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Women Who Inspire: Entrepreneurs Who Are Resetting Amid COVID-19

By Lindsay Hoffman and Caroline Kim — 2020

While we have yet to see the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic, we have begun to witness its severe impact on our global economy. Businesswomen, specifically businesswomen of color, have been disproportionately affected. Consequently, they’ve been forced to adapt to the continuously changing tides. Here are six entrepreneurs’ inspirational stories of how they are doing just that.

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create.

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.

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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

In Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more.

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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth.

Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth.

Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, Kevin Bennett

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Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) – Octane – Targeting a New Culture

In this edition of Project Octane, Paul Chu, founder of RedWolf Airsoft, discusses the merits of adopting a “West meets East” approach to company culture, and how internal growth is just as important as external growth.

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Entrepreneurs on Succession and Culture

People drive business performance, say entrepreneurs. When you're starting your own business, succession planning may not be a priority, but it's vital to secure the longevity of the venture.

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Startup Culture: How Millennial Entrepreneurs are Shaking Up the Status Quo

Startup Culture: How Millennial Entrepreneurs are Shaking Up the Status Quo

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This Actress Turned Entrepreneur Left Broadway to Bring Vietnam's Coffee Culture to America | Forbes

In June, Forbes covered the explosion of entrepreneurs that started businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Among them was Jackie Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American stage actor who pivoted to running a coffee shop after her tour of Miss Saigon was cancelled due to the pandemic.

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The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

We are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferation of innovation-driven startup activity is profound, unprecedented, and global in scope. Today, it is understood that communities of support and knowledge-sharing go along with other resources.

Brad Feld, Ian Hathaway

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