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V is for volunteering.
Which, unlike crime, does pay. It’s not always about the money. Doing something for someone else and for a cause you support can bring more concrete rewards than you might expect.
Those of us who are starting businesses are sometimes sucked into the dark vortex [...]

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B is for Business Card
I still remember my first business card. I drew a dandelion on it and wrote Have Dandelion Will Pick, the name of my business. I was six years old. The plan was to dig up dandelions for 5¢ a bucket and business [...]

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Washington Post reports Women Entrepreneurs Pitch Their Companies at Stanford.
NewsBlaze reports Women Entrepreneurs to Discuss Challenges and Success in Business.
The Northwestern.com has an article about mothers and daughters teaming up for business.
Black Enterprise.com has an article entitled Entrepreneurship: Encouraged by Diversity and Fueled by Adversity.
Seattle PI reports Women [...]

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Just a reminder regarding the logo contest. I’ve already received an awesome looking submission; so, get yours in to me because it ends on June 6th. For the details of the contest see Reader Contest - Design a StartUp Ladies Logo.

I am running the same contest for [...]

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M is for Make One, Sell One
We generally associate manufacture with mass production - machines that spit out those products we use and wear every day. But manufacture simply means to make something.
The most intimate form of manufacture has to be make one, sell one. A huge [...]

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Hey there! I’m adding a new “feature” to StartUp Ladies in which I give you a weekly brief of women entrepreneur sitings and happenings. I will try to do this once a week; we’ll see how it goes.

Wall Street Journal wants to know where the women are in [...]

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So many of the great women entrepreneurs I have been connecting with online and who have been graciously linking to my site have been asking for a logo or button to display on their site that I think it’s time to have one designed. Well, I know online [...]

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R is for Relationships.
There is no single thing, in any business of any size, that is more important than relationships. We do not exist outside the context of other people. As business people we have a product or service which we provide to someone. That someone, or [...]

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