Category: Starting a Business

5 Successful Women Entrepreneurs Offer Advice to Female Business Owners

5 Successful Women Entrepreneurs Offer Advice to Female Business Owners

Today marks the closing of National Business Women’s Month, a celebration of successful women business owners and their contributions to society. To round out the celebration, we asked five successful female business owners and experts to share one piece of advice they would offer to current and prospective female entrepreneurs. Here’s what these inspiring women had to say. La Donna Higgins, Founder, The Startup Admin: “Use your natural skills as a woman to catapult your idea or business forward. We have… Read More
7 Takeaways from a Female Trailblazer Who Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Company

7 Takeaways from a Female Trailblazer Who Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Company

With her dazzling hair, flawless makeup, and hot-pink aesthetic, Mary Kay Ash is one of the most recognizable and successful entrepreneurs in the world. A somewhat controversial figure, she was a heady blend of contradictions—radical yet conservative, old-school yet revolutionary, a quintessential grandmother in a pink Cadillac. Demoted twice by oldfangled executive teams for the crime of outshining her male colleagues, Ash quit her day job at the age of 45 and founded Mary Kay Cosmetics—a global phenomenon which, at her… Read More
This Couple Grew Their Online Eyewear Business Into a 57-Person Team

This Couple Grew Their Online Eyewear Business Into a 57-Person Team

Today marks the beginning of National Business Women's Week. Since it was first nationally observed in 1928, NBWW highlights the contributions of women business owners and entrepreneurs, and aims to increase leadership and advancement opportunities for women. Angie Stocklin and her husband, Randy, own One Click, a company that operates three eyewear brands in the e-commerce space—Readers.com, which sells reading glasses, Sunglass Warehouse, which sells discount sunglasses, and felix + iris, which sells prescription glasses. A purely online sales company, the Stocklins have… Read More
This Week’s Happenings: $1,500 a Day, Identifying a Target Market, and The Best Sale

This Week’s Happenings: $1,500 a Day, Identifying a Target Market, and The Best Sale

[Podcast] The Calculated Risks That Helped Khara Kapas Make $1,500 a Day Risk aversion can be both a blessing and a curse. Entrepreneurship is a job charged with new risks around every corner, and it’s important to take enough calculated risks to realize your goals. Here’s how this risk-averse entrepreneur is crushing it in the fashion scene, getting her start by selling via popup shops and social media before she even had a website. “I knew that I need to… Read More
How Two Rescues Inspired a Creative Dog-Walking Accessory

How Two Rescues Inspired a Creative Dog-Walking Accessory

Ryan Riley and his wife, Ashley Spitz, are the founders of BizBagz, a company that sells uniquely designed environmentally responsible dog waste bags made from bio-based resins and recycled plastics. “We’re trying to take something as mundane and gross as dog poop and make it a little bit more fun and responsible,” Riley says. BizBagz feature a cherry design, so when dog owners turn them inside out to pick up poop, it appears like they’re carrying a bag of cherries—a… Read More
This Week’s Happenings: the Perfect Productive Day, the Accidental Startup, and Fast-Growing Industries

This Week’s Happenings: the Perfect Productive Day, the Accidental Startup, and Fast-Growing Industries

4 Industries That Are Undergoing Revolutions Without a doubt, technology is changing the landscape for many industries—but here’s a look at four in particular that are being totally transformed at near-warp speed. Demands for safer, more secure, and eco-friendlier homes are creating huge growth opportunity in the home automation industry—with a 12.46% compound annual growth rate from now through 2022. Retail, travel, and the sleep industry (think mattresses, sleep aids, sleep tracking apps) are also on track for major transformation… Read More