[Chixla] Smart Money Article "Small Business For Female Entrepreneurs"

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http://smartmoney.com/smallbiz/index.cfm?story=20060505
Interesting article ... possibily a growing trend :)  Excerpt below. The
article includes links to some organizations that provide resources,
networking and other information or support to women business owners.
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The center's research reveals that women now own roughly 10.6 million
firms, or nearly half of all privately held businesses in the country.
That's a statistic that has hooked banks such as Wells Fargo, KeyCorp
and Merrill Lynch, which see women business owners as a ripe market for
loans and other financial services. Wells Fargo, in fact, announced at
Tuesday's roundtable that it had surpassed $25 billion in lending to
female entrepreneurs since starting its Women's Business Services
program - the first in the country - in 1995.