Engineering vs. Business

It’s a classic struggle – the logical, practical engineer butting heads with the uncomprehending, inefficient business major (see: all of Dilbert). Or wait – is it instead the visionary manager struggling to focus a socially inept engineer puttering off on a...

7 Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face (and How to Overcome Them)

Entrepreneurship was once considered a man’s domain, but the tide has shifted: More than 9 million U.S. firms are now owned by women, employing nearly 8 million people and generating $1.5 trillion in sales, according to 2015 data from the National Association of...

Four Advantages To Being A Female Entrepreneur

This is an article with several assertions that don’t ring true in my mind. However, it does have some useful points – you be the judge. Being a woman has its advantages and its disadvantages, but when it comes to female entrepreneurship, I think women are...

The female advantage

Given the mixed evidence – and the need for much more research – some caution against taking the case for female leadership too far. Companies should not expect that simply putting more women in corner offices or on boards will automatically improve...

Women Entrepreneurs: “Turn Your Difference into an Advantage”

At the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the class Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Women began as a short seminar about a decade ago. Since then, it has been taken by hundreds of people, most of them women. Lecturer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist...