Albuquerque consultant and author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit Peri Pakroo discusses & signs her new book The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit (Nolo, $29.99), which retains its focus on women's business-related issues and includes interviews with successful women who have started businesses.  Approximately ten million US businesses are currently women-owned, and the number is growing at twice the national average for all businesses, and this book specifically emphasizes concerns for female entrepreneurs.

Peri Pakroo manages P-Brain media, consults for businesses and nonprofits, teaches adult education courses at the Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team (WESST), a nonprofit whose mission is to facilitate entrepreneurship among women and inorities in the state of New Mexico, and Peri is active in supporting local, independent businesses and is a co-founder of the Albuquerque Independent Business Alliance.