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Laura Zander, Founder of Jimmy Beans Wool

Knitter Turns Hobby Into a Multi-Million $ Business

By keeping an eye on the bottom line, Laura Zander has grown her tiny idea into a major success.

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Video Profile: Watch Hong Kong’s Queen of Restaurants

Watch how one woman built a successful restaurant empire in one of the most competitive food capitals.

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Employing the Unemployable: A Jordanian Engineer’s Story

When Jordanian entrepreneur, Nermin Fawzi Saad, was looking for a handful of female engineers to join her new company, she received 700 resumes.

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Entrepreneur Helps Indigenous Women Stitch Up Their Daughters’ Future

“No one believed indigenous women could be international entrepreneurs – not even their own husbands.” Read and WATCH how Ruth DeGolia proved everyone wrong.

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Young Entrepreneur Finds Her Fashion in Furniture

As a young woman, Hanny Lerner did something that most would find impossible; she broke away from her family, friends and tight knit community.

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How Women Entrepreneurs Can Catch Up to Their Male Counterparts

Even though women are starting businesses at a higher rate then the national average, they contribute only 4% of the U.S. revenue. Count Me In CEO Nell Merlino is determined to change that.

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Erica Diamond: “Family Comes Before Business”

Erica Diamond, founder of WomenOnTheFence.com shares how she balances work and family as a mompreneur and why we all need a good support network to keep our energy high.

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An Entrepreneur You AUTO Know

Audra Fordin is determined to defy stereotypes and she’s not afraid to get dirty along the way. This feisty mother of three rolls gamely under any broken car and fixes it better than many men.

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Summer Reading: Ladies Who Launch in Hong Kong by Maseena Ziegler

In this interview, author Maseena Ziegler shares her observations about entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and about the power women who run these businesses.

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Choosing a business over Olympic gold

Amber Williams is so hyped up about the upcoming Summer Olympics in London that she's put a digital countdown clock on her website. A gymnast since she was seven, Amber started her Michigan-based business Power in Motion Gymna...

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How Great Women Lead

Bonnie St. John is the former director of the National Economic Council in the Clinton White House and the first African-American ever to win Olympic medals in ski racing. At the age of five a rare condition forced the amputati...

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Book Excerpt: How Great Women Lead

In this excerpt from How Great Women Lead: a Mother-Daughter Adventure Into the Lives of Women Shaping the World authors Bonnie St. John and her teenage daughter recall the conversation that started their journey.

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Click Your Counselor: Startup Offers Virtual Therapy

Bea Arthur started Pretty Padded Room -- which offers women counseling sessions with an all women team of eight licensed therapists online -- to make therapy more affordable and convenient.

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Is Your Startup Cool?

Author of The Coolest Startups in America, Doreen Bloch talks to The Story Exchange about the coolest startups and sheds some light about the women in the startup industry.

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Entrepreneur Helps Indigenous Women Stitch Up Their Daughters’ Future

In 2004 Ruth DeGolia, traveled to Guatemala to conduct research for her Yale thesis on the effects of globalization in a country torn apart by civil war.

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The Quest for an Even Suntan Motivates Young Entrepreneur

I was just reading some submissions on the Your Stories section of our site and came across entrepreneur Cheri Garcia, a 25-year-old who already has a patent for her product, a tanning bed invention (not the NJ woman who over t...

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Vienne Cheung, Founder, VienneMilano: A Hollywood Star Crashed My Launch Party

Vienne Cheung is Founder of VienneMilano, a luxury hosiery brand and online boutique dedicated exclusively to thigh high stockings.

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Summer Reading: Spark & Hustle by Tory Johnson

In her newest book, Spark & Hustle, Tory Johnson offers practical advice for women who have that spark to develop their own business and they just need is a little hustle to make it all happen.

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Founders Jody Landers and Becky Straw, The Adventure Project. Photos: Esther Havens

The Adventure Project Helps Others Help Themselves

Becky Straw and Jody Landers are unlikely partners on a shared mission to alleviate poverty in developing countries. In 2010 they started The Adventure Project, a non-profit that provides funding to social enterprises. “We ...

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Summer Reading: Dream It! Launch It! Live It! by Victoria Colligan

Victoria Colligan, author of Dream It! Launch It! Live It! offers some tips on how to improve your well-being and shares an excerpt from her book.

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High-Tech Mom Entrepreneur Gets Families Organized

As a working mother with four boys – aged two to eight – Joanne Lang has always been extremely organized to manage her busy life. But it's been challenging and time-consuming, and her background in computer science made Lan...

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Momtrepreneur Brings Jobs Back To US

While taking her kids to school one day, Amy almost got into a car accident while reaching over for a tissue and thus sparked her business idea.

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Young Entrepreneur: Tara Haughton

The Story Exchange is devoting the month of April to profiling young women who have started their own business. This week we meet Tara Haughton, from Ireland, who founded Rosso Solini at the age of 16.

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Young Entrepreneur: Cheryl Yeoh

Cheryl Yeoh was 18 when she left her native Malaysia to come to the United States after receiving a scholarship to study science and engineering at Cornell University. Today she owns a tech startup with four full time employees.

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