Monday Linkblogging: Women Entrepreneurs

• Siam BBS Weblog has a Top Ten Women Entrepreneurs' Empowerment Tips list. These include "Enlightenment" or faith in a higher power, empowerment of self, balance in family life, and the power of networks.

• Black Enterprise has an article about Dr. K.H. Wang, the businesswoman behind the Smart Reader preschool learning system.

"The objective of being an entrepreneur is, of course, to make money. But immediate profit is not the objective. Money is not the be it and end all. Your business must be able to affect change for the better," affirms this successful woman entrepreneur.

• Check out the new GWN Lifestyle: The Online Magazine for the Woman Entrepreneur. "GWN" stands for Girls Who Network.

Our mission is to help women create the lives they love and deserve. Life becomes a lot easier and much more fun when you have money in the bank. Once finances are taken care of, it is amazing to see the wild, crazy, and outrageous lives women lead. That’s what life is all about, right? Having the BEST time of your life!

• And finally, check out this interesting article from the San Francisco Chronicle about entrepreneurs making New Year's Resolutions for their businesses. The article isn't specific to women entrepreneurs, but all the examples they use are from women:

Two years after starting a business making healthy frozen meals for young children, San Franciscan Jill Litwin resolved that 2007 would be the year she introduced her products at a trade show. 

... But simply renting a booth would cost $4,000. Outfitting it with high-quality displays would be another $10,000 to $12,000, which was more than she could afford.  

So Litwin came up with a creative do-it-yourself solution. A designer friend used PVC pipe and Velcro to create a beautiful booth for free. Litwin drove it down to Anaheim in her jeep. Her mother flew out from Milwaukee to help staff the booth.  

... The upshot? Litwin landed a national distributor, which had been her second goal for the year.