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To round off the year, we bring you our top 7 favourite reads for women entrepreneurs - all authored, or co-authored by women. We hope they inspired you as much as they did us.
Let’s face it, there is nothing quite like getting inspiration and advice from other great women entrepreneurs who have been there and done it, bought the T-Shirt, survived business failure and other challenges, made it through the good times and bad times - and ultimately achieved success.
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Pamela Ryckman, author of 'Stiletto Network'
The face of global business is changing, although still rather too slowly, and today more women are running and starting up major companies than ever before. These women are at the forefront of a movement that recognizes the power of networking and collaboration to make opportunities and change happen. Stiletto Network shines the spotlight on the power of savvy, ambitious, intelligent women in business, industry and politics to mine their collective intelligence in order to realize their dreams or champion a cause.
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According to research compiled by FinanceOnline, which was taken from PEW, Nielsen, and Burst Media, women use social media more often and in more ways then men do. Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter all have more women on the platform than men.
Check out this infographic illustrating how women rule social media.
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Innovating Women explores the world of women in the technology industry, and other fields of innovation, but told from the unique perspective and first-hand experience of women in the front-line. This extraordinary collection of personal, highly candid interviews and essays from hundreds of technology executives and entrepreneurs, gives an insight into the challenges faced by women in this sector, and how they have achieved success despite the odds.
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Diana Kander, author of 'All in Startup'
All In Start-Up is a lifeline for entrepreneurs who are thinking about launching a new idea, or for those who have already started, but can't seem to generate the traction they were expecting.
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100+ Successful Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Tips on What Works, What Doesn’t (and Why) When You’re Launching a Business and Designing a Life You Love.
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In '168 Hours', Laura Vanderkam gives us a unique and refreshing perspective on how to live life to the full and do the things we really want and need to do. She offers a different approach to managing our lives and activities one week (168 hours) at a time, rather than trying to cram too much into a 24-hour day, often with stressful and disappointing consequences.
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Sheryl Sandberg, American technology executive, activist, and author
In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg the chief operating officer of Facebook examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
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In Thrive, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and one of the most influential women in the world, has written a passionate call to arms, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world. She challenges women to forget about the glass ceiling – "let's change the system altogether by redefining the very meaning of success."
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IDoneThis – makes our Essential App List for staying on track with your work or projects. It's really simple to use giving you a daily prompt to celebrate or share what you've actually managed to get done that day. A positive alternative to all those 'To-Do-List' apps that somehow manage to fatigue and demotivate us all. We use it at LoA and have grown to love it!
Read moreEssential Video
Watch this video where Richard Branson tells the inspiring story of how he started Virgin as a 15 year old with just $200 given to him by his mother.
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Julie Meyer MBE, Chairman and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder Entrepreneur Country
In Welcome to Entrepreneur Country, Julie Meyer takes an up-close and highly personal look at the unique DNA of an entrepreneur – the passion, the insight, the commitment, and the willingness to back an idea or a business concept to the hilt, working around the clock to make it a reality.
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