《財富》最具影響力的女創業家(2)
Maria Rios
瑪麗亞里奧斯company: Nation Waste, Inc.
公司：垃圾處理公司Nation WasteAge: 46
年齡：46
Rios is no stranger to hard work. She moved to the U.S. from El Salvador when she was a child. She graduated at the top of her high school class and raised a family while putting herself through college. She was not intimidated when she started Nation Waste Inc. At just 22, months after graduating from the University of Houston, she took out loans and purchased two trucks, jumping into the male-dominated waste-removal industry. Today, her Houston-based company has 24 full-time employees. "It is pretty amazing when I look back and see, I started as a little girl entering the United States with my parents and now I am truly living the American dream," says Rios.
里奧斯工作非常努力。她很小的時候就從薩爾瓦多來到了美國。以優異成績從高中畢業後，她一邊養家，一邊讀完大學。成立Nation Waste Inc.公司的時候，她並沒有感到害怕。22歲的時候，里奧斯剛剛從休斯敦大學（the University of Houston）畢業幾個月就貸款購買了兩輛卡車，毅然投身由男性主導的垃圾處理行業。目前，這家位於休斯敦的公司有24名全職員工。里奧斯說：“回頭看看過去的經歷，總是讓我感到吃驚。我很小的時候就跟着父母來到美國，現在我正在實現我的美國夢。”Rose Wang
蘿絲王Company: Binary Group
公司：技術服務公司Binary GroupAge: 44
年齡：44歲Wang studied computer programming while growing up in China. After college, she hoped to move to the U.S. to start her career. The next year, the Chinese Students Protection Act was passed and Wang got her master's in computer science at University of Houston. She worked at several Silicon Valley startups (and launched her own, ) until September 11, 2001. The attack inspired her to create Binary Group, a technology consulting company that works with the Federal Government. Over the past 16 years, Binary has helped its clients save piles of money -- like the Army 20th Support Command, which cut $60 million over five years for its satellite communication bandwidth requirements.
蘿絲王在中國長大，在那裏學會了計算機編程。大學畢業後，她希望到美國工作。第二年，《中國學生保護法案》（Chinese Students Protection Act）獲得通過，蘿絲王獲得了休斯敦大學的計算機科學碩士學位。2001年9月11日之前，她曾在多家硅谷初創公司（包括成立自己的公司）工作。911事件讓她產生了創辦Binary Group的想法。Binary Group是一家與聯邦政府合作的科技諮詢公司。過去16年間，這家公司幫助客戶節省的資金不計其數——比如美軍第20支援司令部（Army 20th Support Command）就在五年時間內共節省了6,000萬美元衛星通信帶寬開支。Sarah Collins
薩拉考林斯Company: (Wonderbag) Natural Balance
公司：（Wonderbag）Natural Balance公司Age: 43
年齡：43歲Collins grew up in rural, apartheid-era South Africa in the 1970s. Her childhood inspired her to focus on empowering women living below the poverty line through grassroots efforts. The Wonderbag, which was inspired by watching her grandmother cook with cushions, uses heat retention technology to cook food for 8-12 hours without the need for additional fuel. Collins witnessed the benefits African women received from using Wonderbags, reducing the amount of time they spent collecting firewood. For every bag sold, another is donated to a household in Africa, and in the past four years, the Wonderbags have found themselves in 600,000 African homes. Collins has launched the Wonderbag in the U.S. on Amazon, and hopes to sell the products via other retailers by 2014.
上世紀70年代，考林斯出生在落後的、種族隔離時期的南非。她的童年經歷讓她更關注通過民間的努力改善貧困女性的生活。創辦Wonderbag的靈感源自她觀察祖母藉助墊子做飯的經歷。Wonderbag使用保暖技術在8至12個小時內烹飪食物，無需額外增加燃料。考林斯親眼見證了非洲女性使用Wonderbag所帶來的好處——它減少了她們收集柴火的時間。每賣出一個Wonderbag，這家公司就會向非洲的家庭捐贈一個這樣的袋子。過去四年，Wonderbag已經走進600,000個非洲家庭。考林斯還通過亞馬遜（Amazon）在美國推出了Wonderbag，並希望到2014年的時候能夠通過其他零售商出售自己的產品。Sari Davidson
賽瑞戴維森Company: BooginHead
公司：兒童用品公司BooginHeadAge: 39
年齡：39歲In 2005, Davidson found herself constantly picking up sippy cups her one-year-old son Jake would toss to the ground. She went to Target, bought a sewing machine, and created the SippiGrip, a leash-like contraption for a sippy cup. Her entrepreneurial dreams were slowed, however -- she was recruited by Microsoft to join the HR team working with its X-Box Group. But in 2007, she launched the SippiGrip at a national trade show. Fortuitously, Target approached her to join its 2008 Parent Invented Products Program and today, Davidson's BooginHead line is sold by retailers like Walmart, Babies "R" Us, and .
2005年，戴維森發現自己總是得跟在一歲大的兒子傑克後面，收拾他隨處亂扔的兒童吸管杯。於是，她從塔吉特（Target）上買了一臺縫紉機，爲兒童吸管杯設計出一個類似皮帶的奇妙裝置——SippiGrip。但她並沒有很快實現自己的創業夢想——她加入了微軟人力資源團隊，與X-Box部門合作。2007年，她在全國性貿易展上推出了SippiGrip。幸運的是，塔吉特邀請她參加2008年父母發明產品計劃。目前，戴維森的產品已經在沃爾瑪（Walmart）、嬰兒反斗城（Babies "R" Us）和亞馬遜等零售商開賣。
