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Our very own Morgan First has been named one of INC Magazine's '30 Under 30' Young Entrepreneurs of 2010!  She and her business partner Tyler Balliet have been recognized for building both The Second Glass , an e-zine about wine and the Wine Riot, which started here in Boston and is expanding to four more cities this year!

Way to go, Morgan!!

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We're so excited to share …Ladies Who Launch is featured on  ForbesWoman's 100 Best Websites For Women List!

Ladies Who Launch has been chosen as one of the ForbesWoman's Top 100 Websites for Women, noted as 'an active and engaging site for female entrepreneurs that provides a resources for starting, building and running a business!'

We absolutely are!

Some interesting factoids, culled during a recent business trip:

   * 67 is the percentage of inventions since WWII that have been created by entrepreneurs.

   * 530,000  new businesses were created in 2008.

   * Over 50% of companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 were launched during a recession or a bear market.

   * 21.9 million is the

Sovereign Bank will add more than 200 small business specialists across its coverage area, which the banks says will be dedicated to supporting new and existing small business customers. "Small business serves as the backbone of our economy and is a driver for job creation," said Jack Murphy, director of small and medium enterprises at Sovereign Bank. "The addition of more than

U.S. businesses owned by women have an economic impact of $3 trillion annually. That translates into the creation or maintenance of 16% of all jobs in the country, according to the Center for Women's Business Research. If U.S.-based women-owned businesses were their own country, it would have the fifth-largest GDP in the world.

Source: Center for Women's Business Research