10 books about inspiration, business success and life lessons from the most famous business women - from Sheryl Sandberg and Arianna Huffington to Mary Kay.
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These books, which successful women sharing their career stories and giving advice to aspiring entrepreneurs will be a source of inspiration for all women, and even better - success.
Follow Sandberg's impassioned message to women: “Break through! Fight! Fight! Rush forward!
Sheryl Sandburg Dare to Take Action: Woman, Work, and the Will to Lead
Publisher:"Alpina-Publisher", Moscow, 2014
The main reason for the crazy success of Sheryl Sandberg's book, which calls on all women to actively fight for their business rights, is, of course, not in career advice for women starting their careers.
"Don't Be Afraid to Act" is, first of all, the story of the epiphany of the heroine herself, her own coming out, her way to the recognition that even successful women do not get what men get.
They are less listened to, they are paid less, they are less likely to be promoted, and so on. Well, those few who are lucky enough to make a career and achieve high positions are trying to become their own in men's world and prefer not to talk about injustice against women or not to notice it at all.
The situation seems so familiar - and not only in America, but even more so in Russia with its boyish code, where the most violent opponents of feminism sit in leadership positions and in the highest echelons of power.
The only way to change this, according to Sandberg, is to abandon the eternal role of the second plan, and begin to act on her own. Be bold, loud, active, because the main reason for the success of men most often turns out to be that they are louder, more active and fearless.
All this is said by a man who really achieved everything - oh career success Sandberg, CEO and board member of Facebook, most men can't even dream of.
Main lesson: In order to succeed in life, you need to work on this from the school bench - stretch your hand above everyone in the lesson, sit closer to the leader at conferences, not be afraid to ask for an increase in salary, and not be afraid at all, because it is fear that makes a woman helpless.
Quote:“Ask a man to explain how he achieved success, and he will most likely begin to talk about his own talents and skills. Ask the same question to a woman and she is likely to attribute her success to external factors, claiming that she owes her luck to "trying hard", "she was lucky", or "she was helped".
Mary Kay Ash "The Road to Success"
Publisher:"Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", Moscow, 2009
This book was translated in Russia relatively recently - on a new wave of its success in America. In the 60s, it was such a business fairy tale with a happy ending: management pampers employees, employees, in turn, pamper customers, and above all this, like a kind mother, stands Mary Kay herself and invents cosmetics.
And until now, new employees of the company receive this book as a gift to be inspired that they can do anything. And many are really inspired. But in the 2000s, Mary Kay's optimistic and carefree book received a new reading.
On the new wave of feminism, she really became a book about a woman who could - her husband left, raised three children, they didn’t give a raise, because the woman, and she retired and already built an entire empire there. And we are no longer so interested in how she did it, it is more important to know - in spite of what. This is a new take on a classic.
Main lesson: One of the first women's success stories with the moral "the lower you fall, the higher the rise." It is important not only that she herself was able, but also that she promised millions of women around the world that they, too, would succeed - and they did.
Quote:“The world of business is the world of men. And the most obvious proof of that is on the dollar bills in your wallet.”
Sofia Amoruso "#GIRLBOSS"
Release year: 2014
And this is the same Sheryl Sandberg, only for girls - or rather, for bad girls, which does not interfere with her deafening American popularity.
And if other directors read the book of the CEO of Facebook with the greatest pleasure, then Sophia Amuroso, founder of the online clothing store Nasty Gal, writes for everyone else: those who did not graduate from Harvard did not get influential mentors and generally flew past the beaten track that leads in the administration of presidents and boards of directors of large companies.
Sophia, a patented loser by all accounts, started her business by selling stolen books on Ebay, then moved into vintage dresses, neatly pinning wishes of good luck to buyers on each item sold - and now she has a company worth more than $ 100 million.
And, in general, Sofia’s main commandment sounds like this: everything is laid in you to succeed, as long as you, with a healthy share of cheerful gouging, turn into an iron business woman, then into an office fifa, then into a friendly the owner of a small shop, you believe in yourself and do not give up.
Until the book is translated into Russian, it can only be read in the original.
Main lesson: In order to achieve success, it is not at all necessary to pretend to be someone - you can be a fun punk, and still turn millions.
Quote:"Don't grow up, don't be a bore, and never let a man get you!"
Arianna Huffington "Thrive"
Release year: 2014
Arianna Huffington is, perhaps, one of the main names in modern journalism today, no matter how contempt we treat news aggregators and other blogs.
Huffington also did not want to be taken seriously for a long time, but simple idea luring celebrities to the Internet brought her a name, a fortune, and a Forbes cover.
However, the book by the creator of the Huffington Post is remarkable not so much as a success story, but as a call to treat success differently. Her own story begins with fainting from overwork and the realization of the need to start living differently.
Instead of sleepless nights, burning out at work, chasing salaries - meditation, sleep, proper nutrition and the call to sometimes disconnect from your smartphone. In other words, success does not always necessarily mean internal combustion, you can live correctly and calmly and still keep your line on the lists of millionaires.
