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The Girl's Guide
to Starting Your Own Business: candid
advice, frank talk, and true stories
for the successful entrepreneur. (HarperResource,
2003) Caitlin Friedman & Kimberly
Yorio. ISBN 0-06-052157-0.
Very easy to read yet substantive
with practical advice and interviews.
Does a good job of equally highlighting
the positive and negative aspects of
business ownership. |
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Careerpreneurs:
Lessons from leading women entrepreneurs
on building a career without boundaries. (Davies-Black 2000)
Dorothy Perrin Moore. ISBN 0-89106-144-4. |
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The Old Girls'
Network: Insider Advice for Women Building
Businesses in a Man's World. (Basic
Books 2003) Sharon Whiteley, Kathy
Elliott, and Connie Duckworth. ISBN
0-7382-0806-X.
Practical advice on how to network
and break mental logjams in getting
started on an entrepreneurial adverture.
Great section at the end called the “tool
kit” ranging from how to conduct
a competitive analysis to a sample
non-disclosure agreement (NDA). |
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Pitch like
a girl: how a woman can be herself
and still succeed. (Rodale
2005) Ronna Lichtenberg.
ISBN 13-978-I-009-6. |
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Stop Whining & Start
Winning: 8 surefire ways for women
to thrive in business. (Penguin/Plume
2005) Molly Dickinson Shepard with
Jane K. Stimmler. ISBN 0-452-28692-1.
Not so focused on women entrepreneurs per
se, this book has advice with
a broader application to business
women, such as communication style
and relationship building techniques.
One of our favorite chapters was “Stop
beating around the bush and start
networking.” |
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She Wins, You
Win: The Most Important Rule Every
Businesswoman Needs To Know. (Penguin/Gotham
2003), Gail Evans.
A call to action and suggestions
for women on how to help one another
in creating the networks that lead
to success. |
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Clearing the
Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth
Businesses. Candida Brush,
Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood,
Patricia G. Greene, Myra M. Hart. (Financial
Times/Prentice Hall 2004) ISBN 0-13-111201-5.
A comprehensive study examines why
more women don't oversee or start high
growth (higher revenue generating)
businesses and focuses on how to improve
your access to venture capital. Compiles
advice from experts on why the way
things are now, and how women can become
success in getting money to grow their
businesses. |
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Martha Rules:
10 Essentials for achieving success
as you start, build, or manage a
business. Martha Stewart
(Rodale 2005) ISBN 13-978-1-59486-470-4. |
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Kitchen Table
Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women escaped
poverty and became their own bosses. Martha
Shirt and Anna S. Wadia. (Westview
Press 2002). ISBN 0-8133-3910-3 |
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How to Run
Your Business like a Girl: successful
strategies from entrepreneurial women
who made it happen. Elizabeth
Cogswell Baskin (Adams Media 2005).
ISBN 1-59337-455-0. |
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Millionaire Women
Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful
American Businesswomen. Thomas
J. Stanley, phD. Andrews McMeel Publishing
2004, ISBN 0-7407-4532-8.
Characteristics of successful self-made
millionaire business women, profiles
successful wealthy women in different
careers, mostly self-employed, both
in the office and home. He also looks
at the role of charity and sharing
wealth as part of the journey. |
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