Celebrating Female Entrepreneurs On The Stock Exchange

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Nell Merlino, who helped found Take Your Daughter to Work Day and is now founder of Count Me in for Women’s Economic Independence, a resource for female entrepreneurs, was invited to a breakfast on the floor with Goldman Sachs partners to promote the holiday.

“At the time, that was the most women who had ever been on the floor,” she says. “It just says that we have to keep doing this, keep showing up and keep showing men and women that we can do this.”

On Friday morning however, Merlino was raising awareness of the impact of female entrepreneurship on job creation and the economy by ringing the opening bell while fellow female business owners whistled and cheered beside her.

Count Me In was founded in 1999 as a non-profit online micro-lender for female entrepreneurs. Today it is perhaps best known for its major initiative, Make Mine a Million $ Business, a contest that aims to inspire women business owners to reach $1 million in revenue.

“A lot of women suffer from a vision that’s too small,” Merlino says. “We do a lot of work with that. We get women to think about what they would like to accomplish with their businesses if there were no limits. They’ve often never said it to anyone before.”

Screenshot from Count Me In

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