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Calling all Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs...and Tyra Banks goes to Harvard

Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs 2011 is open for nominations and applications.

Each year, Fortune recognizes 10 female entrepreneurs who are outstanding game changers, groundbreakers, and innovators. We invite them as our special guests to the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit (this year, October 3-5 in Laguna Niguel, CA) and we share their success stories with our readers.

We're on the hunt for female founders of thriving U.S. or international companies with MORE

Career advice from Most Powerful Women

FORTUNE -- Last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Manhattan convened established stars, like Martha Stewart and Barbara Walters, with rising stars, like Chelsea Clinton and Barbara Bush. Two daughters of political dynasties converging in the same orbit.

And then there were 26 rising-star women from across the developing world--each a participant in the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring program. These young women were in the U.S. shadowing MORE

How to get women to love money

The debate rages on about women and money. After I published "Are women afraid of money?"--which stirred up this week's far-flung opinionated commentary--Susan Sobbott, president of American Express OPEN, emailed me her thoughts. Her note was so insightful that I asked her if I could run it as a Guest Post.

Sobbott knows entrepreneurs. At American Express (AXP) since 1990, she has headed OPEN, the company's small-business card unit for seven MORE

A tech entrepreneur's take on women and money

by Patricia Sellers

Monday's Postcard, asking "Are girls afraid of money?" is the blog post that keeps on giving.

Thanks, Postcards readers, for your spirited comments about Susan Wilson's Guest Post, in which she described placing $20 bills on random desks in a classroom at Georgetown University. The female students who walked into the room ignored the money--and wouldn't sit anywhere near it.

Some of you found Wilson's impromptu experiment bogus.

Fair enough. Others MORE

Are girls afraid of money? The answer is...

by Patricia Sellers

Monday's Postcard--detailing an experiment in which female undergrads revealed themselves to be practically allergic to $20 bills placed randomly in a classroom--drew a flood of comments and spirited debate about women and money.

Men, for the most part, said women do fear money. "Why the fear?" asked a Miami reader, Michael D. " "IMHO, it is learned behavior. Girls are bought things, boys are given opportunities to own them."

Other MORE

Are girls afraid of money?

While visiting a friend's daughter at Georgetown University earlier this month, I got lured into meeting with a group of 15 undergrads. The session was great fun and illuminating. These were bright young women whose ambitions ranged, they told me, from cleaning up the global environmental to achieving world peace to building Fortune 500 companies.

Not one shrinking violets here.

The weekly convener of these students is Susan Wilson, CEO of The MORE

Raising Venture Money: 10 tips for success

On Friday in Silicon Valley, I emcee'd the finale of BlogHer BET, a confab about Business, Entrepreneurism and Technology. One of my panelists was Janet Riccio, an EVP at Omnicom Group (OMC), who came on stage with 10 tips for raising start-up money. Riccio had gotten the list of tips from an entrepreneur she knows: Communispace CEO Diane Hessan, who agreed last month to sell her company to Omnicom for MORE

How to help Japan: Start a movement

by Patricia Sellers

In this era of social media, where we are all super-connected, the most ingenious do-good movements can begin with a tiny idea.

Make 'em viral and they will spread.

It happened with "The Last Text," the riveting video that AT&T (ATT) produced to coax people like you and me not to text and drive. The 10-minute film, which I wrote about on Postcards last month, has drawn more than two MORE

Stop the PDF invitations, please!

by Patricia Sellers

It's nice having a place to vent.

And while I usually use Postcards as a platform to share insights into powerful people and how they navigate their careers, today I need to gripe.

PDF invitations drive me crazy.

You can't copy and paste the information into your calendar.

You have to write everything manually.

Who has time for this?

I recently aired my compliant to someone who sends more invitations than I: Maryam Banikarim, MORE

Oprah's OWN moment: Stedman's note inspired the dream

by Patricia Sellers

Oprah Winfrey arrived on cable this weekend at long last. And I do mean long.

When I interviewed Oprah in her Chicago office a few months ago, she pulled a piece of paper out of her desk drawer. It was a note, scrawled in pencil, that Stedman Graham, her boyfriend, wrote to her when they were on vacation together in April 1992. Oprah had never shared the note with MORE