By Jessica Naziri (Reporter, CNBC) When Alexa von Tobel found herself frustrated with the lack of personal finance resources and tools available to her, she took a leave of absence from Harvard Business School in 2008 to pursue her dream of creating a way for women to...
By Karen E. Klein (Contributing Writer, Businessweek) Women represent only 35 percent of startup owners in the U.S., even though 50 percent of college students and 46 percent of the U.S. workforce is female. Women’s startup businesses also “tend to experience less...
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today, the Kauffman Foundation released a paper on “Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers” by Lesa Mitchell. The paper showed hope for women entrepreneurs, reminding...
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In December, TEDtalks posted Why we have too few women leaders (video) by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, showing the world what a powerful, ambitious woman leader looks like. This week, Sheryl delivered a...
By Lesa Mitchell (Vice President, Kauffman Foundation) This much is known: The next round of economic recovery and growth in the U.S. will be led by new companies. The statistical evidence on that point is clear. While big, established firms employ the most people,...