Business
When a Collaboration Sounds Exciting, Agree on This First
A promising collaboration can make you want to start right away. You see what each person could bring, picture what the two of you could build, and assume...
Olivia Hart
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Stories by Olivia Hart
Business
Business
Your Business Doesn't Need More Followers
A woman running a service business with eleven thousand followers and four clients does not have a marketing problem she can solve by getting to twenty tho...
Business
What Women Should Know About Equal Pay in 2026
The number moved in the wrong direction again. Women working full-time, year-round now earn 81 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to Census Bu...
Business
Before You Say Yes, Price the Whole Project
A client offers you $900 to write, design, plan, or build something. You look over the request, estimate six hours of work, and the offer feels like $150 a...
Business
Stop Trying to Sell to Everyone
Ask a woman who has been running a business for two years who her customer is, and you will frequently get an answer that covers most of the adult populati...
Business
The Business Women Are Quietly Building Around Care
In a converted storefront in a small city in Ohio, a woman named Renata Alvarez runs a company that provides support services to families managing dementia...
Business
What Female Founders Wish Their Investors Understood
In a conference room in San Francisco's South of Market district, a woman named Priya Mehta sat across from a partner at a major venture capital firm who h...
Essays
What the Latest Research Says About Women and Burnout
When Dr. Christina Maslach published the first comprehensive measure of workplace burnout in 1981, she did not expect it to become one of the most widely u...
Business
How Female Founders Are Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Business
In a small office above a bakery in Portland, Maine, a woman named Rachel runs a consulting firm that turned a profit in its first year and has not stopped...