…that helped information-technology companies win federal contracts. She started FedConsulting in 1991 at age 29, fresh from a divorce and living in her brother’s basement. It prospered for a decade,…
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At Her Craft Shop, Kids Are Empowered to Express Themselves
…technology. My education was in the arts, so I built a space for kids based on what I know and love to do. I also added elements of what brings…
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…from across time and all corners of the globe. It’s a great, innovative way of using technology to tell a captivating story, and we highly recommend taking a few minutes…
Helping Tomorrow’s STEM Leaders Reach for the Stars
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our ongoing look at the lack of female representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. See our introductory post on the subject here….
Unbalanced Books: How Women of Color Struggle for Startup Capital
…credentials. And the Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee found that businesses run by women only got 4.4 percent of all money doled out though conventional small business loans, the…
The Book That Inspires a Rising Star Entrepreneur
…York tech scene. Quartz ranks her 44th on its Founders Index of 250 female founders. Forbes notes she’s one of only five women in fintech (finance technology) to have raised…
Remembering Those Who Served: 7 Companies Run By Female Veterans
…These Military Moms Want Your Leftover Halloween Candy] 1. Sword & Plough Sisters Emily and Besty Nunez started Sword & Plough while Emily was still at Middlebury College participating in…
Dr. Jude Black: Online Therapy for Today’s Busy World
…for the troops. I remember only relying on in-person meetings and handwritten letters. Thankfully, technology makes marketing easier today, although I am an avid believer in the written word. I…
Activist Reshma Saujani: ‘We’ve Been Trying to Fix Women, Rather Than Fix the Structure’
…active role in the country that saved her life. In 2012, after noticing a gender divide in technology, she founded Girls Who Code, an international nonprofit that ushers more young…
Steering a 100-Year-Old Family Fish Business Through Murky Pandemic Waters
…own challenges, in particular adapting the decades-old company’s procedures to rapidly changing technology. The spread of Covid-19 — and the resulting restaurant closures, hotel reservation cancellations and overall widespread financial…
A Scrappy Real Estate Broker Stakes Her Business on Flat Fees
…it does a $500,000 property, especially in this day and age of technology. It’s changed our business because we’ve been able to triple our listing volume. CARD: Ati is currently…
Why Aren’t Women in Tech? Job Discrimination
Credit: publicdomainpictures.net We at The Story Exchange have been looking more and more into some of the reasons behind the lack of representation for women in the technology sector –…
How This High School Entrepreneur Wants to Change Instagram for the Better
…Zfluence, a company that aims to inspire her generation to be more authentic on social media. “For Generation Z more than ever, social media and technology is influential. We are…
Lizette Smook: Innovasians– Consumption With An Environmental Awareness
…The toxicity of what we do and the volume of what we do is not sustainable. By investing in technology and converting these to commercialised products that are human health…
Barbara Jefts’ Flower Farm Blossoms, On Her Own Terms
…studying art at the Rochester Institute of Technology but dropped out to travel the world. CARD: When she returned she worked as a groom at a racetrack and lived in…