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| Preface | |
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| Women Becoming Entrepreneurs | |
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| No Glass Ceilings Here | |
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| An Entrepreneurial Venture Begins | |
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| Venture Growth Is a Choice | |
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| Women-Led Ventures | |
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| Slow to Grow | |
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| Are There Changes in the Offing? | |
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| Private Equity-The Last Big Hurdle | |
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| The Hurdle Analogy | |
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| The Plan for This Book | |
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| Notes | |
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| Women Entrepreneurs: Pathways and Challenges | |
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| The Entrepreneur | |
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| Strategic Choices | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hurdles to Overcome | |
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| Higher Hurdles for Women | |
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| Why Are the Hurdles Higher? | |
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| Winning the Race for Success | |
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| Notes | |
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| Funding Sources for Businesses on the "Grow" | |
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| Money and the Start-Up Process | |
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| Growth Capital versus Start-Up Funds | |
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| Bootstrap Financing | |
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| Sources of Equity Capital | |
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| Angel Investing | |
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| Government-Supported Investments | |
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| Venture Capital | |
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| Notes | |
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| Motives, Aspirations, and Commitment | |
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| The Entrepreneurial Choice | |
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| Motives for Entrepreneurship | |
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| Women's Aspirations Contrast with Entrepreneurial Reality | |
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| Family Role Expectations | |
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| Women's Self-Expression Leads to Perceptions | |
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| Truths and Realities | |
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| Moving Beyond the Expectations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Women and Human Capital | |
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| What Do Resource Providers Look For? | |
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| Assumptions about Women Entrepreneurs | |
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| Sorting Fact from Fiction | |
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| Overcoming the Hurdle | |
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| Enhancing Your Human Capital | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Financial Knowledge and Business Savvy | |
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| Challenges Built into the System | |
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| Do Women Underinvest in Their Businesses? | |
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| Do Women Have the Requisite Financial Knowledge, Skills, and Experience? | |
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| Separating the High Potential, High Performers from the Rest | |
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| The Springboard Survey: A Study of Women Entrepreneurs Leading High-Potential Enterprises | |
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| What Can Women Do to Clear the Financing Hurdles? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Growth Orientation and Strategies | |
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| Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller? | |
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| Why Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller? | |
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| Why Are Women-Led Ventures Perceived Differently? | |
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| The New Generation of Women Entrepreneurs | |
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| Strategies for Growth | |
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| Overcoming High Hurdles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Building Useful Networks and Cashing in on Social Capital | |
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| Are Women Unplugged from the Right Networks? | |
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| Formal Networks | |
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| Informal Networks | |
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| Benefits of Networks | |
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| Network Boundaries and Barriers | |
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| The Case for Homogeneous Networks | |
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| The Case for Heterogeneity | |
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| Social Capital-The Currency of Network Exchange | |
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| Reputation and Trust | |
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| Spending Social Capital within a Network | |
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| Some Networks Are Like Foreign Countries | |
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| Women Have Diverse Networks | |
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| Women Benefit from Strategic Sponsors | |
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| Creating Effective Networks | |
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| Notes | |
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| Women Building Management Teams | |
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| Perceptions about Women | |
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| Fact and Fiction about Women and Teams | |
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| Building a High-Potential Team | |
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| Challenges in Team Formation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Networking for Venture Capital | |
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| A Brief Histor | |