This post is by Goldman Sachs as part of their sponsorship of The Huffington Post’s What Is Working: Small Businesses

Enabling the success of entrepreneurs is more important today than ever before.… Read the rest

By: Ritika Shah

Owning a business can be hard enough, but women entrepreneurs can face additional hurdles, especially if they try to go it alone.

Liz Wessel says her startup has solved the conundrum of how students and recent college graduates can find jobs.… Read the rest

Sophia Amoruso, the author of #Girlboss and founder of the e-commerce retailer Nasty Gal, interviewed the Hollywood actress and entrepreneur as part of a new, weekly podcast for women.… Read the rest

C-level Briefing: Alex Tempest, Director of Partners at TalkTalk Business, talks women in tech and how “it is a privilege to be a woman in this industry at the moment.”

Following Cisco CTO Alison Vincent, techUK President Jacqueline de Rojas and Egnyte CSO Isabelle Guis, Alex Tempest is next to tackle the women in tech issue with Editor Ellie Burns.… Read the rest

Recent headlines have celebrated the success of women chief executives at Facebook, IBM, General Motors and other corporate giants.… Read the rest

In every economic downturn, corporations shed employees to shave costs. And in every economic downturn, many of those let-go employees make lemons out of lemonade by starting that small business they’ve always dreamed of operating, whether it involves doing what they were doing as an employee or trying something entirely different.… Read the rest

Hint: It has to do with foreheads.

If you need to fake confidence when speaking with someone important, look at their forehead instead of into their eyes, former supermodel Tyra Banks suggests.… Read the rest

By: Kerry Hannon, CONTRIBUTOR

More and more women I know are starting their own businesses these days — often doing so by switching careers in midlife.… Read the rest