apple cider in champagne flutes, a metaphor for fashion. He remarked, “The world only sees the glamorous façade about the...
If you’re a business owner, you essentially have three options for earning more money: charge higher prices; get more customers; or sell more things to existing customers. But you don’t have to be a business owner or even directly responsible for generating sales to put these strategies into practice.
Charge higher prices = increase your compensation. Most people only think about asking for more salary. Remember that your compensation is more than...
This article originally appeared on Forbes.com
I believe that smaller social networks will succeed.
This post originally appeared on my New Domains blog for Forbes.com
An Initial Public Offering (IPO) can mean many different things for the future of a business. The (rumored-to-be-imminent) IPO for Facebook - the company that harnessed the collective conscious - is one that will be watched more closely than any other. And that interest will come not only by those with the means to participate in the IPO, but also the...
January 23, 2012
I would like to share a recent experience that has reconfirmed my belief that The Universe works in mysterious ways. Ways which often baffle and frustrate us, but ultimately create situations which force us to take a closer look at why things happen and what we are supposed to learn from a specific event.
Several months ago...
