Welcome to the Women in Small Business blog. This blog is intended to research and provide insight on the successes, failures and statistics of American women in small businesses. I am currently pursuing my Bachelor's degree at Brandman University. A milestone I am set to achieve in June of 2017. I will then further my education by completing an MBA. While the topic of women in small businesses is of great interest to me, it affects me personally. You see, I am an American woman, small business owner. I still have a great deal to learn about being a small business owner and feel the research conducted in this blog will be informational to you, the reader, as well as helpful to me.

There are many aspects of women in small business. I aim to focus on women who have paved the way to success. I will conduct research on what has made them successful. I will also develop insight into the failures of not only women in small business but small business failure in general. I will compare and contrast women and men in small businesses, along with measuring strengths, weaknesses and setbacks. I feel the more I understand about women in small business, the greater my chances are for success. I am also an advocate for women in my community. Therefore I hope my research will encourage and strengthen other women into becoming bigger players in the realm of American small businesses.  

There are challenges I hope to overcome while conducting my research. I find that it’s hard to cite reliable sources. Many of the information we come across in the technological age is online and often times it’s unreliable. On the other hand, the only access I have to confirmed scholarly sources is within the Brandman University online library. I want to improve my knowledge in finding reliable, credible sources. I also want to broaden my knowledge on where to locate scholarly and peer reviewed articles related to my topic.