When her neighbor asked her to join a baby playgroup, she answered, “What’s a baby playgroup?” Lisa Druxman had been in the fitness industry for a decade teaching classes and offering personal training. She was managing a large health club when she had her first baby and took maternity leave.
Her time working in the environmental non-profit field led her to a venture. Brittany Chamberlin looked at the way toxins affect the environment, but when she started to understand how toxins affect humans, she got a wake-up call. “I realized that what we put on our bodies is just as
{While not a mom yet, Alison’s venture is so helpful to all moms, I had to write about it. It’s a great venture idea.} When the business model changed at the company in Brooklyn where she worked, Alison Greenspon found she had been downsized out of a job. She was
When all of her friends kept talking about how hard it was to juggle everything from emails, voicemails, magazines, iPad apps, to-do lists, vacation plans, birthday parties, kids’ classes, exercise and everything else, she figured there must be a business venture in the idea of simplifying the lives of busy
It’s 3:00pm and in addition to taking your oldest to an orthodontist appointment, dropping your middle at ballet and your youngest at the soccer field, your dog needs to go to the vet and you have to circle back and pick everyone up from their activities. You arrive home at
After a decade of volunteering “ad naseum” she decided she needed a job. Dawn DeCosta had been an account manager for US Bank and left when she had her first child. In 2010, Dawn applied to work at an Apple Store. “I felt like I had landed at the mother
Women talk all the time. Let’s say you’re standing in line at the grocery and start up a conversation that turns to your current business venture. Most likely, you don’t have your cards with you, the kids are running to the car and you want to exchange info with the
Sometimes inspiration for a venture can come from someone else’s work. That’s what happened when Shawn Hull was shopping with a friend and came across some custom made dinnerware that had simple drawings on it. “I loved the idea of hand drawings transferred onto porcelain.” Shawn had always been artistic,
When she was in grade school, her Dad’s secretary was the coolest person around. “She could type really fast and had the best supplies – paperclips, staplers, pencils and folders.” With this memory it is only natural that Laurie Noel Meek’s venture years later is in office supplies. One of
What happens when two women who spent their entire careers focused on micro finance and assisting start-ups, decide to start a venture that will help women fund new businesses. Brenda Bazan and Nancy Hayes first met at IBM in the 1980s. They each went on to different career paths but
How do you turn a simple task into a venture. That’s what Amy Currie asked herself about preparing meals for her family. In her early career she started out selling advertising for magazines with the hopes of being a publisher one day. But when her twins came along, “Racing home
Sometimes helping your family can lead to a venture. When Karri’s sister lamented that she had just finished her playroom but her kids never used it, Karri came to the rescue. She had been a teacher for 20 years and was trained in how to engage kids in real play.