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October 27, 2004
Stay-at-Home Moms as Entrepreneurs
StartupJournal looks at the growing trend of young mothers combining a stay-at-home lifestyle with entrepreneurial endeavors.
"For many women who leave the work force to care for children, motherhood is making invention a necessity. The daily routine of child-care presents such a minefield of little problems that they turn to tinkering, and then market their brainstorms."
I am seeing this path in more and more of the self-assessments that my students are writing about in my classes. Many are saying that entrepreneurship gives them the freedom to be at home while still pursuing their business aspirations. It will be interesting to see how well these mothers can balance parenting both a new business and young children at the same time.
Anita over at Small Business Trends had more to say about this last week when this article was at the Wall Street Journal's main site. Check out her post and the comments it produced.
Posted October 27, 2004 05:43 AM
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at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He consults with a variety of businesses on start-up and growth related issues, and with larger corporations on re-establishing entrepreneurial cultures within their organizations. Dr. Cornwall's current research interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics. He has authored or co-authored four books.
