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Become Your Own Boss: 10 Steps To Launch Your Own Business

Launch your own business, start a business, by Valerie Naidoo

Photograph by Christin Hume

Female entrepreneurs possess a great ability to start up — and sustain — any business imaginable. Follow these 10 steps to script your own happiness by pursuing a life and career that lights you up.

Given the current economic reality, more women are waking up to the realization that the career they thought was waiting for them simply does not exist. Many women are also tired of the 9 to 5 soul-crushing cubicle workplace that holds down latent talents with an iron bar while offering very little in terms of free thinking and balance. If this scenario resonates with you, it may be time to summon your inner entrepreneur.

Here are 10 steps to launching your own

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