Such insights from a woman whose career is already nowhere better can be slightly annoying, because she already has nowhere to strive. But think for yourself - it was this, the fourteenth, Huffington's book that in order to be successful in the race you can sometimes get out of it, became her main bestseller.
In the end, the idea of “a healthy mind in a healthy body” in a world in which the more successful a person is, the more tightly he sits on antidepressants, seems more than relevant.
Main idea: A healthy spirit of entrepreneurship is found only in a healthy body.
Quote:“We mistakenly believe that success depends on the amount of time invested in it, while the quality of this time is actually much more important.”
Martha Stewart "The Martha Rules"
Release year: 2005
Since it’s hard to imagine a woman who has earned more money from her own work than Martha Stewart, it would be nice to heed her advice.
The very biography of Martha Stewart could teach us a lot - a woman who amassed an entire empire simply by portraying a happy housewife.
Today, the name of Martha Stewart has become a household name for everything that traditional female values seem to us - a pretty house, a well-kept house, a fresh pie on the table and flowers-flowers-flowers.
It's not so much the devotion of Americans to Martha Stewart that's amazing, but the latter's ability to capitalize on everything she touches, earning millions and millions from gardening books, household items and cooking shows and websites.
In 2004, Martha Stewart was imprisoned for six months for foul play on stock exchange. What did not stop her from turning the prison experience in her favor: she made a revolution in the prison cafeteria, started an affair with a security guard, and right after she left, she wrote the book “Martha's Rules”, the title of which can also be read as a confession of her own inflexibility - “Martha rules!”.
Inside - not autobiographical revelations, but very specific advice on running your own business. How to write a business plan, how to communicate with partners, how to recruit a team, and how to succeed doing only what you have a soul for.
Main lesson: There is no such situation from which a smart woman could not profit.
Quote:"Never accept what is offered to you if you feel it could be improved."
Irina Khakamada “Tao of life. Master class from a convinced individualist»
Publisher:"Alpina Publishers", Moscow, 2011U
Irina Khakamada has a funny way of methodically confirming each of her statements with a list of several points: “the first, second, sixth ... - and the last”, and then five more sub-points.
In general, this text, in which there are almost more aphorisms than words, could use a good editor. Then behind the author's sayings, famously mixed with popular philosophy, oriental wisdom, glossy words that littered our 90s and self-help mixed with advice on how to arrange women's happiness, I would have stood up real story Irina Khakamada herself about how from an ugly duckling she turned into a successful beautiful woman.
In the meantime, this plot line remains practically between the lines, and it is the most interesting thing here. And yet, Khakamada is an impressive example of success, and most importantly, very Russian.
Although she did not succeed in rebuilding the entire fatherland, and it is completely impossible to represent her in modern politics, she created herself and is now receiving excellent dividends from herself. It's funny, but I want to note her books precisely for this - how through them that image of a successful woman is recreated, at the same time smart and a little fifa, which is very much appreciated precisely (and only) in Russia.
Main lesson: In Russia, there is no - or no longer - such a thing as a successful woman politician. So the books of Irina Khakamada fill in an important gap, showing us what a real self-made woman at the heights of power could be like. The main success of the author lies precisely in the fact that, having abandoned the heights, she does not cease to be a heroine.
Quote:"The main thing is to be happy, not the first under any circumstances."
Betty Holbreich "I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist"
Release year: 2014
But the heroine, whose sense of style and sharpness of the word is hard not to envy. Despite the fact that Betty Holbreich has already changed her ninth decade, she remains one of the main authorities in fashion matters in her Manhattan.
Moreover, this outstanding woman worked all her career in the same place, without promotion - as a personal stylist in the legendary Bergdoff department store.
This is a profession that Holbreich practically invented, and there is still no one in the world who knows how to dress women better than she does. In her book, Holbreich tells how she got to the Bergdoff almost straight from a psychiatric hospital.
A girl from a wealthy Chicago family, whose friends were replaced by dresses and beautiful things from childhood, she lived in a cocoon until the age of fifty, raising children and obeying her husband, until the children grew up and her husband turned into an alcoholic.
And fifty-year-old Betsy, who had never worked in her life, went to the Bergdoff department store, where she specially invented the role of a personal stylist for herself, because she could not cope with cash register and failed to become a saleswoman.
Goldbreich, however, is worth reading not only to make sure that age is not a hindrance to business - it is a fascinating, inspiring read about the role of clothing in a woman's life, about the shortcomings that we are trying to hide, and the virtues that we ourselves do not notice.
Main lesson: It doesn’t matter how old you are and what you can do - Betty Holbreich was almost fifty and she didn’t know anything at all, but this did not stop her from becoming almost the most famous stylist in the world.
Quote:“Young women today dedicate so much to staying in shape that they hardly ever get out of their tracksuits.
It doesn't leave much room for the imagination. In my day, when traveling by plane, we made sure to wear a suit, gloves, and a hat. And the last time I was at the airport, I almost mistook it for a fitness center.”
