Women entrepreneurs: a global perspective
The gender disparity in the business world in general, and entrepreneurship specifically, has recently garnered renewed attention in light of the recent Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Enterprise Day. The UK’s unofficial...
Teaching entrepreneurship in engineering
Instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineers is essential if we want our bright young talent to innovate and then productize those innovations to better mankind. Tuition at top engineering schools is close to...
Reinventing how women shop
Two enterprising young women, of Loop de Luxe, are part of the movement to change how we women shop. The pair are providing opportunities for new and upcoming designers to showcase their products online. Loop de Luxe gives women...
Seema Patel, Fusing robotics and games with Interbots
Seema never had any plans to go into business and never in a million years thought she’d start a company. But the opportunity fell into her lap and she couldn’t resist taking the plunge. Seema was always into robots. She...
Corissa McClay, making personal style a business with MakerCraft
Corissa always loved making jewelry. But it was an expensive and time consuming hobby. To make anything, she had to buy beads and other materials and then sit for hours to figure out designs that would work. She hit on the idea...
Vera Moura, bombing cancer tumors with Treat U
31-year old Vera Moura knows that chemotherapy is a necessary evil. You need the chemicals to kill the tumors, but, unfortunately, those chemicals also create collateral damage. What if you could bomb only the targeted tumor...
Karina Pikhart, 6dot Innovations: tools that make a difference
One thing I love about the younger generation of entrepreneurs (and maybe this is true of all generations of entrepreneurs?) is that they never do what they are supposed to do. These up-and-coming entrepreneurs are not followers;...
Passion for Food Drives Emily Olson to Foodzie
“I have always loved food,” Emily explains. In college, Emily Olson hung around entrepreneurial-minded friends and focused on finding an outlet for her passion around food. She changed her major from chemistry to nutrition and...
Women entrepreneurs: Who says we can’t
Why are so few women in technology? Why is it that for every 10 men that I interview for my blog, I struggle to find one technology-oriented entrepreneur who is female? “Maybe women are more risk adverse,” says Deanna Bennett, a...
Krista Paul, Usingmiles.com
Krista Paul came up with a simple solution to a problem that she (and many others) had: using your frequent flyer miles up before they expire. What’s the problem? I don’t know about you, but many of us have several (frequent...