Catherine Jaffee’s Balyolu powers tourism and women empowerment with honey in Turkey

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Catherine Medici Jaffee Balyolu (The Honey Road), pronounced “ball-yole-ew”, ( a play on “Ipek Yolu” which means “the Silk Road” in Turkish ) could be even termed a metaphor for the adventure that took Catherine Jaffee from Colorado to the steppes of northeastern Turkey and launch a social venture called Balyolu, that built an industry around hyper-local tourism and helped empower local women to thrive in a whole new niche market – honey tasting. In short, Balyolu is the first honey tasting rural business incubation walking adventure of its kind, led and inspired by village women in Turkey and Asia Minor. …Tell Me More »

3 Women Innovators in the Innovator Spotlight at the  3rd Privacy Identity Innovation Conference

3 Women Innovators in the Innovator Spotlight at the 3rd Privacy Identity Innovation Conference

Privacy Identity Innovation, the only tech conference focused on exploring how to protect sensitive information while enabling new technologies and business models now underway at Seattle has 3 Women- founded startups – Joanne Lang founded AboutOne, Emily Marshall and Kiran Gollu co-founded CoupleFire and Alisha Outridge founded tapTank that would be featured today in the Innovator Spotlight series. …Tell Me More »

Mother’s Day wishes from wowElle.

Mother’s Day wishes from wowElle.

Mother's'Day Wishes

wowElle wishes all the enterprising souls who continuously, unconditionally strive to nourish, nurture, encourage minds to go forth and strike out their own on this planet. …Tell Me More »

Mobile phones can help women entrepreneurs develop their businesses according to new research

Mobile phones can help women entrepreneurs develop their businesses according to new research

The ExxonMobil Foundation and Cherie Blair Foundation for Women today released new research demonstrating how mobile phones can help women entrepreneurs develop and grow their businesses. …Tell Me More »

Femmessor-Montreal launches the Successful and Balanced contest to find inspiring women entrepreneurs

Femmessor-Montreal launches the Successful and Balanced contest to find inspiring women entrepreneurs

Femmessor-Montreal has launched the Femmessor-Montreal, Successful and Balanced” contest, a new  recognition award aims at revealing women entrepreneurs from Montréal as true models and demonstrating that entrepreneurial success is compatible with other aspects of personal life balance. …Tell Me More »

Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan’s Drawbridge develops the first self-learning ad technology to bridge desktop and mobile advertising

Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan’s Drawbridge develops the first self-learning ad technology to bridge desktop and mobile advertising

Drawbridge, a startup founded by former Google and AdMob scientist Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan has officially come out of stealth and announced $6.5 million in Series A funding from Silicon Valleys premier venture capitalists, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. Drawbridge aims to solve the two biggest hurdles in mobile advertising today: targeting and tracking. The company is developing a first of its kind self-learning cross-device advertising solution that brings desktop-like targeting to mobile advertising.

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Female entrepreneurs face a ‘green ceiling’ when it comes to financing, according to a new study

Female entrepreneurs face a ‘green ceiling’ when it comes to financing, according to a new study

When it comes to a company’s critical stock market debut, investors are less likely to trust their money to an enterprise led by a female CEO, a University of Utah researcher says. “Bias against top-level female executives seems entrenched despite strides women have made in filling management positions within firms making their initial public offerings (IPOs),” says Lyda Bigelow, assistant professor at the university’s David Eccles School of Business. …Tell Me More »

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