…for immigrant women and women of color in the San Francisco Bay Area is now also a food hall where these business owners can sell their eats and sweets. Entrepreneurs…
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40 Public Companies Founded by Women
…San Francisco Revenue: $167 million 27. The RealReal Founder Julia Wainright launched the luxury consignment shop in 2011. IPO Date: June 28, 2019 Employees: 1,286 Location: San Francisco Revenue: $293.2…
She’s a Musician Providing Full Scale Event and Entertainment Production
…we’re one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in San Francisco per the San Francisco Business Times. This year I’ve been recognized as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs…
Ep. 35: A Podcast for Dog Lovers
…AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotifyPRXGoogleSpotifyPocket Casts Once upon a time, Sherri Franklin was a successful (but uninspired) hairstylist in San Francisco. To find purpose in life, she began volunteering at the SPCA…
Helping Women Find Their Muse
…start a company to solve it. A lot of my friends in San Francisco have been driven by the idea of founding a company, moving to San Francisco, and getting…
How ‘Orange is the New Black’ Inspired This Luxury T-Shirt Company
Editor’s Note: This is part of our Good on the Ground series, profiling entrepreneurial women who are addressing social issues in innovative and inspiring ways. Fif Ghobadian, a San Francisco…
[REPLAY] Ep. 2: Creating Indiegogo
…RSSSpotifyPRXGoogleSpotifyPocket Casts Danae Ringelmann, Indiegogo The San Francisco native was inspired by her small-business-owner parents to create the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. Little did she know her big idea would spawn…
Ep.19: Second Chances
…Kasey O’Connel, Fif Ghobadian and Alice Larkin Cahan of Road Twenty-Two (Credit: Road Twenty-Two) Fif Ghobadian created San Francisco fashion brand Road Twenty-Two to provide jobs for women released from…
This Culinary Icon Introduced America to Real Chinese Cuisine
…restaurants appeared in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1800s, operated mainly by Cantonese-speaking immigrants from China. Decades later, many of these restaurants served Americanized versions of Chinese cuisine –…
A Recipe for Success
Credit: Jan Vašek, StockSnap.io The Mission District, a bustling east-central neighborhood of San Francisco, is home to over 47,000 people — many of whom are Hispanic — and a thriving…
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…name. We headed to San Francisco, where Indiegogo is based, to interview Danae — you can watch our video (which tells her complete story) on our website, TheStoryExchange.org. Today, we…
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…in New York and San Francisco… Felena Hanson: What I found is, in many, many cases, these coworking spaces were targeted to a younger, high-tech demographic. So a lot of…
How a Car Accident Inspired an Entrepreneur to Think Big
…up with the idea for Hera Hub, a co-working space focused on women. She had seen shared workspaces, then just popping up in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco,…
How to Seriously Make a Difference Through Your Work
…Franklin was running a successful San Francisco hair salon when she realized something: Work just wasn’t as satisfying as it used to be. What was rewarding, though, was volunteering at…
Discouraged in School But Thriving as Tech Entrepreneur
Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a three-part series on Women in Tech. Last week, we spoke with Shaan Kandawalla of PlayDate Digital. In San Francisco, Melody McCloskey stands…