Sheville Staff
Local Independent Businesses recycle more money back into the local economy and give greater support to a community's non-profit and civic needs. Asheville Grown Business Alliance is a grassroots organization whose mission is to support independently owned businesses in the community, to continue growing a vibrant local economy while preserving the unique character of Asheville and to educate citizens on the critical importance of thinking locally first when considering the impact of national and global chains. more...
Womens Media Center
This year, only 13.5% of Congressional guests on the five major Sunday morning talk shows have been women.
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Sheville Staff
Eight years ago on March 14, 2002, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to weaken its regulatory authority over broadband Internet access via a cable modem. more...
Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees (1943)
Sheville Staff
In the category of unsure whether this is depressing or educational, we present
this piece of advice from our herstory:
Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees (1943). While
the Women's History Month page on which this occurs dubs this piece "hilarious,"
in light of the 2008 election, we are not so sure.
Different, but equally Successful
News or Press Release
The Advocacy funded paper "Are Male and Female Entrepreneurs Really That
Different?," by Erin Kepler and Scott Shane finds that gender does not
affect new venture performance when other factors are controlled for. However,
several factors--differing expectations, reasons for starting a business, motivations,
opportunities sought and types of businesses--vary
between the genders, and these result in differing outcomes. Such observations
should be taken into account when comparing the outcomes of ventures across
genders.
The data used for the study was from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
(PSED) focusing on businesses started in 1998 and 1999.
A full copy of this report is available at: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs309tot.pdf,
and the research summary can be found at: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs309.pdf.
Did You Know?
Center for Women's Business Research
According to the Center for Women's Business Research 10.6 million privately held companies are now at least 50%-owned by women. And from 1997 to 2004, the estimated growth rate in the number of female-owned companies reached 17%, nearly twice that of all businesses, at 9%.
Sharon Oxendine
Q. I am in process of starting up a new business. I have had my business idea for a long time and have thought some time about how I want to organize it. Why should I need to write up a business plan if I already know what I want to do?
A. It is important to have a business plan if you plan to get a loan or have investors to fund your business. more...
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