“Build an incredible team, give them the right tools, then get out of their way.” By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Perhaps it’s women’s natural instinct to nurture or maybe high-impact entrepreneurs know that you can’t sustain rapid growth without employees who deliver excellent products and customer service. It’s both, according to Marsha Firestone, President of [...]
Posts Tagged "Ventureneer"
Women Entrepreneurs Not Being All They Can Be
May 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
Women lag behind their male counterparts in using online marketing to generate ROI. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Women entrepreneurs, take note: As a group, you are dragging your feet when it comes to using and building your confidence in online marketing. It’s a good bet that your foot-dragging is a drag on your revenue [...]
Women CEOs Share 4 Secrets To Fast Growth
May 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
Supercharged growth is all in your mind. Changing your mindset can change your growth potential. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) If you want to be a winner, watch the moves of big winners. To find winning women entrepreneurs, a good place to start is Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women. These women entrepreneurs had already [...]
E-Commerce Entrepreneur, Homepreneur Or Coffeeshoppreneur?
April 21, 2012 – 8:00 am
New options require new definitions for entrepreneurs. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) “Tech-enabled business,” like “stay-at-home” Mom, are terms that have taken on new meanings for entrepreneurs. Tech-enabled used to refer to big data, cloud-based collaboration, and algorithm-driven enterprises, such as Facebook. And stay-at-home moms were women who gave up their careers to devote themselves [...]
Can Angels Help Women Shatter Glass Ceilings?
April 11, 2012 – 4:45 pm
Women have shied from seeking outside funding to grow their companies, resulting in slower growth. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Money is a key ingredient for high-growth, job-creating companies. Traditionally women have shied away from using outside funding. As a result, their businesses have grown slowly and created fewer jobs. But that seems to be [...]
6 Lessons The Girl Scouts Can Teach Entrepreneurs
March 26, 2012 – 10:30 am
Solid business skills sold with each box of Girl Scout Cookies! By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) When you sign up for a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, do you realize that you just helped an entrepreneur-in-training? And that she and the 100-year-old Girl Scout organization may have some ideas that could help your business. [...]
4 Tips On Building Your Business By Increasing Your Confidence
February 23, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Dareth Colburn always thought men were smarter than she was. It was what she’d been taught as a child. Her brothers were told to be their own boss; she was told that if she went to the right school, she could be an executive secretary and to forget about design [...]
Women’s Advantage In Building Next Wave E-Commerce Startups
January 24, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Geri Stengel (President, Ventureneer) In the early days of online shopping, when most of the products sold were computers, software, music, and consumer electronics, men ruled e-commerce. That may be changing now that product choices have expanded to everything from cosmetics to shoes to toys. Just as women dominant shopping in the brick-and-mortar world [...]
Where Are The Power-Brokers in American Women Entrepreneurs
October 19, 2011 – 10:00 am
By Geri Stengel (Founder & President, Ventureneer) The Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful Women includes no American-born entrepreneurs. Yes, it includes corporate execs, high government officials, and celebrities who leveraged their fame into businesses but no one who started a small business that became a huge business. Where are the Billie Jean Gates and [...]
