Adrienne Ma: Learns Business Lessons From Mom
Adrienne is taking the lessons she learned from her family’s traditional retail business to the web selling luxury items on her high-end e-commerce site.
Original Video Profiles of Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs
Watch videos about women who are busting the myths of female entrepreneurship and starting and running companies that fill their lives with meaning, purpose and passion. If you run your own business, or think you want to, these videos will inspire you and help you grow.
WATCH: The Terminator — Hi-Tech Female Role Model
Growing up below the poverty line, Melissa Mowbray-D’Arbela, the founder of Filligent Technologies, learned to be resourceful at an early age. Raised by a single mother of four, Melissa started her own business creating hand-made greeting cards at age 12.
Rose Yeong: The Queen of Shoes
Rose ran away from home as a teenager and began selling shoes. She learned the hard way, on the job, and today sells thousands of pairs of shoes each year.
Business: Bespoke Shoes & Retail
Violet Lim, Entrepreneur: How One Woman’s Risk Paid Off
“I have to follow my own passion, not what my parents set out for me,” our 22-year-old intern Christina Wu said after watching Violet Lim’s video on The Story Exchange.
Starting a Business for the Kids’ Sake?
Lyn Lee, founder of Awfully Chocolate, told us her main reason for starting a company was so she could start a family and raise children on her terms. In a way it seems counterintuitive.