Alexandra Vilkis and Alexis Maybank "By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop"
Release year: 2012
Perhaps you have never been to America and have never heard of Gilt Groupe, so you can check the box next to a business idea that has not yet been implemented in Russia.
In short, the formula for the success of this online store comes down to three seemingly incompatible words: fast, cheap and exclusive. Gilt is a virtual sales service that can only be accessed by personal invitation.
Here they sell things famous brands at stock prices, but at the same time positioning itself not as a flea market, but as an elite club. The business is valued at over a billion dollars. All this is the merit of two girlfriends who came up with it, graduates of Harvard.
And they generously share advice for future startups, and very practical advice, especially on how friendship can become the main business asset. Two friends: one punctual and organized, the other impulsive and creative, came together like ice and fire, and the key to their success is precisely the ability to stop and listen to each other.
Main lesson: Sometimes the right business education really helps build a million dollar company out of nothing. Or a billion.
Quote:"Great human dream: Seeing something you create grow into something immeasurably bigger… proves that amazing things happen when you team up with the right people, take risks and are willing to take action.”
Pamela Skaist-Levi and Gela Nash-Taylor "The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand"
Release year: 2014
The founding story of Juicy Couture as told by founders Pamela Skaist-Levi and Gela Nash-Taylor. The two models, who couldn't find clothes they liked, scraped together $200 in seed money and vowed to each other never to do anything they didn't have a heart for.
So velor was born tracksuits, suitcases embroidered with rhinestones, dog perfume and a stamp worth half a million dollars.
Like the brand itself, Pamela and Gela's book proves that even in business, sometimes it's worth trusting feelings rather than reason: their rapid onslaught - without any business plan, but with sending gifts to Hollywood superstars and the certainty that people like them , no more.
Main lesson: Not everyone succeeds in doing business like rock stars - without any plan, on a whim, following a feeling, not the lessons of the Harvard school. But sometimes it works, and when it works, it works just fine.
Quote:“It was important for us to hear the opinion of our employees about the collection - how it sits, how it feels, what kind of energy it has. Everyone tried on everything - that was our corporate policy.
We knew it would be a hit if everyone, from the most stylish to the most conservative girl in the office, started going crazy for it."
Zarina Ivanter " kids club: how to open and make profitable»
Publisher:"Mann, Ivanov and Farber", M., 2012
This is more of a very detailed primer than a classic success story. But with answers to all Russian questions, such as legal nuances, rules for communicating with Sanepidemnadzor, details of the operation of word of mouth, and even a separate chapter about the need for paper toilet seats.
The story of Zarina Ivanter's transformation from an Expert journalist and mother on maternity leave to the hostess of a club for developing children's activities is probably one of the most inspiring stories for those who are not yet in business, but really want to be in it.
It is not about the formula for success that allows you to instantly fly into the queens of the world, but about that everyday hard work, which only at first seems tedious, but in the end turns into good dividends.
Main lesson: Features of running a small business in Russian conditions It will be hard, but not for long.
Quote:“Give diplomas, medals, gilded goblets and laurel wreaths more often. This will be a good reason for your parents to tell everyone they know about you.”
Elizabeth Holmes, co-founder of Theranos
State:$4.5 billion
Age: 31 year
Sphere: biotechnology
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Family status: Single
Holmes founded in 2003 after her uncle died of too late diagnosed cancer. Dropping out of the prestigious engineering department at Stanford University and inspired by the principles of Steve Jobs, Holmes thought about the technology of early detection of diseases and made a revolutionary breakthrough in the blood testing industry. Theranos method allows you to conduct dozens of studies, having a microscopic volume of biomaterial. Thanks to the development of the company, a few drops of blood are taken from the patient’s finger almost painlessly, which are then placed in the unit for analysis. The results are entered into a special database available, for example, to the attending physician and the patient himself.
In 2013, Theranos blood donation machines were installed in the branches of Walgreens, the largest pharmacy chain in the United States. 41 mobile laboratories have already been opened. In 2014, investors valued the company at $9 billion, and Holmes became the youngest female billionaire in the world.
Skeptics blame Theranos for the unreliability of the results. To prove otherwise, the company took the unexpected step of handing over all the data to the US Department of Health Food and Drug Administration. However, large customers - and among them pharmaceutical company Pfizer and even the US Department of Defense - no rumors are embarrassing. Moreover, many famous people sit on the board of Theranos, including former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Beyoncé, musician, producer
State:$250 million
Age: 33
Sphere: Show Business
Location: New York, USA
Family status: married, daughter
In 2014, Beyonce Knowles completed the successful Mrs. Carter Show World Tour and surprised everyone with the Beyonce album. But instead of taking a break, less than a year later, the singer, along with her husband, musician and producer Sean Jay-Z Carter, embarked on a new On The Run tour. 19 concerts in different states brought the star couple about $ 100 million. Beyoncé's total income for last year was about $500 million.
