Monday, March 31, 2008

Monday Linkblogging: Women Entrepreneurs


  • The Gulf Daily News has an interview with Huda Janahi, the first Bahraini woman to receive the GCC Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Getting a commercial registration (CR) was the biggest obstacle as I was told at the Labour Ministry that only males were allowed a CR for cargo businesses. However, there was a misunderstanding. When I joined the United Nations Development Organisation (Unido) for its Arab Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training (Arceit), I told them my problem and they said there was no law that stated that women cannot get CRs for cargo businesses. They advised me to go to the ministry after they contacted officials there and soon I was granted a CR.
  • An article in the Maryland Gazette.net features Jennifer D. Collins, recently honored by Enterprising Women magazine.
Jennifer D. Collins had been steadily growing the event-planning company she started in 1997 until the hospitality industry was hit hard by the 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. People stopped traveling to hold meetings, so she had to tap into her communications expertise to also provide clients with meeting strategies to keep her business afloat, she said.
To be sure, getting your MBA isn't a prerequisite for becoming a successful entrepreneur. But one thing is for certain, at least according to our sources at some of the nation's top-ranked MBA programs: Whether you're looking for a program with the best professors, the best classroom experience or the greatest opportunity for women, business schools are the place to be--especially if you are interested in innovation, entrepreneurship and real-life case studies.
  • Business Opportunist blog posts about niche marketing for home-based businesses:
You don’t have access to viable means and amenities to compete directly with large business houses and serve a broad spectrum of consumers. In such an adverse business scenario, niche marketing emerges as the most feasible and cost effective strategy that can help home business owners to stay ahead of their competitors and maximize their profits.

2 comments:

Sgt. Joe Roos said...

My name is Sgt. Joe Roos. I work with the 34th Infantry Division in Basra, Iraq.

I thought you might find some of the things we're doing here for women's initiatives - especially promoting women entrepreneurs - to be interesting. It certainly is an uphill battle for us, but I think we are doing good work and I think we are making progress while we are here.

Iraqi women take business into their own hands
http://www.theredbulls.org/article244

Babil nurses, midwives receive new skills
http://www.theredbulls.org/article243

Have a good one.

Original post: August 06, 2009 at 03:08 AM

S Micheals said...

This is an enlightening blog post that has opened my eyes to new avenues that need to be explored.

Original post: November 25, 2008 at 09:00 PM