Women Entrepreneurs
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Topic: Women Entrepreneurs
Posted By: morticia
Subject: Women Entrepreneurs
Date Posted: 26-Apr-2007 at 11:37
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The following women are self made millionaires who started with very little and successfully created very prosperous businesses: Sarah Breedlove (a/k/a Madam C.J. Walker) - She was born in 1867 (the first freeborn child of emancipated slaves) and was the first African-American self-made millionaire in America with her hair-care products business (Madam C.J. Laboratories). Her best products are the pressing comb and conditioner for straightening hair. She employed over 5,000 black women in her business and established a school (Mary McCleod Bethune School) in Florida. Karen Neuburger - started a line of sleep-wear and her company now generates over US$75 million in sales. Her company is called “Karen Neuburger Pajamas”. Rose Hwang - started a lab company (Alpha Systems Lab, Inc.) which currently generates over US$35 million in sales. She escaped from Vietnam and started her prosperous business in the U.S. Lea Cavenders - started with an idea for bow making which she sold at arts and crafts stores. Her company (E-Z Bowz) now generates over US$4 million in sales. Lisa Hammond - to support women artists throughout the country, she started a catalog company (Femail Creations) which now generates over US$6 million in sales. Sarian Bouma - she was from West Africa and was on welfare, when she decided to start a company (Capital Hill Building Maintenance, Inc.), which now generates sales over US$3.7 million. Gwen Jones - she’s the first African-American woman with a business designing and manufacturing fire trucks. Her company is called Gregory Truck Body & Fire Apparatus Co., Inc., which now generates sales of over US$15 million. Amy Scherber - she borrowed money from friends and family to start a bakery business in New York. Her business (Amy’s Breads) now generates over US$3.8 million. Sarah Breedlove (a/k/a Madam C.J. Walker) - She was born in 1867 (the first freeborn child of emancipated slaves) and was the first African-American self-made millionaire in America with her hair-care products business (Madam C.J. Laboratories). Her best products are the pressing comb and conditioner for straightening hair. She employed over 5,000 black women in her business and established a school (Mary McCleod Bethune School) in Florida. Sources: http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Millionaires-Women-Entrepreneurs/dp/0971763208 http://www.aolatschool.com/students/fact-toads/facts/_a/who-was-americas-first-self-made-female/20060201161409990009 ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Posted By: Penelope
Date Posted: 26-Apr-2007 at 22:18
| Oprah should be on that list as well, especially since she is the most powerful woman in Hollywood, as well as the richest woman in America. |
Posted By: Melisende
Date Posted: 27-Apr-2007 at 05:05
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I would like to add:
http://203.147.135.214/forms/factfiles/penfold.pdf - Mary Penfold - founder of Penfolds Wines here in Australia.
Mary, however, was never a millionaire; and she also has the unfavourable distiction of being overlooked as the "brains" behind the wine making business in favour of a man, Joseph Gillard.
------------- "For my part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity: The throne is a glorious sepulchre." |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 27-Apr-2007 at 10:03
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Uzma Gul in Pakistan. The founder of the Varan company of buses, it dominated the bus service in NWFP, Punjab and Azad Kashmir regions of Pakistan.
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Posted By: heikstheo
Date Posted: 01-May-2007 at 01:41
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Mammy Pleasant was a former slave who started her own restaurant in San Francisco. She also wrote a cookbook. ------------- Ted Heiks BA, History & Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984 |
Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 01-May-2007 at 16:24
Absolutely right, Penelope. Thanks for adding Oprah to the list. She had a very poor and turbulent childhood, but yet overcame all odds in an industry which is very difficult to get into.  ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 01-May-2007 at 16:32
Yes, Sparten, she started her business with one bus and look where it got her!
Other women of Pakistan who are successful in business are: Zoya Aleem - with an herbal workshop in Lahore Ambreen Bukhari - in the jewelry business in Islamabad Adeeba Talat - in the clothing business (Lok Virsa Boutique) in Lahore Source: http://www.win.org.pk/kamyab.php ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 01-May-2007 at 16:37
Good one, Heikstheo!! Thank you! Mammy Pleasant a/k/a Mary Ellen Pleasant was an entrepreneur who used her money to further abolition.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Pleasant ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: heikstheo
Date Posted: 01-May-2007 at 23:11
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Mary Kay Ash started her own cosmetics company and has thereby helped many women achieve a modicum of economic self-sufficiency. ------------- Ted Heiks BA, History & Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02-May-2007 at 09:25
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Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 03-May-2007 at 13:54
 I know, Spartan, all jewelers are thieves! ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 08-May-2012 at 13:45
How Roman women got around the banking systemSome women in ancient Rome had already implemented the concept of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit - microcredit in order to develop their own work projects. "...The study conducted by Carmen Lázaro, professor of Roman Law at the Universitat Jaume I, shows how women managed to get around legal rules that excluded them from using banks to obtain credit. Instead, they developed contracts between themselves to loan or receive small amounts of money, guaranteed by pledging their personal effects – mainly smaller items, such as jewellery... ...The existence of this microcredit system is known through various sources – mainly epigraphic – such as the inscriptions found in the Granio House in Pompeii – which reflect legal transactions such as the ones carried out by moneylender Faustilla, who set her interest rate at 6.25%. Lázaro points out that these loans were done legally and avoided the need to be approved officially by the authorities “since money was a fungible good and therefore, not subject to formalities for the transmission to provide legal effects.” Legal constraints, which should have hampered women in ancient Rome, were exactly the push that led to creating a system, that without opposing the legislation, developed a mechanism to allow women to make transactions. As the researcher says, it is “a business model that has the characteristics of what we know today as microcredit and allowed women to enjoy some freedom of action and avoid the prohibition in the rule of law”...." http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/how-roman-women-got-around-the-banking-system - http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/how-roman-women-got-around-the-banking-system ------------- |
Posted By: ladychristine
Date Posted: 14-Jan-2016 at 02:08
| Lists of inspirational quotes for women often read like hokey “Chicken Soup for the Soul” style filler – hardly applicable to the strong, intelligent http://www.contentfac.com/blog/boss-bitch-manifesto-why-nice-girls-finish-last-in-life-and-in-business/ - entrepreneurial women that we know. But inspirational quotes can actually be great motivators, if they’re the right ones. So we’ve decided to reclaim the genre in a way that’s actually helpful and relevant to women in business. Think of this list as a sort of “Shot of Whiskey for Entrepreneurial Women’s Soul” – something to ease your mind and inspire you to kick ass at the same time. |