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO
State:$380 million
Age: 40
Sphere: IT
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Family status: married, son
While most of Mayer's personal fortune is the result of her 13 years at Google, she became one of the highest paid executives in the US precisely as the CEO of Yahoo, when her annual salary increased by 69% in a year, to $ 42 million. All three years of work at the head of the Internet giant, she actively engaged in content change and led an aggressive policy in the market, buying up about forty startups. But Yahoo's results are still underwhelming, and Mayer is finding it increasingly difficult to resist pressure from investors to cut costs. In January 2015, Yahoo's CEO announced plans to divest Asian assets, including China's Alibaba shares. It is expected that this will allow Yahoo to focus on the core business.
Adi Tatarko, co-founder of Houzz
State:$300 million
Age: 42
Sphere: Interior design
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Family status: married, three children
Financial consultant Adi Tatarko founded the online design project Houzz with her husband Alon Cohen. The business idea came about when the family was renovating their home in Palo Alto. The couple started by creating a small forum where they could share ideas and find the designer's contacts. Now the chat has turned into a site with 30 million monthly users, a third of which is owned by the Tatarko-Cohen family. More than 700,000 professional designers cooperate with the company. The Houzz office is located in Silicon Valley and has about 500 employees. Investors, including Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates, have invested more than $213 million in the startup. Since then, the company's market value, according to experts, has grown to $2 billion. Eight more representative offices of the company have been opened in different countries of the world, including Russia.
Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx
State:$1 billion
Age: 44
Sphere: fashion
Location: Atlanta, USA
Family status: married, three children
When 15 years ago, having $5000 start-up capital, the 29-year-old founded her own company with an office in her Atlanta apartment, she never thought that she would become a billionaire. She invented and patented slimming underwear - innovative tights with no seams, no feet and a brand new elastic waistband - and sent a product sample to the editors of Oprah Winfrey. Soon, the TV presenter on the air of her program called the Spanx product "revolutionary."
In 2012, Blakely became the youngest self-made woman on the Forbes list. A year later, she became the first female billionaire to join the Giving Pledge movement, promising to bequeath half her fortune to charity. In 2014 she presented new collection Slimming and shaping denim items, including underwear and sportswear.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
State:$1.07 billion
Age: 45
Sphere: IT
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Family status: widow, two children
At $160 billion Facebook, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is responsible for sales, marketing, business development, people and communications. Under her leadership, the company has improved its performance and changed the strategy of working with mobile applications.
Sandburg knows exactly how to get attention. Last year, she became the best-selling author of Dare to Take Action, which won the support of many famous women(among them, other participants in the rating are Yahoo president Marissa Mayer and singer Beyoncé). After the release of the book, thousands of followers of Sandberg's philosophy appeared, a sequel, "Take action - for graduates" was released, and Sony Pictures got permission to make a film based on the book. In May 2014, Sandberg became a member of The Giving Pledge, promising to give at least half of her wealth to charity.
In May 2015, Sandberg's husband and partner, Dave Goldberg, who ran the online survey service SurveyMonkey, died in an accident.
Tory Burch, designer
State:$1 billion
Age: 48
Sphere: fashion, fashion design
Location: New York, USA
Family status: divorced, three children
Almost 10 years ago, former journalist Tory Burch appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Daytime Show, which called her the biggest discovery in the fashion world. At that time, Birch had only one store in the Nolita district of Manhattan, and she herself was just beginning her career as a fashion designer. Over the years, the company named after her has grown into a real retail empire, the value of which is estimated at $3 billion.
Tory Burch is called the queen of bohemian chic. But Reva ballet flats, named after her mother, made her famous. Stylish shoes of different colors costing $200 instantly became almost the main footwear of the USA.
Burch is constantly expanding his business: over the past year, a watch line was launched with Fossil, and Tory Burch cosmetics and fragrances are now sold outside the United States. Burch's next step is to launch a line of trendy sportswear and yoga wear. She also runs Elizabeth Street Capital, a Tory Burch Foundation joint project that supports women entrepreneurs, and Bank of America.
Liz Elting, co-founder of TransPerfect
State:$310 million
Age: 49
Sphere: language translations
Location: New York, USA
Family status: married, two children
Liz Elting and her fiancé Phil Shave came up with TransPerfect while studying at New York University. Nearly 20 years later, the translation company has become one of the largest in the world. It employs over 4,000 people and has more than 90 offices on six continents. The agency's clients include telecommunications AT&T, fruit and vegetable seller Dole, and retail chain Wal-Mart.
The company's sales in the last year alone have risen 17% to $470 million, despite the fact that Elting and Shave have divorced and no longer work together. Each of them accused the former partner of ineffective management and unprofessionalism, and each is now trying to take full control of the company. A Delaware court in New York is due to make a decision before the end of this year.
Jin Suk Chang, co-founder of Forever21
State:$3.1 billion
Age: 52
Sphere: fashion
Location: Beverly Hills, USA
Family status: married, two children
In 1981, Do Won and Jin Sook Chang immigrated to the United States from South Korea. They had a hard time, the family barely made ends meet. But in 1984, they opened their first youth clothing store, Fashion21, in Los Angeles, with an area of less than 300 square meters. m. For the first year, the revenue amounted to $ 700,000, every six months the couple opened a new store. Then the name changed to Forever21.
