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Word: parlapiano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...greater stake in 10.6 million U.S. businesses. Organizations and websites have sprung up to serve the women behind these enterprises. Ladies Who Launch, an online, women's-only networking group, offers live workshops to its 25,000 members--40% of whom are moms. Authors Patricia Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano dispense advice and provide message boards on a website specifically directed at mompreneurs--a term they coined to describe moms running home businesses and, in the entrepreneurial spirit, have trademarked. Mompreneursonline.com attracts 7 million visitors a month, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Mompreneurs | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...invention. But now more than ever, it seems that motherhood is a springboard. In fact, so many mothers are taking the entrepreneurial plunge that they have earned their own label: mompreneurs. "Moms are noticing needs in the marketplace that their parenthood gives them the vision to see," says Ellen Parlapiano, co-author of Mompreneurs: A Mother's Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Work-at-Home Success. "They're filling those niches instead of waiting for someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mothers of Invention | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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