The co-founder of the Huffington Post marks its arrival in the UK with a lecture on love, guilt and getting what you want. She talks to Celia Walden.
Fresh off the plane from LA, the Greek American author, businesswoman and co-founder of internet newspaper the Huffington Post – bought by internet provider AOL for $US315 million ($298 million) in February this year and launched in Britain last week… read the full story & more
With thanks to www.workingmother.com…
Behind many major events, there is often a working mother making things happen. In the case of the upcoming royal wedding that woman is Carole Middleton, Kate Middleton’s entrepreneurial mum.
The elder Middleton was a stay at home mom when she launched Party Pieces in 1987 in the UK. Kate was 5 at the time and Carole landed on the idea for the business when she was unable to find affordable party bag presents for her children’s parties. The business grew to the point where her husband Michael quit his job as a flight dispatcher to help run it.
Now of course Carole is in the news for her royal connections, but that doesn’t mean her achievements as a working mother are any less admirable. The business now boasts 30 employees and visits to the company website surged 163% when William and Kate announced their engagement.
Read more about Carole Middleton in a recent Newsweek article.
By Rob Walling for ChangeThis.com.
Single founders creating products for niche markets are known by another name: micropreneurs.
Micropreneurs may write software. They might design themes for a blogging platform. They may produce exquisite wedding invitations, or how-to books. Micropreneurs are agile, inspired, independent, knowledge seekers who can’t live with the 9-to-5 status quo.
If this resonates with you, read on. This manifesto attempts to distill the key points you’ll need as you begin your micropreneur journey.
I learned every one of them the hard way…
Again, whilst I’m not fussed on yet another version of the entrepreneur tag, Rob offers plenty of good stuff to assist in alleviating start-up pain that we have all experienced in some form or other. Enjoy!
Ken Phillips (Exec. Dir.) and the team at “>Click here for the full article:
Some of Simon’s observations include:
“… entrepreneurial economies [are] based on knowledge and ideas rather than economies of scale.”
“There are big differences between the former industrial ‘managed’ economies and the new ‘entrepreneurial’ economies.”
“One outcome is that, while a managed economy favours large businesses and corporate managements, an entrepreneurial economy offers more advantages for small businesses and more opportunities and rewards for entrepreneurs.”
“Although there may be clear signs that the successful economies of the future will be entrepreneurial economies, a lot of our thinking has not caught up with this and is still derived from assumptions which were more appropriate to the earlier second-wave Fordist era when big business ruled.”…
and here’s to the launch of “The Feminine Entrepreneur” (by delightful fellow entrepreneurial mother, Cath Resnick)… If there were more “Cath’s” around, the world would be a better place…Happy International Women’s Day…
and to illustrate what I mean, she shares the first of her insights in this article.
Enjoy!