Today network fashion clothes Forever21 has over 680 stores across America. According to Forbes, the company's revenue in 2014 amounted to $4.4 billion. The business of Jin Suk and Do Won has become a truly family business today - their daughters Esther and Linda are engaged in merchandising in the company.
Weili Dai, co-founder of Marvell Technology Group Ltd
State:$720 million
Age: 53
Sphere: semiconductors
Location: Los Altos Hills, USA
Family status: married, two children
Dai is the only US entrepreneur to successfully run a business in the semiconductor industry. She moved to the States in 1979 from China, where she had previously played in a semi-professional basketball league. After graduating from the University of Berkeley with a degree in computer science, Dai became involved in the creation of software hardware for computers. She co-founded Marvell Technology Group with her husband Seat Sutarja in 1995 and became its president in 2013. "Believe in yourself. If you lead a team, you should be an example for people,” Dai said in an interview with Forbes.
The company's revenue hit $3.7 billion last year. Marvell produces more than a billion chips for Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and Dai has become one of the most powerful figures in the Silicon Valley business ecosystem.
Safra Katz, co-CEO of Oracle
State:$525 million
Age: 53
Sphere: IT
Location: Redwood, USA
Family status: married, two children
Katz is the former CFO of Oracle and the right-hand man of Oracle founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, 16 years after joining the company, she became a co-director of the giant software and the largest supplier of server hardware. In 2014, she had $38 million in revenue. Katz has been involved in 85 M&A transactions over the past 5 years, and much of Oracle's dominance in the industry is her merit.
Sonya Gardner, President, Avenue Capital
State:$380 million
Age: 53
Sphere: finance
Location: New York, USA
Family status: divorced, one child
Sonya Gardner graduated from law school in 1986 and immediately began working with her brother Mark Lasr. At first, they got a job at the law firm Cowen & Co, then dealt with the troubled debts of Texas billionaire Robert Bass, and in 1991 opened their own brokerage company Amroc Investments, which specialized in distressed investments. Four years later, the siblings founded Avenue Capital with $7 million borrowed from family and friends. The company now manages $13 billion in assets. “People often ask me how my brother and I get along,” Gardner said. - We are completely different. But it's impossible to argue with both of us."
In addition to her work at Avenue Capital, Gardner is actively involved in charity work, she is a member of the board of directors of the Her Justice Foundation, which helps victims of domestic violence, medical center The Mount Sinai Medical Center and 100 Women in Hedge Funds.
Cathy Lanne, Entrepreneur
State:$340 million
Age: 53
Sphere: oil
Location: Houston, USA
Family status: married, three children
Cathy Lanna was 23 years old when she founded the oil trading company Sun Coast Resources. Thirty years later, she has become largest company Texas, owned by a woman. Sun Coast Resources has $1.8 billion in revenue and now employs 1,800 people, including Katie's husband. It is one of those companies that, after hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, quickly delivered oil to the affected regions.
Personally, I did not manage to communicate with the entrepreneur of the American edition of Forbes even once. She refused to be interviewed several times, citing personal security rules.
In his free time, Lenne enjoys playing high stakes poker.
Are there differences in the success of a business depending on who runs it, a woman or a man? How do gender differences affect business success, if at all?
Countless articles and studies have been written about this. We do not wish to make reference to such studies and opinions. We bring to your attention small selection interviews (the number of interviews will constantly change through replenishment) with successful foreign women entrepreneurs.
Simple business woman in pictures
Erin Baloga. Inventor of the women's "holster"
Erin Baloga is the most ordinary woman, a mother of three children, a nurse, and later a housewife with no business experience at the start.
But all this did not stop her from creating successful business based on his simple but very popular invention Hot Iron Holster.
We specifically put Erin's story and advice first because she is a unique woman with a unique business destiny. Her story perfectly illustrates the fact that business can be done at any age, even despite the presence of three young children.
I know that I will say simple and banal words, but meanwhile I consider these words to be the main ones in the success of any business: "Be persistent and do not give up."
Do not give up when it is difficult and it seems that there is no strength anymore. Everything passes. Fatigue, misunderstanding, problems will also pass. Everything will go away and you will win.
One of the biggest compliments I've received for my product is: “How great. How it should be!” I like coming up with ideas and bringing them to life.
When I was little, I often listened to audiobooks with biographies of great and interesting people. I enjoyed listening to stories about the life and successes of Walt Disney.
As a child, I thought and dreamed that I wanted to be like this wonderful person in the future. What child does not dream of creating an amusement park and inventing amazing cartoons?
Most of all I am proud of my family. Despite a successful business that is growing day by day, what I am most proud of is that I have created a big and happy family.
I enjoy being a caring mother of three adorable children and a wife, even though I still have a successful business. I organized myself in such a way that one does not interfere with the other, but on the contrary, it helps.
Constantly, even when I have urgent business, I talk on the phone with my four-year-old daughter. Family and children are a priority.
