Women in Business


Recent Women in Business Articles

Old Hollywood Beauty With Natural Formulas

A makeup artist since age nine, Jessica Truesdale was inspired by beauty-industry legends like Estée Lauder and Elizabeth Arden, and founded True You Cosmet...  Read more

Case Study: How to Restart a Company

Could Robin Sauve's bid to relaunch a business backfire? Here's how she managed to finance her start-up through the early stages.  Read more

The Way I Work: Jamie Latshaw of Lexicon

Jamie Latshaw is a stay-at-home mom. She also runs one of the fastest-growing companies in America.  Read more

Microloans for Women in Business

A new program called FITE provides microloans to women in business.  Read more

What Does It Take to Become an Entrepreneur—Psychopathy?

Brazen Careerist blogger Penelope Trunk shares with Inc.com contributor John Warrillow who is and who is not cut out for entrepreneurship.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Desert Jet

How a female aviator shook up the industry by founding her own aircraft charter company  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Putney

How one Maine company is providing low-cost, quality medication to petsâ€"and the veterinarians who treat them  Read more

Reader Mail: February 2011

Responses to recent stories, including Jason Fried’s column about raising prices and Meg Hirshberg’s column about entrepreneurship and divorce.  Read more

A Sustainability Pioneer

Wendi Goldsmith leads a business that helps other companies to embrace going green.  Read more

Part Guru, Part Glamour, and Fully Sustainable

At 26, model Summer Rayne Oakes is on a mission to transform the $300 billion fashion industry into a model of sustainability.  Read more

The Romance of Good Deeds

Meg Cadoux Hirshberg explains why building a business with a strong social mission can also be great for your marriage.  Read more

InDinero Fixes Money Management

Jessica Mah, the 20-year-old CEO of inDinero, is improving upon what QuickBooks has done and is making financial tracking easier for small businesses.  Read more

From Nonprofit to For-Profit Success

Amy Norquist took her environmental nonprofit experience and created Greensulate, which builds rooftop meadows.  Read more

Say Yes to Solar

With their company SunRun, Lynn Jurich and Edward Fenster have created a way to get solar panels on homes for little or no cost.  Read more

How to Write a Great Internal Newsletter

An internal company newsletter about what's happening day to day can be a great way to create a sense of transparency and open the lines of communication at ...  Read more

Annie Wang, Co-Founder of HerCampus.com 

Co-founder and chief technology officer of HerCampus.com Annie Wang talks about building a successful web business.  Watch video

How I Did It: Eileen Fisher

Fashion’s un-diva never forgets what her customers want: simple, timeless styles.  Read more

The Way I Work: Lani Hay of Lanmark Technology

Government contractor Lani Hay spends her days meeting with politicians, partying with celebrities, and advising the military.  Read more

Why Documenting Business Operations is Important

How a boring thing like documenting business processes can make your company hum.  Read more

From Lifeguard to CEO

How my first job as a lifeguard ultimately prepared me for running an e-mail marketing business.  Read more

Women Business Owners – Stand Up and Be Recognized!

It's about time women are recognized for their contribution to businesses big and small. Check out what I think about amazing women business owners!  Read more

8 Places To Find Advocates for Your Business

Your business has customers who love you and who love to talk about you. Now it's time to locate those people who love to shout from the mountain tops about ...  Read more

A Supplier of Film Extras Now Trains Military Troops

Jamie Arundell-Latshaw's company Lexicon Consulting creates mock villages to help train troops who are headed overseas.  Read more

America's Fastest-Growing Human Resources Company

As CEO of Pursuit of Excellence, Marie Diaz coaches clients on leadership and organizational development.  Read more

My Company Has Been an Inc. 500|5000 Winner 5 Years in a Row!

How winning and marketing awards can help your business grow.  Read more

CEOs Have More Clients Than Anyone

Trying to make everyone happy - from employees to customers - is a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. This article takes a look at all the different types...  Read more

Managing Your Inbox

So your inbox runneth over with emails. How do you manage to get through it all? For busy CEOs and executives it all comes down to sorting and prioritizing ...  Read more

The Importance of Goal Setting

Your employees would love to know what they can do to not only be successful themselves, but to help the company succeed. The top goals are usually around re...  Read more

9 Things I Learned In 9 Years as a CEO – Part 2

This post is about the final four lessons I learned throughout 9 years leading VerticalResponse. Areas covered include core values, training and loving what ...  Read more

9 Things I Learned In 9 Years as a CEO – Part 1

This two-part post is about the 9 things I've learned leading a growing business for the past 9 years. These lessons might help you ease over your own bumps,...  Read more

Angry Customers: Kill 'Em With Kindness

We’ve learned something over the course of 9 years at VerticalResponse: killing people with kindness will get you everywhere. Here are 3 examples that have...  Read more

How Respecting Competition Wins Business

What should you say when a prospective customer asks, "How are you different from your competition?"  Read more

Small Town Gets a Boost from the Twilight Craze

The famed Twilight saga has changed the shape of small businesses in tiny Forks, Wash., where the books are based.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Elf on the Shelf

How a holiday tradition turned into a multi-million dollar toy and book business.  Read more

Dixon Schwabl: Lauren Dixon

Dixon S...  Read more