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Georgia leads country in growth of women-owned businesses
Local business owners advise to hang in there when getting started
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Ava White, who started tutoring out of her home, sits in one of eight classrooms at Ava White Academy. The school specializes in teaching special needs students, White said, such as those with attention deficit disorder and autism. - photo by NAT GURLEY
There’s no one road for a woman to take when it comes to owning and operating her own business. “Basically, I kind of stumbled into it,” local business owner Ava White said. “It wasn’t a purposeful, ‘I’m going to have a business plan and five-year plan, 10-year plan.’ I kind of stumbled into it.”