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What is “Startup Princess?”

Startup Princess is an international network committed to Empowering Women Entrepreneurs by offering resources for women in business to support, mentor, collaborate, learn from, and inspire one another.  In 2006, after struggling to raise funding for an initial business venture, Kelly King Anderson recognized an important market niche existed for reliable resources educating women desiring to start and grow successful businesses, thus Startup Princess was developed.

Startup Princess offers the following resources for women entrepreneurs:

*Education offering Conferences, Retreats, Weekly #StartupChats on Twitter (Wednesdays 2pm EST) an informative Blog, Entrepreneurial Coaching, and inspiration from our Fairy Godmothers who are successful women entrepreneurs willing to share their secrets to success in business.

*Encouragement offering social events that enable women entrepreneurs the opportunity to build relationships with the intent to support, mentor, collaborate, learn from, and inspire one another.

*Exchange offering online and Startup Princess events that allow for business networking opportunities.

How Do You Join?

Sign up for our monthly newsletter! All “Startup Princesses” (women entrepreneurs or women business owners) are invited to join our community for FREE and receive our email updates and announcements. (See right side bar of homepage.)

Register in our Startup Princess Directory, also a free service.

Follow us on Twitter and Join our Facebook Fanpage

Featured interviews on Startup Princess.com are by invitation to women entrepreneurs only. If you would like to be considered email us or leave a comment.

Fairy Godmothers are experienced women entrepreneurs and women in business who write as guest bloggers, do teleseminars, speak at events, and consult for Startup Princess. Fairy Godmothers participate by invitation.

Questions? Ideas? We’d love to hear from you. Please contact us here.

Executive Team:

Kelly King Anderson, Founder

Twitter @startupprincess

Kelly King Anderson, the Founder of Startup Princess has always been passionate about making a difference in the lives of others. While pursuing a Master’s degree Kelly thought of a creative retail concept, developed a solid business plan and won 2nd place nationally at The Wake Forest MBA business plan competition. During and after the competition Kelly recognized there was a serious lack of resources available for women in startups and she decided to organize Startup Princess to serve women in the startup phase of their businesses, to surround them with support, connections, and mentors that would help them move forward.  Startup Princess provides free online resources and twitter chats plus produces national live events, retreats and coaching.  Startup Princess was featured as a Top Resource for Women Entrepreneurs by Costco Connection and Entrepreneur. Forbes listed Startup Princess as one of the top 10 sites for Women Entrepreneurs in July 2011. Kelly has been featured on the covers of Wasatch Woman and Utah Business magazines, Named one of the Top 30 Women to Watch in Utah Business and has published multiple business articles online and in print. Her specialties are in marketing strategy, PR, branding, life and business planning, and social media. The Startup Princess Twitter account updated by Kelly is considered an Elite account – ranked in the Top 25 of Most Powerful Women on Twitter by Twittergrader with over 140,000 followers.

Previous to Startup Princess Kelly worked as an Assistant Producer for a Radio Station, Account Executive for a Marketing Firm, and as a Freelance Publicist for an International Tae Kwon Do Champion, helping her client to receive national media attention on Today’s Show, CNN, and more. In college she and some friends lived in Bulgaria and saw firsthand the devastation orphans were facing and decided to start a non-profit in 2003 to assist them, One Heart Bulgaria http://www.oneheart-bg.org. Today the organization collects over $100k in sponsorship funds annually to give nutritional support, medical care, and educational programs to the children and employs retired Bulgarian Grandmothers to care for the children, adding significantly to their quality of life and emotional needs. While not active in the organization at this time, Kelly has served as a board member for a few years, produced a benefit CD, traveled to Bulgaria on service missions and remains a legally recognized Trustee of the organization.

Kelly lives in beautiful Utah with her husband and three children.

Here’s a clip of Kelly on Studio 5 discussing “How to Find Time for Your Passions”

Michelle McCullough, Managing Director

Twitter @speakmichelle

Michelle became a partner in Startup Princess  in 2008.  She is responsible for event planning, marketing, affiliates, sponsorships and partnerships. Over the past 3 years she has coached women entrepreneurs and helped them grow their businesses from “dream in development” to established thriving businesses.  Michelle is a speaker, strategist, success coach and a serial entrepreneur. She started Doodads Promotional Products when she was 19. She also spent the last 12 years working in marketing and advertising. She’s worked in all aspects of the industry from production to creative and sales to management. On top of her full-time jobs, Michelle has cultivated her love for entrepreneurship by running Doodads as a successful side business. In 2008 when Michelle quit her full-time job to be home more with her newborn son, she moved Doodads to the front burner and doubled the income in 2008 and doubled it again in 2009.  Today it continues to thrive.  This year Michelle launched a coaching program called “The Life Balance Myth” to help busy entrepreneurs build thriving businesses AND meaningful personal lives.  She believes that life balance is a myth, but she provides practical tools to achieve personal and professional success.  You can learn more about Michelle at SpeakMichelle.com Michelle has 2 children under 4 and lives in Utah.

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Startup Princess is an international network committed to empowering Women Entrepreneurs by offering resources for women in business to support, mentor, collaborate, learn from, and inspire one another. In 2006, after struggling to raise funding for an initial startup business venture, Kelly King Anderson recognized an important market niche existed for reliable resources educating women desiring to start and grow successful businesses, thus Startup Princess was developed.

Successful women entrepreneurs understand that for every business venture, they are in charge of creating, organizing, developing, managing, and assuming all the risks associated with their enterprise. That can seem quite intimidating but as other women business owners will tell you, it’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it! Success is within your grasp and Startup Princess is here to help.

First, join as a member of Startup Princess and start building a solid foundation. Membership entitles you to a listing in the Startup Princess Online Directory where we list women owned businesses. You’ll also access exclusive content like articles, videos, and audio straight from your email inbox. Coupled with feature interviews, discounts on events, networking connections, and press opportunities, your Startup Princess membership will give any woman entrepreneur a great start for her business!

Then, take advantage of Touchpoint, our annual business conference for women entrepreneurs. Practical planning meets sky-high inspiration at this high-impact event for women business owners to network and develop their approach to business with wisdom and creative direction from other women entrepreneurs across the country.

Need a little help taking your business to the next step? Wish you had a fairy godmother like Cinderella offering you a helping hand? Now you can! Startup Princess is the home of Fairy Godmother Consulting, volunteer mentors sharing tips and insights to bless the lives of other women entrepreneurs.

Startup Princess can offer many benefits to women in business from future women business owners to successful women entrepreneurs. Please call or fill out our contact form with questions, concerns, or general interest and let us help you by giving you full access to everything Startup Princess has to offer!