10 Things You Didn't Know About Women-Owned Businesses. For the full State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, visit openforum.com/women. American Express OPEN salutes, celebrates and wants to help fuel the future of women business owners. For more information about BrandSpeak, click here. Stories inspire us to action, but behind many stories is data that provides a bigger and better picture of what is happening in the world around us. American Express OPEN takes special interest in the benchmarks reached by women-owned businesses and tasked itself with spreading the findings of its studies to encourage and enable women to put business plans in motion, take risks and move forward with their ideas.
Understanding how women business owners are finding success is an important part of further growth, and the stories shared by women here will illuminate the data to offer guidance and inspiration for fellow entrepreneurs. Below are 10 facts about women-owned businesses, complemented by tips and insights from successful female entrepreneurs. 1. 2. 3. LUCID CIRCUS | High Table. How to Gamify Your Goals: A Step By Step Guide. How to Gamify Those Pesky New Year’s Resolutions The Following is a Guest Post by Jon Guerrera When I started gamifying my goals last year, I didn’t think it would become something worth sharing. I simply wanted to create an effective system for tracking and achieving my goals – especially the ones that were in dire need of motivation.
Despite its humble beginnings, this gamified system has far exceeded my expectations, and has even helped me acquire a dream job of sorts. It’s done a great deal of good for me, so I’d like to pass it along to you (in excruciating detail, of course). This article contains the nitty-gritty details on the process of gamifying goals, along with a set of techniques that will help you get the most out of the system you ultimately create for yourself. So if you have (or intend to soon have) a challenging goal that would benefit from higher levels of motivation, it may be worth your while to read on.
Before we get started, who is this not good for? 2) Break it down. Redirect to: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Women-Owned Businesses. _OF version _FINAL.pdf. Meet 3 of Tech's Foremost Female Founders. Women-owned businesses — 8.3 million of them, in total — are a crucial part of the U.S. economy. Growth by women-owned businesses is surging at a pace faster than that of any other group — over the past 15 years, 1.5 times greater than other groups. There's much to celebrate, and yet there's still work to be done and lessons to be learned.
Over the past three weeks, we've shed light on women-owned businesses, spurred by American Express OPEN's recent report, The State of Women-Owned Businesses [PDF]. We've spoken with prominent female founders about their influences, their ambitions and challenges, in hopes of helping other aspiring female founders to embark on the journey, or to keep going. We've named 44 female founders who every entrepreneur should know, and it's sparked quite a conversation in the comments and on social media. On Tuesday, August 21 at 2p.m. Join us on Tuesday, August 21 at 2p.m. 44 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know. Parisian Love.