Erin Baloga: “I believe that business ideas for women, business ideas that are suitable for women, are no different from business ideas for men. However, there are also significant factors that influence the direction of the business that women organize. These are interests. Women's interests are significantly different from men's, and therefore a division into women's business and men's business has appeared.
Photo of a business woman earning millions
Anne Besancon. Mobile marketing in your pocket
Kelsey after graduating from the University of Notre Dame where she studied industrial and graphic design worked in several leading European companies but always dreamed of starting her own business.
Growing up in the family of a famous and successful entrepreneur, she decided in 2012 to create own business and as her company's success stories show, she was right.
Tips for Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs: Believe! Believe in yourself, your strength, in the business that you are going to create. Focus on the problems of your customers.
Know what they need and don't get from your competitors. If your business solves your customers' problems and solves them better than your competitors, you are sure to become a successful entrepreneur.
There are many examples in the world when people, even with disabilities, achieved great success. Take a closer look at such examples and understand for those who want to succeed there are no barriers except themselves!
Entrepreneur I admire: The entrepreneur I admire is my mother. She raised four children and built a successful, profitable business in parallel.
Of the "foreign" people, I admire Larry Ellison's business acumen. Like Brin and Larry Page for their commitment to Google culture and their ability to think globally.
My achievements to date: Seeing how our product is used daily by the world's largest brands, I am proud of myself and my business. Being able to serve clients like ESPN and CNN from the first year of its existence is a major achievement in my opinion.
I am also proud that millions of people use my product.
Kelsey Falter: “What kind of business should a woman open? Yes, anyone! Any in which a woman has knowledge. But besides knowledge, it is also important to be passionate about this or that business. Without passion, business will turn into a routine. Routine in business is very bad, it is a road to nowhere. Love what you do. Love your business and you will succeed."
Notes and revelations of a successful woman
Lisa Falzone. Sales support systems
Briefly about the heroine of the interview and her business: Lisa Falzone is the CEO and co-founder of the company Revel Systems
The business created by Lisa is a platform with software solutions for the restaurant and retail grocery business.
The software offered by the company helps thousands of companies to increase their profits through the competent conduct of financial and economic activities.
The Revel systems company for 2013 has more than 1200 regional offices. The business is constantly attracting outside investment. So in 2013, the company attracted investments of more than 13 million dollars from private investors.
Tips for Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs: Stop thinking about what you can't do, do it and everything will work out.
Entrepreneur I admire: Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Henry Ford.
My achievements to date: My business is what I am most proud of today. I am proud that with the help of my product hundreds of thousands of people solve their problems and thank me. This is cool!
I'm also proud that I don't want to dwell on achieved result. I want to grow my business and help more people in the future.
Lisa Falzone: “Before starting my own business, I carefully studied the success stories of women in business and tried to understand their secret. I tried to figure out how their success is ensured. There are no secrets. All the women who have been successful have been driven, consistent, and persistent in their pursuit of making their business the best it can be. If you make your business the best for years, sooner or later it will become one. Great recipe."
Business Camp Bow Wow today it is estimated at 65 million dollars. Briefly: the business is established and operates as a network of catteries for abandoned and in need of care for pets. Top Tip for Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs: Think big. Dream more and try to make your dreams come true. Go to the realization of your dream step by step, albeit slowly, but always confidently forward. Don't be afraid to give up your existing comfortable life for your business. Take risks, don't be afraid. Another important advice My message to women entrepreneurs is to stay focused on your business whenever possible. What do I want to say? Before starting your own business, you must understand the following: you will have to focus on your business for several years and work daily. Are you ready for such sacrifices? If not, don't start. Remember, all these years the business will rule your life. Entrepreneur I admire: Sarah Blakely of Spanx. My achievements to date: Over the past few years, the attitude of people towards animals that need help has changed significantly in better side. This suggests that people are becoming more merciful. I think that in this process there is also my small merit. I'm really proud of this. My business has helped over 10,000 animals in 5 years. When I started the business, I did not think about such figures. I just wanted to help two cats that happened to be in my field of vision and needed help. When help was given to these cats, I thought that there are many more animals that also need help. Thus, the idea to create a business was born. Today, my kennels for the care and maintenance of animals exist in all states and provide comprehensive services. We can cure an animal, give the animal away during the absence of the owner, we also accept those animals that someone different reasons can no longer contain, etc. We try to help animals with cancer by collaborating with major American clinics and universities. Our charitable societies are constantly holding campaigns to raise funds for the worthy maintenance of animals that, by the will of fate, ended up in our nurseries. Heidi Ganal: "Style business woman, whose photo we often see in glossy magazines, does not correspond to the style that is inherent in real women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs prefer a free style, both in life and in a business setting. Believe me, much of what you see on the screen, the Internet or a magazine is far-fetched, artificial.”
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Heidi Ganal. Network of nurseries for pets
Briefly about the heroine of the interview and her business: Heidi Ganal is the founder and CEO of Camp Bow Wow. It is one of the most successful and fastest growing brands in the pet services industry.
