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There’s just a few days to go to the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs, the day-long annual UK event, now in its seventh year, is aimed at supporting women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Run by Enterprise Nation, the event, will see hundreds of women self-starters descend on Bristol at the Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel on Friday October 19. Keynote speaker this year ...
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International Women’s Day survey from 99designs reveals continuing funding gap and gender differences in approach to entrepreneurship. Male and female entrepreneurs around the world report extremely similar experiences and attitudes toward starting and running a business – except when it comes to raising outside capital. According to a recent global survey of more than 3,000 entrepren...
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Entrepreneurship is difficult. Entrepreneurship for women can be more difficult. Entrepreneurship for women in developing countries can be nigh impossible. Women in these countries who try to start their own business can be confronted not only by a lack of support, but opposition to them even trying. They find it much harder to gain access to traditional sources of funding, partly because many of ...
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International survey highlights the odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs The odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs, with women more likely to start their business much later in life and with less access to funding. These were among the findings according to a recent poll by the online graphic design marketplace 99designs who surveyed more than...
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