More Than 85 Broads

More than anything else, 85 Broads is the ultimate entrepreneurial venture. A pure act of faith in yourself and trust in the partnerships you can create. An unwillingness to compromise or be less than what you know in your heart you can create--regardless of conventional wisdom or expectations of others. Tune out the other voices and tune in your own voice.

Monique Maddy

Monique is a world-class marathon runner who was born in Liberia and educated in Britain and the U.S. She later moved back to Africa to execute a start-up business providing wireless telecommunications services to emerging market countries. The company eventually failed due to a combination of corruption, ineptitude, and bureaucracy Ð but none of that dampened her sprit as was determined to maintain her vision for self-reliance and entrepreneurialism in Africa.

"I relied on the lesson my father gave me more than once, 'If you don't know where you are going, just remember where you came from.'"

Rebecca Carr Eaton

Rebecca Eaton earned degrees from Duke and Harvard and later joined Siebel Systems as a Product Manager responsible for several products within its newly-released ERM product suite. During her time at Siebel, she worked nights and weekends on a business plan she had begun at Harvard Business School. In September of 2002 she quit Siebel to found Remote Clinical Solutions Ð a provider of standards-based remote patient monitoring solutions.

"You have to be passionate about what you're doing. This passion drives the quality of the team you can recruit and the number of obstacles you can overcome."

Andrea Miller

Before attending Columbia Business School, Andrea spent three years working in project finance for Enron in India. After earning her MBA she spent three years developing a new lifestyle magazine focused on love and relationships called Tango, which celebrated its first publication in February 2005. Miller sees it as the thinking womanÕs Cosmopolitan, with a sharp focus on relationships. The magazine appears six times a year and has a circulation of 200,000. Advertisers include Christian Dior and Elizabeth Arden.

"Networking is all about connecting with people and building a community, both of which are essential to my sense of well-being and wholeness."