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Adrienne Sanders has been writing about entrepreneurs, business leaders and influential women for 15 years. She worked as a staff reporter at Forbes Magazine where she chronicled the world’s richest people. She has also written for TheStreet.com, The San Francisco Business Times and contributed to The New York Observer and San Francisco Chronicle. Adrienne received a BA from Colgate University and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University.

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Established Entrepreneur Shares Her Tips for Making It Big

by Adrienne Sanders April 12, 2013

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It wasn’t nostalgia that compelled Anu Duggal to move to her family’s homeland of India. It was the market opportunity. Capitalizing on India’s fast-growing consumer economy, the American-born entrepreneur co-founded several companies there. In 2005 she started India’s first luxury wine bar, The Tasting Room, with Rajeev Samant, CEO of Sula Wines. In 2010, she [...]

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Getting Real with a Real Housewife: Cindy Barshop talks about Business, Family, and being an Entrepreneur

by Adrienne Sanders December 7, 2012

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You might recognize Cindy Barshop from her appearance on Bravo TV’s Real Housewives of New York, but in elite business circles, she’s celebrated as a groundbreaking (and hair removing!) businesswoman. Recently honored at the Goldman Sachs Builders & Innovators Summit as one of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of Our Time,” Cindy owns four Completely [...]

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Starting an Internet Company? AHAlife Founder Shares Her Tips

by Adrienne Sanders August 24, 2012

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Shauna Mei personifies bold contrast and good taste. Born in China and raised in the U.S., Shauna combined her rigorous academic background–an MIT computer science and electrical engineering degree–with an abiding wanderlust and work experience in luxury marketing to create AHAlife in 2010. The website and daily email service carry unique products from around the [...]

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Fashion Forward: GGF Interviews Founder of Gilt.com

by Adrienne Sanders August 3, 2012

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Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is the force behind a daily ritual shared by millions of American women–logging on to Gilt.com to check for a lightning fast luxury fashion sale.  Alexandra and Alexis Maybank, her Harvard Business School buddy, along with three others founded Gilt.com in November 2007 as a flash sale website for high-end women’s clothing. [...]

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How to Make a Difference: CEO of D-Rev talks to GGF

by Adrienne Sanders July 27, 2012

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Krista Donaldson is CEO of D-Rev, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit that brings medical devices and income to people living on less than $4 a day. D-Rev–which stands for Design Revolution—designs and, with partners, manufactures, and markets the devices at a fraction of the cost of traditional ones, aiming to make these products universally more accessible. GoGirl [...]

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Becoming A Female Entrepreneur: GGF Interviews Upstart Ventures Founder

by Adrienne Sanders July 13, 2012

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Liz Hamburg is a pioneering serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Liz is the founder and President of Upstart Ventures, where she has incubated many start-ups including her latest venture, ApplyWise, an online college admissions counseling company. With her mother, Joan Hamburg, Liz co-hosts the WOR radio show Launchpad, a weekly segment focusing on entrepreneurs and small [...]

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How To Make Job Sharing Work For You

by Adrienne Sanders June 4, 2012

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Your career was your life, but now you’re pregnant and wondering how you’re going to kick butt at your job and new motherhood. Here’s how two women teamed up to get ahead. Deborah Baron rocketed through her 20s as a sales star known for winning clients and closing deals in magazine publishing. Only pregnancy with her [...]

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Career Lessons Learned From Google’s Director of Advertiser Sales Ruth Kirschner

by Adrienne Sanders May 18, 2012

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Ruth Kirschner is flourishing on the front lines of two radically changing fields — technology and media.  Ruth talks to GGF about strategies for workplace success, revealing how to adapt those strategies to the size of your company. She shares the wisdom she’s gained as a woman on a all male management team. You manage [...]

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How To Be Happy At Work: Joanne Gordon Talks With GGF

by Adrienne Sanders April 20, 2012

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As a best-selling author, columnist, and former writer for Forbes magazine, Joanne Gordon has spent much of her career exploring what makes people happy at work. Most recently, she co-wrote Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, which has been translated into 13 languages and reached [...]

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Elevating Women Entrepreneurs: Kelly Hoey Talks With GGF

by Adrienne Sanders April 6, 2012

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Kelly Hoey might be best described as a power connector. Her ability to put the right people together at the right time has fueled her career, which began in corporate law and has led to her position as Managing Director of Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), which she co-founded in December 2011. New York-based WIM is [...]

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