Fifty-three years ago, Booker T. Wilkins, a barber in Old Town Alexandria, was turned down twice for a loan at a community bank because he didn’t have collateral. He went back a final time. He told the banker: The loan wouldn’t be for as long as he was in business. “As long as I am living, […]
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Op-Ed: The Real Reason Women Entrepreneurs Struggle to Raise Funding
Something interesting happened at last October’s 2020 Women in Global Development Leadership Forum, dedicated to empowering women leaders on the global stage. Before a panel discussion on “The Many Ways to Invest in Women Entrepreneurs,” a Zoom chat poll asked participants, What is your biggest challenge? Overwhelmingly, the answer was ‘funding’—raising enough of it or […]
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Friday Roundup: What Biden’s doing for Business, New PPP Funds and a Free, Online Tech Course
Good afternoon, Times of E readers! This is your weekly news roundup. Every Friday, we’ll give you the rundown on the latest news in the entrepreneurship world so you can stay in touch with promotions, recent studies, pitching opportunities and more. If you have a piece of news, please send it to Skyler Rossi, srossi@timesofe.com. […]
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Women Business Leaders Emerge During The Pandemic
A few weeks ago, Penny Peavler and Valerie Horn were deep in a $50,000 grant application to fund food distribution to kids in Eastern Kentucky, when Horn realized what she had: a food distribution network. Since 2017, Horn had been building a nonprofit, Community Agricultural Nutrition Enterprises, to get farm produce to families that needed […]
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What Washington, D.C., Doesn’t Know About Entrepreneurs Could Hurt Us
Over the past weeks, the team of Times of Entrepreneurship has done amazing work covering the impact of the COVID19 shutdown. We had some of the earliest stories on the problems in the economic stimulus, broke the news of the tech lenders joining the PPP program and wrote about the vastly underreported story of community […]
