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Jayna Cooke is CEO and founder of Chicago-based EVENTup, the largest online marketplace for event venues. (EVENTup was recently acquired by Gather.) Cooke was also former VP of business development…

No matter where you are on your career journey, the thought of outsourcing can be scary. When your entire business and income depend solely on you, trusting someone else to…

In the male-driven tech world, female entrepreneurs already face many more hurdles than their male counterparts. Finding out you’re pregnant on top of that might seem like the end of…

The Small Business Administration estimates that a third of all businesses fail in the first year; half by year five. One of the main reasons for these failures is a…

In the world of entrepreneurship, if you asked one hundred different people why they wanted to open a business, you’d most likely get one hundred different answers. I have my…

Everyone talks about social media these days — everyone wants to ‘go viral.’ We think a viral video will solve all our problems, bring in an audience, bring in sales,…

A lot of businesses worry about expanding into overseas markets, and rightly so; for every new country, there’s a new list of concerns. Every country you expand into almost feels…

Women empowerment is key to the success of the real world. The United Nations Populations Fund tells us that women empowerment is essential for the success of both men, women,…