prowessblog has been in San Francisco this week with a UK delegation on the Prowess study trip on women’s entrepreneurship. Previous US trips have focused on Washington DC – so what’s different about SF? An even more overwhelming sense of entrepreneurship being a ‘way of life’ – heavily influenced by Silicon Valley.
We’ve visited a wide range of initiatives, some targeting very low-income clients and others high-growth, technology enterprises. We were blown away by the Delancey Street Foundation – which only deals with people who have had significant problems with drugs/alcolohol/crime. It uses a business model to help them get back into society and over 500 people live together in a ‘village’ they’ve built themselves. At the other end of the spectrum, we spent time with the Women’s Presidents Organisation – members have to be turning over more than $1million to join – and it’s obviously a very powerful peer support model. More from SF later. Time for prowessblog to see more of the city!
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