Before you start talking about women's business success, you need to understand that women can achieve their triumph in different ways. After all, there are quite a lot of women entrepreneurs in the world who are the owners of companies, enterprises, brands. However, is it possible to compare the success of women who have their own business thanks to rich husbands or parents, and the success of women who have achieved everything on their own? Of course not.
Therefore, today we will consider the success stories of those women who started their business from scratch, who became who they are only thanks to their aspirations, the desire to constantly improve and never stop there.
Since ancient history, 2 types of women have been distinguished - domestic and active. If the former agree to sit at home and wait for her husband to come home from work, but for the latter, vigorous activity and self-realization in any area are simply necessary. The success stories of each business woman are different, but there is something that unites all these women. Perseverance and diligence are the qualities that are inherent in every woman who has achieved heights in her business.
No matter how a woman starts her business – either alone initially, or in partnership with others – she is always forced to prove to others her right to make decisions independently and have her own opinion.
Millions of women in different years, in different countries tried at one time to start their own business. However, only a few have achieved real success. These are those whom the whole world knows now, who are looked up to and set as an example as strong and stubborn women.
The success of a woman in business is determined, first of all, by devotion to her work and real interest in it. Women in business have a mission. If for a man business is often just a way to make money, then for a woman it is the work of her whole life.
Success stories of women in business
There is a gender gap in the tech industry, but fortunately there are still women who manage to break through this glass ceiling. Some of them run world famous companies, others are rising stars from fresh ideas capable of changing the business industry.
Approximately 5% of the top 500 list American companies, according to Fortune magazine, are run by women. And although the number may seem small, it proves one simple truth: the days of pure patriarchy have passed just as women have entered a new era where they themselves have become leaders of companies.
This article is dedicated to women who became legislators modern technologies and those who follow in their footsteps.
Sheryl Sandberg
Source: Vogue
Author of Lean In and Chief Operating Officer at Sheryl Sandberg- one of the richest women in Silicon Valley. Harvard graduate Sandberg was the first woman to serve on the Facebook board of directors. Much of the success of the social network is due to its deep understanding of the organization of the company. It was Sandberg who helped Facebook enter the IPO and significantly expand the company's income on the Internet.
Susan Wojcicki
Source: Glamour.com
Susan Wojcicki , CEO, joined the company in 1999. Not only was she the first landlord of the Google office (which was set up in her garage). Thanks to the brilliant mind of Wojcicki, YouTube's market value has reached incredible proportions, reaching $20 billion and increasing revenue from $1.65 billion to $4 billion in a relatively short time.
Marissa Mayer
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In 2012 Marissa Mayer was promoted to president, CEO, and director. Before Yahoo, she worked as Vice President of Location Services at Google: she was responsible for the operation of Google Maps, Google Earth, and was the initiator of many projects. And although Mayer is now expecting a child and plans to take maternity leave, she claims that she will break away from the activities of Yahoo for a very short time (no more than two weeks).
Ruth Porat
Source: Crunchbase
Originally a Wall Street bigwig, Ruth Porat recently left her long career as Vice President of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley to work at modern company Google. She has served as an advisor to the US Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Porat is the CFO of Google and Alphabet, Google's new umbrella company.
Weili Dai
Source: weinitiative.com
Dai is the president and co-founder of Marvell Technology Group. This billion-dollar company employs more than 7,000 people and is used by Google, Samsung and other big brands. The idea for the company came from Weili and her husband Sehat Sudarji right in the middle of the kitchen. Today they are the leading suppliers of computer chips. Weili Dai is now mentoring two rising stars: Lark co-founder and CEO Julia Hu and Depict CEO Kimberley Gordon.
Julia Hu
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Julia Hu- Founder and Director of Lark Technologies. She made it to the top 10 best women in technology, according to Forbes magazine, and in the ranking of 30 women under the age of 30, according to Inc. She received her Stanford education and has a love for hip-hop dancing. In addition, she became the first girl to be proposed right during an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. She is now mentored by Weili Dai of Marvel Technology.
Kimberly Gordon
Source: Depict
Founder and CEO of startup Depict Kimberly Gordon came up with a business model that opens up the art world to more people and also adds value to artists. Depict is a digital art marketplace that allows people to search, collect and add art to the database. Depict is a model designed to connect art lovers with curators. Before joining Depict, Kimberly worked for Shanghai's first carbon trading company. She attributes much of her success to the mentors who have supported her over the years.
Penelope Trunk
Source: openforum.com
After leaving the position of webmaster at Ingram Micro (one of the 100 the best companies, according to Fortune magazine, and remains the world's largest wholesale distributor of high-tech products), Penelope Trunk immediately started founding companies such as Math.com, eCitydeals, Brazen Careerist and now Quistic. She wrote for 200 newspapers and is famous for her paradoxical but effective recommendations in the style of "don't go to graduate school" or "choose sex over money." She writes a very funny and touching blog and sometimes forces readers to face the harsh reality of being a female entrepreneur.
