Coming in at number four, Florida is estimated to have 587,600 firms owned by women. These statistics were released in March of this year from the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report. Together these firms raise about 77.6 billion dollars in revenue each year for the sunshine state. Between 1997 and 2012 Florida’s women-owned firms have grown 73.9 percent. To find out more about Florida’s women workforce visit The Orlando Business Journal.
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post