Entrerepenurs & Business

This is something bugging me for a long time.

How can we support small scale women entrepreneurs, people who do business from home - like, say, artificial flowers or making cupcakes or something like that? Or say jewelry making or selling from their home?

I am not just talking about how they can sell more stuff nor am I talking about digital organizers or Project Management apps (like Basecamp or whatever). But holistically, how can we support this group of women, who can definitely become a global market force and contribute to both local and national / international economy...

Not everyone is of the Tik Tok generation (and I honestly don't know how useful that is, how much it translates into sales), but what are some ways we can help small scale women entrepreneurs? Any ideas??

For all those of you who are not "professionals" with deep experience in any one field, your time has come! At least according to Harvard lecturer Vikram Mansharamani. Read the entire article following the link, or see excerpts I have selected below:

His advice is that the "skill" needed for the future is not really a skill but more an approach, a philosophy and a way of thinking. "Breadth of perspective and the ability to connect the proverbial dots (the domain of generalists) is likely to be as important as depth of expertise and the ability to generate dots (the domain of specialists)." he says.

"To begin, it’s important to zoom out and pay more attention to the context in which you’re making decisions. Read the whole paper, not just the section about your industry. Is your primary focus oil and gas? Study the dynamics affecting the retail sector. Are…

This has been around for a long long time...various women leaders have discussed this, women writers have written about it...The statistics remain very discouraging. Despite having almost two or three generations of women who have been working full time, women in decision making positions and leadership positions remain abysmally low. Take a look at this stats I found on the AAUW website:

(AAUW is stands for American Association for University Women and most of their work and stats therefore is US-oriented. Nonetheless, the stats seen above is of a global nature and something we can all relate to.)

There is a variety of reasons. History for one. Right? The stereotype of the 'old boys club' still holds true. Leadership traits are still not somehow associated with leadership. (See the video at the end of this post.) Women traditionally have fewer connections and networks, get fewer introductions and therefore fewer mentors,…

Well, this is a forum post on QV Woman and I am the founder of which, so common sense dictates I'll say yes!

#womenentrepreneurs #femaleentrepreneur #womeninbusiness #sheforshe #qvwoman #womeninnovators

Let me explain why though. Who is an entrepreneur? Someone who thinks out the box when seeking business solutions- be it creating or dispersing products and services. But also, an entrepreneur is someone who are themselves enterprising, who can think out of the box when it comes to designing and delivering regular products and services. And before you say that is just good marketing, I say no, it's not!

We've seen some very clever marketing campaigns that did nothing to save a product. What clinches the deal so to say, is when the entrepreneur is deeply vested in their product or service, have an emotional connection with it, (need not necessarily use the product although that helps) and knows it inside…