In one of the most beloved talks from TED2007, novelist Isabel Allende talks about writing, women, passion, feminism. She tells the stories of powerful women she has known, some larger-than-life (listen for a beauty tip from Sophia Loren), and some simply living with grace, dignity and ingenuity in a world that, in too many ways, [...]

1. When women in their professions speak their minds – it is referred to as emotional outburst.
2. When they take decisions on their own – it is assumed that they are not listening to anyone.
3. When they build new relationships – it is thought that they are too outgoing.
4. When women form their own [...]

Last week, I spent most of my time talking to women. I was curious to learn what inhibits them to design new practices to succeed in today’s global world.
Here are a few of my findings:
1. Lack of time: They are juggling the demands of work life and are challenged to find time to learn new [...]

For over more than a year, I have bootstrapped the company. Like all good things, my personal investment and investment made by my advisor has come to an end. So, here we are with a vision so grand and lacking couple of grands to keep building on the momentum we have.
Last month, I spoke [...]

When I was in my MBA program in New York in 2003, I came across Seth’s book, All marketers are Liars. For a graduate student, pursuing an MBA in Marketing, I had all the reasons to read this book. Needless to say, every word of it was very insightful.
Fast forward four years and in 2007, [...]

Are you ready to start your own start up? Do you ever think how many women have their own companies? Do they raise capital?
Here are some interesting stats:
# 1 – Historically, women-led companies have received only 2.4% of venture capital investments; some years, they received no funding at all. *
#2 – 10.6 million firms [...]

Here is an interesting statistic:
Statistic # 1
Women business owners who obtained capital persevered, making an average of four attempts to obtain bank loans or lines of credit and 22 attempts to obtain equity capital ( source, Center of women business research)

Statistic # 2
Nearly 10.4 million firms are owned by women (50% or more), employing [...]

Today, I was talking to chief of diversity of an international company. In our conversation, we felt that employees today need training on personal branding to propel their careers in a big multinational corporation . So, I decided to start working on designing a workshop to offer training on building a personal brand.
The quote below [...]

I was recently invited by IndiaOn, a premier online community for Indian professionals in the US, to be featured as the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’. As I started you respond to the interview, it made me revisit my experiences over the last year. It gave me a chance to reflect into the past [...]