The Internet has opened a whole New World of opportunity for even the smallest home-based business owner. There are countless numbers of new self-made millionaires that achieved their newfound success on the Internet. These new millionaires are no different from you and me. They started their Internet businesses from the ground up, found a niche and built their success one day at a time.
“Can I really make money on the Internet?” The fact of the matter is that you really can make money on the Internet -- a lot of money. You simply must take the necessary steps to make it happen. You must have a sincere desire to succeed and the attitude for success.
The present paper investigates migrant female entrepreneurship on the basis of driving forces, motivation and performance of migrant women entrepreneurs. We review the factors that push migrant females towards entrepreneurship and that determine their entrepreneurial performance. In order to understand and test the determinant factors behind the motivation towards entrepreneurship as well as the economic and survival performance of migrant women entrepreneurs, this paper addresses in the empirical part Turkish female entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. The data and information used for evaluation are based on in-depth personal interviews. As a rather novel methodological contribution, a recently developed artificial intelligence method, i.e. rough set analysis, is deployed to assess and identify the most important factors in motivation and performance of migrant females.
The main feature of economic restructuring in the last decades has been a marked shift from employment in large firms to self-employment in small firms. This trend has been most pronounced among members of two different groups: immigrants and women. The increasing rate of business ownership among both immigrant groups and women has become one of the driving forces of the growth of national economies, in particular, in the US and in many countries in Europe (Barrett et al., 1996; Borjas, 1986 and 1990; Center for Women’s Business Research, 2004 and 2005; Cross, 1992; GEM, 2004; Gorter et al., 1998; Kloosterman et al., 1998; OECD 2001a, 2001b and 2006; Weeks 2001; Pearce, 2005). Actually, both ethnic and female participation in terms of self-employment and entrepreneurship are seen as powerful economic forces and contributors to a solution to structural labor market problems in many industrialized countries.
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest from pediatric neurologists,neuropediatricians,epilep-tologists and general neurologists in the use of the ketogenic diet (KD) for the management of refractory epilepsies. In parallel with this interest, a number of studies have been completed addressing a wide range of issues related to this diet, from its mechanisms of action in animal models to its efficacy and tolerability profiles in different populations of patients. In recognition of this, the Institute of Neurology IRCCS C.
Mondino Foundation in Pavia, Italy, took the initiative of organizing, on 24 September 2005, an international workshop whose purposes were to discuss the rationale for the use of the KD, and bridge basic science data with evidence from clinical experience; review critically and update current acquisitions on the use of the diet in the epilepsies; highlight controversies concerning indications and modes of application; identify areas and methodology for future research.
