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Focusing On Unicorns Is The Wrong Approach

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The tech media is awash with stories about funding rounds, in large part because the VC community is happy to share press releases around each funding round because they want future investors to pump up the value of their original investment. The risks of this happening are not helped by the lower ethical standards entrepreneurs are held to.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

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If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. The following cities are leading the economic revival in their recovery sectors: Washington , D.C Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Perceval is on a journey of exploration, of individuation, to find himself, to grow up. When he visits the Grail King he sees that the man had been seriously wounded in the thigh, in the area of the testes, that his masculine energy had been compromised. To make matters worse, the land is lifeless without fruit and blossoms.

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Avon CEO Andrea Jung Takes Seat on Apple's Board :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung should infuse some energy into the board which has been under fire for backdating company stock options. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Stimmler, contributing Women On Business writer.

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The Rewards of Mentoring :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Mentoring is a must, though it takes time and energy many women don’t feel they have. In order to reach the critical mass needed to impact the cultures of organizations, women who have made it, or are higher up on the organization chart, must lend a hand.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Katrina didn’t give up. Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The Vosges-Haut Chocolat headquarters runs on 100% renewable energies.

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The Prodigal Daughters of Business :: Women on Business

Women on Business

There I was, all pumped up with great entrepreneurial ideas, and nowhere to go but the pantry. That’s when she realized: “I needed to redirect my energies towards something I could be proud of” and took courses to set up her own business as a Doula and Childbirth Educator. “I What had happened to my life?