Self Made

Small Business For WomenWal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) on Thursday will launch a line of products from small, women-owned companies on its website, its newest push to position itself as a frontrunner in ladies’s financial empowerment.

The Women’s Business School is providing $one hundred eighty,000 in full and matched funding scholarships to deserving ladies starting a business this 12 months. The Women’s Business School is providing two Full Scholarships and 5 Matched Scholarships for each city (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Cairns, Townsville and Perth). The whole of $180,000 in scholarships is being broken down into sixteen Full Scholarships valued at $5000 each and 40 matched funding scholarships of $2500 each.

The problem starts already at suppliers’ level. They quote the small business far higher costs than the big boys as a substitute of thinking to give the same prices and even decrease to the small businesses. The point I am making is that …