May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h
English
book
Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses
by Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, Myra M. Hart
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258 INDEX
F
Federal Glass Ceiling Commission,
industry studies, 150
Financing capital, importance of, 2
Financing steps for women
creative bootstrapping, 134
partnership/small team pooling,
133
personal reserve building, 133
understand capital types, 135
understand industry require-
ments, 135–136
understand motivations/require-
ments of lenders, 136
Fiorina, Carly, 100
Fisher, Melanie (venture capital case
example), 221–223
Fleet Bank, targeting women entre-
preneurs, 51
Flight Time, Inc. management team
building case example,
200–201
Flower Power, 6
Foundation Capital, 221
Frookies, 24–25
Fuller, Marce, 100
G
Gardening.com, 24
Gazelle Systems, 106
“Gazelles,” 5
Gender
and aspirational focus, 74–74
bias and educational process, 120
and biases of resource ...
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