By Stephanie Burns via FORBESWOMAN
10/22/2012

Being a woman has its advantages and its disadvantages, but when it comes to female entrepreneurship, I think women are moving into their own. The statistics are promising as there are 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the US currently, and in the next five years, over half of all small business jobs will be created from women-owned businesses. The world is turning to women to be the new thought leaders – and we are definitely up for the challenge. As female entrepreneurs, we have significant advantages simply because we’re built differently.

The first advantage I see is collaboration and collabatition – Collabation is a word I heard not too long ago – it’s collaboration with your competition in an effort to move both companies forward. Women love to work together. We naturally gravitate towards creating relationships and partnerships. We like to do things in groups, we like to involve people in what we’re doing.

From the beginning of Chic CEO, Jody and I have leveraged collaboration and partnerships to grow our business. We truly believe there is enough business out there for all of us and we don’t look at anyone as our competition. We like to say we are a nice complement to what other women’s groups are trying to achieve.  We’re all working towards providing women with what they need to be successful in their lives. So we’ve never turned down and opportunity to partner with any like-minded business or group. I think we’re going to see a lot more of this happening in the near future. As we start building our businesses, we’ll be working together for the collective good. Read full article>>