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[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Women entrepreneurs now own or co-own 40% of all businesses in the US and have created almost twice as many businesses as men between 2002 and 2007, say experts.
Currently, some 10.1 million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40% of all businesses in the US, says the Centre for Women's Business Research, a research group in McLean, Virginia.
They are division champions, yes. As proof, they have the souvenir caps for sale. But they were outplayed by the Minnesota Vikings Tuesday at the Linc, losing 24-14. And even if they have won six of their last eight, they are gradually, and not so subtly, being solved [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] .
For every right reason — in particular, the spoils-to-the-winners doctrine that has ruled sports forever — the Eagles enjoyed their victory a week and a half ago in the decade’s Meadowlands Miracle. Winners, they were, literally and conversationally. Yet in that game, they trailed, 31-10 — a buried fact that hardly was lost on Andy Reid.
“[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] For three-plus quarters there, it wasn’t very pretty and that part bothers me as a head football coach,” Reid warned, almost before the team bus had screeched back in the NewsControl Compound lot from Jersey. “So we will go back and learn from our mistakes and get the things that we need to do better. We will get those better.”
If opening a business demands courage, opening one in the aftermath of the worst economic downturn demands a special steeliness, especially for female entrepreneurs.
Because women-owned businesses are concentrated in retail and service industries - think Estee Lauder, Coco Chanel, Mrs. Fields Cookies, even Zipcar - they were among the first to feel the downturn, reports Christian Science Monitor.
Now [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] , in a fragile recovery, the business climate requires other qualities, like resourcefulness and patience.
What? Were Vick and the Eagles destined to score 30 points at will forever — or, in one case, 59?
If nothing [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] else Tuesday, the Vikings showed the one characteristic that too many other Eagles’ opponents have lacked: The self-dignity to refuse to be embarrassed, on national TV, in prime time, by some ridiculously lengthy DeSean Jackson touchdown play. So they mixed coverages on Vick and layered an additional safety atop Jackson. They did that, and when that didn’t work, they hit the Eagles’ wide receiver in the passing lanes.
With Jackson neutralized, Vick’s brilliance was dulled. The Vikings, sensing the Eagles’ frustration, then attacked Vick with a variety of blitzes, plenty coming from the corners. With 55 seconds left in the first half, Antoine Winfield jolted Vick in the backfield, forcing, recovering and returning a fumble 45 yards for a touchdown --- a touchdown and more. More, because it was not just seven points, but this point: The Eagles had been figured out.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Smother Jackson. Hit Vick. Cause doubt.
The Eagles tried to steal one this season, and rolled not only into the 16th weekend of the season but onto the following Tuesday, leaving behind a trail of dazed opponents.
Opponents aren’t dazed any more.
Two weeks ago, the Giants had the Eagles down by 21 in the fourth quarter. Tuesday, the Birds lost to a team that had seemed to be in something of retreat, and in the process wasted a chance to be the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs.
They may yet win a championship. But they won’t be sneaking to one.
Even with Michael Vick, the Eagles have been figured out.
"They're rediscovering the art of 'bootstrapping' and keeping your overhead low and keeping your operating costs low so you can adjust to these economic shocks and keep adjusting," says Jeffrey Cornwall, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
"[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] It doesn't mean they're not growing their business or not starting their business, it means they're finding another way to get there," he said.
Ruth Marvin Webster and her tennis partner, Kathy Doherty, spent years making puns at their racquet club: "Love all," "Get a grip," "Tightly strung," "Yours!" They'd even joked about turning their witticisms into a T-shirt business.
So after Webster was laid off in 2008 from her job as a features writer for a San Diego daily, the pair took the plunge and started Net Wit, a business so new that its website only went up in mid-November, the Monitor reports [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] .
"[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] The economy is the reason we started the company, absolutely," says Webster. Of course, the sour economy hasn't helped the bottom line. "It's harder to make a sale because it's frivolous," she says. "You can live without a tennis shirt. Maybe not as happily, but you can live."
Take Mary Frankie Forte [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], owner of the It's a Grind coffee shop in downtown Oakland, California. "Customers are definitely cutting back," she says. Some have downgraded from lattes to drip coffee, which costs half as much; others may get a muffin only twice a week instead of daily. "I'm just trying to make do with what I have.... Loans to pay back, I don't need [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] ."
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