www.EnterprisingWomen.com
Enterprising Women Magazine — the magazine for women owned
businesses. Look for Julie's "Serious Mom, Serious Business"
column starting in November 2006.
www.WorkingMother.com
Check out Julie's entrepreneurial "Ask the Expert" column!
www.umbc.edu/activate
ACTiVATE is a program that provides a systematic model for increasing
the commercialization of technology innovations from research
institutions in the State of Maryland by training women entrepreneurs
to start-up technology-based companies.
www.FreePatentsOnline.com
Search for and get information about patents to find out if your idea is truly unique!
www.entrepreneur.com
Entrepreneur Magazine — learn from others that
have gone before you!
www.fsb.com
Fortune Small Business Magazine — provides insight on starting
and running a small business.
Growing Your Business
Online radio show covering all aspects of operating and marketing a small business. Join Fred and Lyna as they interview a new person every Monday or check out their archives.
sba.gov
The Small Business Administration maintains and strengthens
the nation's economy by aiding, counseling, assisting and protecting
the interests of small businesses. Their site contains information
about starting, growing, or running a small business.
www.sbsc.org
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council: Advocacy organization
for small and growing businesses. Publishes the Small Business
Survival Index, which ranks states according to their policies
that help (or hurt!) small business.
www.MakeMineAMillion.org
and www.CountMeIn.org
The Make Mine a $Million program is a program of Count Me In
and provides a combination of money, mentoring and marketing
tools that women entrepreneurs need to help grow their businesses
to a million dollars and beyond.
www.authenticliving.com
Make the most out of every day. Authentic Living encourages
you to create an authentic life - one you can live to the fullest.
Our online journal emphasizes personal empowerment, rewarding
work, a satisfying home life, fulfilling relationships, a healthy
environment, and suggestions on how to attain all this through
balanced living.
www.vistage.com
Vistage, formerly known as TEC, is a CEO roundtable organization
for companies with $3M in revenues and up.
www.WomenPresidentsOrg.com
A business mentoring organization for women presidents of companies over $1M in revenues (for services) and $2M in products.
www.nafe.com
National Association of Female Executives
www.nawbo.com
National Association of Women Business Owners
www.w2wventures.com
W2W Ventures provides career continuity for individuals and
helps build talented businesses. They do this by keeping high-performing
individuals professionally engaged and sharp during an absence
from full-time work through best-in-class programs and practical
professional opportunities and solutions.
