If you believe it, you can achieve it.
Kathrin Zenkina: The Master Manifestor
For Kathrin Zenkina, success is inevitable. It’s part of her affirmation, where she believes “I am always on the right path.” Dreaming of that new job? New car or more…
Know exactly what you want.
Jayna Cooke Explains How to Successfully Sell Your Business
Jayna Cooke is CEO and founder of Chicago-based EVENTup, the largest online marketplace for event venues. (EVENTup was recently acquired by Gather.) Cooke was also former VP of business development…
Delegate & automate.
The Best Online Tools For Outsourcing
No matter where you are on your career journey, the thought of outsourcing can be scary. When your entire business and income depend solely on you, trusting someone else to…
What I learned from being a first time CEO and mother.
Balancing Babies with Your Startup: Lessons From a Double Pregnancy
In the male-driven tech world, female entrepreneurs already face many more hurdles than their male counterparts. Finding out you’re pregnant on top of that might seem like the end of…
A tax attorney explains how the new law will affect your business and your lifestyle.
Headline: The Tax Code Has Changed: Have You?
With the new tax law mostly coming into effect this January, the Congress added a new Section 199A. This section allows qualifying tax payers to deduct 20% of their “qualified…
One entrepreneur is maximizing this counterintuitive strategy.
How Renting Instead of Owning Can Leverage Capital for Your Business
The Small Business Administration estimates that a third of all businesses fail in the first year; half by year five. One of the main reasons for these failures is a…
Keep things from getting complicated.
Tips For Running A Business WITH Your Significant Other
In the world of entrepreneurship, if you asked one hundred different people why they wanted to open a business, you’d most likely get one hundred different answers. I have my…
Can your business handle the sudden growth?
How To Survive A Viral Video: From the Founder of Mermaid Pillow
Everyone talks about social media these days — everyone wants to ‘go viral.’ We think a viral video will solve all our problems, bring in an audience, bring in sales,…
Be smart about your expansion.
Doing Business Overseas: 5 Strategies to Minimize Your Financial Risks
A lot of businesses worry about expanding into overseas markets, and rightly so; for every new country, there’s a new list of concerns. Every country you expand into almost feels…
Where innovation meets compassion.
Roshni Rides: The Prize-Winning Startup Changing Lives With Rideshare
Women empowerment is key to the success of the real world. The United Nations Populations Fund tells us that women empowerment is essential for the success of both men, women,…
Meet our November Woman of the Month
Dr. Ximena Hartsock: Using Tech to Advance Civic Engagement
Dr. Ximena Hartsock is co-founder and president of Phone2Action, a Washington, DC-based startup that enables citizens to connect with policymakers via email, Twitter, and Facebook using their mobile phones. “Phone2Action is…
Community involvement is essential to business growth.
Why Time Off For Halloween Is Good For Business
Midweek Halloween celebrations are tricky, aren’t they? At least if it was Thursday, we could just take a three day weekend, but Wednesday? We all have to work the next…
The founder shares how she developed the #1 pregnancy subscription box service in the country.
5 Steps To Turn Your Side-Hustle Into A Full Time Business, According to Bump Box
Christine Deehring returned to work at her Fortune 100 company after the birth of her daughter, but when she did, she knew her time was limited. Her passion was with…