Lisa Conquergood
Source: careercontessa.com
Having received an MBA degree, Lisa Conquergood assumed the position of head of the department ecommerce Eddie Bauer. After that, she worked briefly with Expedia and later at PickNik as a marketing director. After the acquisition of PickNik by Google, Lisa remained on the team, but Google closed PickNik soon after. So the whole team packed up and went to work at PicMoney, an updated and accelerated version of PickNick. To date, PicMoney attracts over 20 million visitors a month - a whopping number for such a young company.
Meg Whitman
Source: CrunchBase
Graduate of the Harvard MBA program Meg Whitman joined the ranks of Proctor & Gamble as a brand manager. Two years later, she left San Francisco with her husband, where she began working at Bain & Company. Despite the fact that she took high positions at Disney and Hasbro, the turning point in her life came when she took over the fledgling eBay, which was worth $86 million in its first year and grew to $7.7 billion in market value over the next 10 years. A decade later, Whitman became executive director. Forbes magazine ranked Whitman as the 14th most powerful woman in the world.
Lucy Pang
Source: Forbes.com
Lucy Pang occupies the most influential positions in. She runs financial services, leads a segment of the company that has more than 615 million users in total, and is also a founding member of Alibaba. Ant Financial, a subsidiary of Alibaba, is valued at $35-40 billion. Alipay, the Eastern equivalent of Paypal, has become the driving force behind Alibaba's e-commerce. Lucy Pang and Alibaba CFO Maggie Wu have been described by Fortune magazine as "the indefatigable couple."
Amy Hood
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With her background in investment banking and capital markets, Hood joined Microsoft in 2002. As Microsoft's first woman CFO, she generated $86.6 billion for the company. She now oversees Microsoft, which Microsoft acquired for $2.5 billion. In addition, Hood was the driving force behind the Yammer and Skype acquisitions.
Jeannie Rometty
Source: CrunchBase
With a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Systems Engineering from Northwestern University, Jeannie Rometty got a job as a development engineer at . Then she was promoted: she became the head of the IBM sales and marketing department. Upon taking over as chief executive in 2012, Rometty introduced a number of key changes and undertook one of the largest reorganizations at the company since its inception in 1911. IN Forbes ranking Rometty is ranked the 13th most powerful woman in the world, as well as the 55th most powerful person in the world.
Safra Katz
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For 16 years, Safra Katz has worked alongside founder and CEO Larry Elysson, becoming co-CEO in 2014. Prior to becoming CEO, she served as President and CFO of Oracle. More than 85 acquisitions in the last 5 years are the result of Katz's efforts. Forbes magazine ranked her as the 24th most powerful woman in the world, according to 2015, with a company net worth of $525 million.
Angela Ahrendts
Source: CrunchBase
Angela Ahrendts became the first woman in Tim Cook's top management team. In her long track record appear famous companies like Burberry, Donna Karan International, Liz Clairborne and Henri Bendel. Prior to Apple, Ahrendts was Burberry's chief executive and tripled the company's revenue to $3 billion. She became one of the highest paid female CEOs in the US, earning a staggering $82.6 million in 2014.
Ursula Burns
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Unbeknownst to the world, Ursula Burns began with a summer internship in 1980, and later became the most influential woman in the company. In just a few years since taking over as CEO in 2009, Burns has transformed Xerox from a global records management company into a powerful enterprise with a diverse range of services and clients. Despite the number of cases in her current position, Ursula simultaneously combines the work of a member of the board of directors at the Ford Foundation, American Express and Exxon Mobil Corporation, as well as the duties of a top manager in various non-profit organizations.
Mary Meeker
Source: adweek.com
From 1991 to 2010, Mary Meeker was a managing director and analyst at Morgan Stanley. Her previous projects included collaborations with Alibaba, Inuit, Apple, and Priceline. Meeker joined KCPB in 2010 and now runs Digital Growth Funds. Meeker has long been called the "Queen of Silicon Valley". She has authored a huge number of books and reports on Internet trends.
Solina Chau
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She is not only the wife of the richest man in Asia. Solina Chau is responsible for Horizons Ventures investments in the tech industry, including artificial intelligence And virtual reality. She also focuses on infectious diseases And environment. With about $9 million at his disposal, Chau runs the Li Ka-Shing Foundation, a powerful charitable organization, in which her husband and co-founder Li Ka-shin invests. Chow is famous for its ability to increase wealth. In one interview, she says: “I like to give children gold coins as a birthday present. A toy is a debited amount, but coins are an investment.”
Motorola. It is thanks to her that Motorola received the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2004. She ran a series major projects which brought her many awards. Warrior recently dispelled rumors that she was leaving Cisco Systems due to an offer to become their chief executive.
Jenny Lee
Source: Forbes.com
Having partnered with the likes of Morgan Stanley, JAFCO Asia and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, Lee is a seasoned venture capitalist despite looking very young. She was named Top Investor of 2015 by Forbes magazine, the first woman ever to top the list. Li was the decisive catalyst in the emergence of the venture capital fund GGV in China. Primarily focusing on non-traditional technology companies, Li is responsible for a number of major investments in GGV, including 21 Vianet Group, Inc., a leading data center in China.
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