Women Entrepreneurs: Turning Disadvantages Into Advantages (published at PreFlightVentures.com, Feb.2005)
PreFlight Ventures Inc. Project Manager, Mai Nguyen, considers the barriers that currently exist for female entrepreneurs and offers solutions to these barriers based on research. The article is was published in 2005 as a free perk of the company’s business consulting service website.
Topic: Should the new administration offer incentives for investing in women-owned businesses?
Category: Institutional
What is it? An online article published by the Preflight Ventures Inc. project manager, Mai Nguyen.
Title: Women Entrepreneurs: Turning Disadvantages Into Advantages
Publication Information: Published February 2005 at preflightventures.com under the coaching tools tab.
Author: Mai Nguyen
Location:
http://www.preflightventures.com/resources/WomenEntrepreneursLitSurvey01-2005.pdf
Accessed: February 11, 2009. 21:15 PST
Support:
Mai Nguyen- Preflight Ventures Inc. Project Manager
Balderson. D.W. Canadian Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. 5th Ed. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2003, University of Lethbridge (pp. 36).
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Buttner. E. H. & Moore. D.P. (1997) Women’s Organizational Exodus to Entrepreneurship: Self-Reported Motivations and Correlates with Success. Journal of Small Business Management. (pp. 34-46).
Gundry. L. K., Ben-Yoseph. M., & Posig. M. (2002) Contemporary Perspectives on Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Review and Strategic Recommendations. Journal of Enterprising Culture. Vol. 10, No.1 (pp.67-86).
Helms. M. (1997) Women and Entrepreneurship: The Appealing Alternative. Business Perspectives. Vol. 10, il (pp. 16-19). Gale Group- Information Integrity.
Weiler. S. & Bernasek. A. (2001) Dodging the Glass Ceiling? Networks and the New Wave of Women Entrepreneurs. The Social Science Journal, 38, (pp. 85-103) Elsevier Science Inc.
Audience and Agenda: PreFlight Ventures is a business consulting service. The business is located in Morrisville, NC. The two services they offer are deal making assistance and workshops. The website serves as a communication function for the business. The website offers free resources for entrepreneurs such as guidebooks, audio tips and articles. Data concerning the company’s website traffic is unavailable due to the fact that it was only published at PreFlightVentures.com. Their website claims that the business has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs with practical business strategy and coaching resulting in over 100 co-development, licensing, marketing, funding, and acquisition deals. For some customers, they work on a 100% contingency basis. According to Spoke.com, the business makes less than one million dollars profit annually and has less than fifty paid employees. Their business mission is to assist hopeful entrepreneurs through personal interaction.
Usefulness: The article addresses the infrastructural issues facing female entrepreneurs and provides answers to the imbalances concerning the gender of business owners. The audience of the article is the business’s potential customers. The author of the article offers professional opinions based on research and statistics to encourage entrepreneurs and to educate them as to the current business environment. An article from the Social Science Journal, Dodging the Glass Ceiling? Networks and the New Wave of Women Entrepreneurs, which Nguyen refers to, illustrates the main barriers for women entrepreneurs. Nguyen offers solutions to these barriers by using her own professional experience. The article does not suggest any political policies or agendas that should be considered to deal with the inequalities that women entrepreneurs face.
Works Cited:
http://www.preflightventures.com/resources/womenentrepreneurs.html
http://www.preflightventures.com/resources/WomenEntrepreneursLitSurvey01-2005.pdf
http://www.spoke.com/info/c5PbW9W/PreflightVenturesInc;jsessionid=eahz1j71711h
http://www.preflightventures.com/
http://www.quantcast.com/profile/no-data-for-site?domain=www.preflightventures.com#
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620210/description#description
Filed under: Institutional Sources, Source Notes Tagged: | PreFlight Ventures, Women Entrepreneurs, women-owned businesses
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