Tagged: women

March 6, 2013 @ 2:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Female entrepreneurs are shown to be more active than men and receive more backers per campaign and a higher average donation value, in fact raising 10.75% more money than male run campaigns. The crowd sourcing platform Crowdcube celebrated their 2nd birthday last week and the… Read More

March 1, 2013 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Bloom Venture Catalyst, a UK based project crowdfunding site, has announced commission free crowdfunding for any female projects launched on Friday, March 8th.  This special offer is in recognition of International Women’s Day. In a statement on their site they highlighted the challenges women face… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 1:39 pm By Forbes  |  

Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing, according to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies (PDF) across the U.S. That helps to explain why the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same… Read More

January 10, 2013 @ 8:19 pm By Women's Radio  |  

Debe Fennell is a founding partner of CrowdFundingLIVE. She quickly recognized that working together, even with finances, was the way that women were going to make their dreams come true and their projects fly. If you are wondering what the next steps might be, you will… Read More

January 2, 2013 @ 12:51 pm By Forbes  |  

Recently I wrote about a new funding source for entrepreneurs: crowdfunding. Right now, small businesses can raise money from the online crowd in exchange for a give-away, such as a product or service. Hopefully sometime in 2013 the rules and guidelines for the Jumpstart Our Business… Read More

December 11, 2012 @ 3:00 am By Jennifer James, Babble  |  

Have you heard of Catapult? It’s a new crowdfunding web site where all dollars donated go specifically to programs that benefit women and girls; not to overhead or salaries, but to the specific programs you choose to donate to. I have been periodically giving to projects in… Read More

December 8, 2012 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

NEW YORK, Dec. 07 /CSRwire/ – Tuesday, December 11, 2012 brings together women leaders who are transforming the financial markets through social innovation, entrepreneurship, collaborative investment and crowdfunding platforms for a conference called, “Women Transforming Our Financial Markets Symposium.” The event will feature the leaders… Read More

December 7, 2012 @ 1:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

NowStreet Media, leader in financial markets’ reform, is pleased to announce the agenda detailing its esteemed speakers, renown workshops and generous sponsors for its much anticipated “Women Transforming Our Financial Markets Symposium” being held on Tuesday, December 11th in New York City. New York, NY… Read More

November 27, 2012 @ 6:46 pm By USA Today  |  

Engineers are in dire demand, yet the ranks of female engineers is wanting in Silicon Valley. Women are taking small steps. Calif. — Back in the mid-1980s, Jeanine Swatton was in an all-girl band in Boston, belting out top-40 hits — just like the then-popular… Read More

November 14, 2012 @ 5:31 am By The Telegraph  |  

Catapult is the first “crowd funding” site – where people make small donations to ideas they like – dedicated to helping young girls and women. Four weeks in, Emma Sinclair looks at the growth of the financing concept which says goodbye to the millioniare backer…. Read More