“I
never find much to write about at conferences,” one woman told me as we waited for morning coffee just before the Women Entrepreneurs Festival (WE Festival) at NYU a few weeks ago. “There’s never anything interesting to say.” I nodded, demonstratively. A gathering of women focused on mobilizing an entrepreneurial “community,” seemed cliché. And while parts of the WE Festival veered in that direction, the messages that came out of the two-day event organized by Gotham Gal blogger Joanne Wilson was refreshingly original. I wanted to share them on International Women’s Day.
The gathering of around 200 mainly female entrepreneurs focused on mobilizing a “community of women entrepreneurs in New York City.” It highlighted speakers, all entrepreneurs, from four main disciplines: design, environmental, media and social entrepreneurship. Unsurprisingly they told their founding stories, participated on panels and engaged the audience in a question and answer exchange – everything I expected. Except, I didn’t expect some of their answers, particularly this one: There are no rules.
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Author: Elmira Bayrasli
