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Dear Spinster,
How do you define entrepreneurship? Does it include the local business owners, the freelancers finally forming their own brand, the self-proclaimed founders, or the newly certified coaching experts?
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The Other Founder
Camera-shy Lindsy soon realized that a major part of her job meant putting herself in front of thousands of online viewers every day - a thought that terrified her to nausea and gave her major FOPO (fear of other people’s opinions). Here’s how she conquered all of it to become a digital sales queen.
Okay, Boomer. Millennials are entitled. Gen X is lazy. Today’s hottest conversational topic is about deciding which generation is, the worst. But is this banter actually doing anybody any good? Especially when it comes to building strong business relationships? Brand strategist Cindy Kynard walks us through how to build real intergenerational community in a time of a decade divide.
Melissa Ng is the Principal of Account Management for Slalom, a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. Having facilitated Slalom’s Women’s Leadership Professional Network’s latest event, Shameless Self-Promotion: Strategies for Authentic Self-Advocacy in the Workplace, Melissa shares some of her major learnings for Spinster’s entrepreneurs and internal company changemakers.
These lively, unpretentious gatherings set around rooftops, bars, and other off-the-beaten dance path are social, up close, and personal, allowing audiences to get to know both the dancers and other like-minded attendees at the event.
Empathy could be the secret sauce for founders aiming to build successful startups, cultures, and products. Scientist, storyteller and serial entrepreneur Dr. Claudine Woo discusses how empathy correlates with an individual’s workplace success, a startup’s ability to ‘actually’ innovate, and customer satisfaction.
Founder of #ExperienceBrandThinking, Payal Vaidya creates immersive workshop where entrepreneurs learn to design and brand thinking skills with a focus on embracing a human-centered approach. Here, Spinster interviews Payal on her why human-centered design is the way to go for brands looking for success.
Get a sneak preview of how nutritional expert Kat James, founder of Kundalini Disco DJ Kyma-AmyK, and more amazing creative entrepreneurs have navigated fear throughout the course of their careers.
CEOs read up to 60 books a year. We’ve curated a selection of books BY AND FOR female founders – for gutsy, self-motivated gals like yourself.
Saba Ethiopian Cuisine has stood on the same block in Seattle for more than 18 years. During this time, the owner, Workie Wubushet has put her heart and soul into her business. Sadly though, as of the summer of 2018, Saba has been shut down due to a group of developers that want the space to build a housing complex in its place.
Experience Brand Thinking Workshop is a series of immersive experience workshop held around New York City focusing on empowering early-stage entrepreneurs to develop a human-centered approach in developing their brands.
At Spinster, we’ve devised an intuitive consulting service just for female founders ready to take their publicity to the next level. Below, we’ve highlighted some of our top tips for gaining publicity on your brand in the press.
The Spinster team keeps growing! Spinster is proud to announce that we have two new members joining our consulting team - marketing director Eve Stern and financial lead Jennie Tian.
Look, I understand that everybody wants to be their own boss or have a flexible job. But an MLM? More often than not it’s too good to be true.
As of 2019, Black women are among the least likely to receive funding from venture capitalists. 0006% of venture capital went towards black females entrepreneurs between 2009 and 2017. This thought piece is an exploration into this phenomenon.
Saba’s Ethiopian Restaraunt has been in business for nearly 20 years. During those two decades, Workie, developed an ecosystem with the community around her. The people of Seattle came to her doorstep for one-of-a-kind Ethiopian cuisine, and she, in turn, supported the Seattle community by donating to various local nonprofits, donating food to the city that she calls home.
Through DAME, a female reproductive health company based in London, Celia and her co-founder have innovated the tampon applicator by creating an organic, reusable product. Not only is their applicator, D, safe for women, it addresses the surplus waste of plastic that comes with traditional period products.
“We are making our customers into stakeholders. If we make them stakeholders they help us create better products, but they also become our sales channel.”
“The quest was going without knowing where it was going to lead me,” Nupur Goenka, founder of Aish recalls. “The thing was trying to find something to give me joy.”
Who is the modern man? Send this Spinster survey to the men in our life to help us create an awesome new program aimed at forward-thinking male entrepreneurs and creatives.
On International Women’s Day, the art world saw the launch of an ‘artrepreneurial’ movement that aims to break free of those past prejudices and place women at the forefront of creativity and art.
WESTxEAST blends the usual with the unique, letting its customers put their own spin on fashion - a spin that melds the new and the old, the traditional and the modern, and of course, the West and the East.
We’re four weeks out from the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. While many reporters and polls are (cough: rightly) framing the November 6 contests as a referendum on Donald Trump and the Republican party, or a potential sequel to 1992’s Year of the Woman, there are some lesser-talked about storylines that are of particular importance to female entrepreneurs.
For Ariane Gold, a pivotal setback unintentionally kicked off a summer – and an idea - that would change her life forever and inspire her to launch a customizable handbag that’s flipping high-end fashion on its head.
The founders of Spinster realized the cards were stacked against women in both the corporate America and the start up world. Which is why they decided to build a company where women could create their own economy, with their own rules.
Women are dominating the startup field. If women entrepreneurs were their own country, we would have the fifth highest GDP in the world! These female founders explain why they left their day jobs and went into entrepreneurship full time.
What would sustainable fashion look like if it walked the walk it preaches? Melanin ASS is answering that question. Melanin ASS an online magazine focusing on highlighting sustainable fashion and the people of color within the industry who often go overlooked for their many important contributions.
“People are inherently nervous for you when you take a risk. Especially people who love you,” says Molly Boreman, founder of Just Nips, the fake nipple company that is making a statement for breast cancer survivors.
“We’re two Asian females and would have to show up on site and assemble it,” Chang said. “I think most people are always surprised that we are the team behind the structure. They are always surprised, [saying], ‘Oh, you guys can build this.’”
These fashion-tech companies can help you maintain or boost your professional image on a dime - perfect for the up-and-coming women entrepreneur!
Catch a list of the most revolutionary, female-founded sex tech companies that are shaking the system up. Some of these organizations are educational, some of them are pleasure-based, but all of them are putting the experiences of women and non-binary people at the center of the sexual equation.
Fall is here and that means some of our favorite conferences for women entrepreneurs are fast approaching. We've got your list of our top female founder conferences to hit this autumn from New York to London and everywhere in between.
The current U.S. student loan debt ranks somewhere around 1.5 trillion dollars. According to a report by The Association of College Women, females own about two-thirds of that student loan debt.
We picked Pipeline Angel’s founder Natalia Oberti Noguera’s brain on how we can ensure we are building a space that is more inclusive for women and femmes across the LGBTQ spectrum. Check out these six exclusive tips!
