Virginia LittlejohnCo-Head, US Delegation to Women20 of the G20 Countries · Women Entrepreneurship

Interview Virginia Littlejohn

27 May 2011 · 1 min

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Virginia Littlejohn identifies three barriers for women entrepreneurs: trouble getting credit after the financial crisis, difficulty scaling beyond small operations, and bias against socially focused ventures. Cartier is working to address these gaps.

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What are some of the main issues facing women entrepreneurs? Well, I would say that one of the main issues of women's entrepreneurship and male entrepreneurship as well is access to credit right now, because with the financial crisis, that's been a real crisis at the global level for enterprises, you know, with getting money. But I think another big one is thinking really big, the ability to scale and to really grow a business that has high impact. And I would say that there's also So a really strong bias on the part of both the applicants and the judges with business that have social impact. That's really important to us, and it's just thrilling that Cartier realizes the importance of this. I'm floating through the air.