Along the stretch of Harrison Street that runs from Austin Boulevard on the east to Ridgeland Avenue on the west, a thriving collection of 20 or so stores and galleries is gearing up for another day. Though such a concentrated percentage of women entrepreneurs is still the exception, it nevertheless highlights the fact that businesses owned by women are growing in number and economic clout. That rate of growth was more than twice as fast as that of all U.S. businesses. For the same reasons that men do, they say. And women are among each other's greatest supporters, she says.
Women are more willing to volunteer and help out each other. . . .
There's sort of a fan base for women-owned enterprises. You want to support your own minority. You don't want to feel intimidated. When I changed my thinking from a single focus and looked at ways to reinvent the company by thinking big, at that point the company began to soar. And she wants to take it further.