What Makes Women Entrepreneurs Fail or Stand Out
As the year is coming to an end, more and more organizations are announcing their choice of Outstanding Business Women of 2019. Award ceremonies are hosted celebrating female executives, tech leaders, startup breakthroughs and bringing thousands of women from across the world to network and make meaningful connections.
At the same time, there is still a large group of business women who are not yet represented on the list of finalists but deserve it just as much — women entrepreneurs building their very first business. The ones that are only on the way to their first 100K and flashy headlines. Just like the business women in award ceremonies, every day they too have to fight their battles: win over their customers, overcome many society’s misperceptions of independent women in business, conquer their own fears and the isolation that often comes with the choice to be a sole entrepreneur.
I had the honor of hosting an event for these remarkable women where they shared their journeys and lessons they have learnt along the way. What was inspiring is how they managed to turn around the challenges they experience into their winning qualities.
Here are traits that make women entrepreneurs stand out but if not treated with care they can become self-created traps.
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