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In April 2011, Count Me In held the first Make Mine a Million Dollar Business 1000 event in Denver, CO where 250 women entrepreneurs had the opportunity to pitch their business before a panel of experts for a chance at a coveted spot in the M3 program. Watch this interview with Holly Landau from the event answering some questions on the minds of women business owners. Find more videos from this event and additional small business tips at openforum.com, an online community to help you power your small business success.

Leslie Grossman, Founder, Women’s Leadership Exchange speaking at the American Express OPEN Women’s Business Summit. To have a powerful vision, you must articulate a clear, compelling focused vision says Leslie Grossman, co-founder of Womens Leadership Exchange. At the American Express OPEN Women’s Business Summit, Leslie discusses the important traits that can help small business owners succeed; authentic communication, courage, and collaboration.

I would be a first time business owner, and would like to open a women’s Intimate Apparel store. How can I get started. Do I need a business loan, how would I go about renting space?

Can anyone help me cut through the crap and let me know where and how to apply for grants to open a small business. I’m a single mother of one dependent in college and want to open a “sweets” business (cakes, cookies, candies). I have lousy credit due to an ugly divorce. Please help if you have any experience with this.

I have checked all the supposed grants lists that you have to purchase and most of the grants available to women owned business are not for start-ups. They appear to be for tools once you are already in business, like money to pay an IT person or accountant if you need it. SBA has a 10,000.00 microloan that you still have to have good credit to get for a start up but I will need about 20,000.00 total. I can try to get a tax id number but even that would be New credit which can be worse than no credit. Anyone have this as a specialty or gone through this same situation lately?