Monica Mehta
{{Short description|American financial journalist}}
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Monica Mehta (born 1974) is an American financial journalist and investor. She authored The Entrepreneurial Instinct: How Everyone Has the Innate Ability to Start a Successful Small Business{{cite web|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227768|website = Entrepreneur|title = Look at Problems From an Outsider's POV and 4 More Business Tips From the Week|last = Eha|first = Brian Patrick| date=9 August 2013 }} and writes small business and finance columns for Inc. and Entrepreneur. She also writes for the Wall Street Journal's "The Experts."{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/experts/tag/monica-mehta/|title=Monica Mehta News - The Experts - WSJ|website=WSJ|access-date=2016-04-03}} Mehta has appeared on national cable networks including Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg Television, MSNBC and HBO.{{cite web|url=http://www.shesource.org/experts/profile/monica-mehta|title = Monica Mehta Profile|website = Shesource}}{{cite web|url=http://kmmsam.com/monica-metha-on-entrepreneurs-open-for-business-saturday-922/|website = AM1450KMMS|title = Monica Mehta On Entrepreneurs – Open for Business Saturday 9/22|last = Egelhoff|first = Tom| date=21 September 2012 }} She is a managing principal at Seventh Capital, a Texas-based investment firm.{{cite web|url=https://www.openforum.com/videos/small-biz-startup/|website = American Express Open Forum|title = Small Biz Startup}}{{cite web|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227768|title = Look at Problems From an Outsider's POV and 4 More Business Tips From the Week|last = Eha|first = Brian Patrick|website = Entrepreneur| date=9 August 2013 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2012/09/30/how-to-train-your-mind-to-become-entrepreneurial/|website = Forbes|title = How to Train Your Mind to Become Entrepreneurial|last = Schawbel|first = Dan}}
Early life
Mehta is Indian-American.{{cite web|url=http://houston.netip.org/events/view/507d74af-a068-4d42-8e09-3461c665e11f|website = NetIP Houston|title = Meet Monica Mehta author of "The Entrepreneurial Instinct"}} Her father was a merchant marine ship’s captain. She spent her early childhood living at sea, until her family immigrated to Texas in 1980. Her parents faced initial struggles as new immigrants before becoming successful small business owners.{{cite web|url=http://adamcarolla.com/monica-mehta-and-david-wild/|website = The Adam Carolla Show|title = Episodes: Monica Mehta and David Wild}}{{cite web|url=http://www.blogher.com/why-rhetoric-against-successful-must-end|title = Why the Rhetoric Against the Successful Must End|website = BlogHer|last = Mehta|first = Monica}} Mehta received a Bachelor of Science with a major in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.{{cite web|url=http://whartonmagazine.com/issues/fall-2012/the-bookshelf/|website = Wharton Magazine|title = The Bookshelf| date=20 April 2012 }} Mehta was a small business consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center assisting local West Philadelphia businesses in writing business plans and preparing loan applications.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.sg/html/9780071797429.html|website = McGraw-Hill Education|title = "The Entrepreneurial Instinct" description}} She is a 1993 graduate of Stratford High School in Houston Texas.
Career and media appearances
Mehta is Managing Principal for Seventh Capital, an investment firm with offices in New York and Texas.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2012/09/30/how-to-train-your-mind-to-become-entrepreneurial/|website = Forbes|title = How to Train Your Mind to Become Entrepreneurial|last = Schawbel|first = Dan}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20120306073803/http://www.businessweek.com/authors/1874-monica-mehta bio] for her BusinessWeek articles She started appearing on cable television as a business and finance expert in 2006. She is a frequent guest for programs including Real Time with Bill Maher, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox & Friends, The Adam Carolla Show, Your World with Neil Cavuto, "Closing Bell", CNN and ABC News.{{Cite web|url = http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/episodes/0/273-episode/|title = Real Time with Bill Maher: Ep 273 March 1, 2013|website = HBO.com}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=viewTVShowByDate&date=2012101|title = The O'Reilly Factor - Monday, October 1, 2012|website = Bill O'Reilly}}{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp_o2mUoF78|title = Monica Mehta on FNC Fox and Friends 9-14-2012|website = Youtube| date=4 October 2012 }}{{cite web|url = http://adamcarolla.com/bryan-cranston-and-monica-mehta/|title = Bryan Cranston and Monica Mehta|website = The Adam Carolla Show}}{{Cite web|url = http://video.foxnews.com/v/2296946972001/retail-sales-post-biggest-drop-in-nine-months/|title = Retail sales post biggest drop in nine months|website = Fox News| date=3 February 2017 }}{{Cite web|url = http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/09/02/msnbcs-melissa-harris-perry-loses-temper-cant-stand-the-wealthy-being-regarded-as-risk-takers/|title = MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Loses Temper, Can't Stand the Wealthy Being Regarded as Risk Takers|website = Hot Air| date=2 September 2012 }}{{Cite web|url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-xpm-2012-sep-04-la-et-st-melissa-harris-perry-msnbc-welfare-debate-20120904-story.html|title = MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry screams at guest in welfare debate|website = Los Angeles Times| date=4 September 2012 }}{{Cite web|url = https://www.bloomberg.com/video/investor-worry-policy-making-delay-in-spain-WcS3b2nAR9OOjw7Qi4MRRw.html|title = Investor Worry: Policy Making, Delay in Spain|website = Bloomberg TV}}{{Cite web|url = https://abcnews.go.com/Business/video/inspiring-kids-learn-entrepreneurship-teaching-money-college-opportunities-good-schools-business-14333074|title = Teaching Kids Entrepreneurial Skills|website = ABC News}}{{Cite web|url = https://finance.yahoo.com/news/debating-debt-debates-atlantic-economy-210700814.html|title = Debating the Debt Debates at Atlantic Economy Summit|website = Yahoo! Finance|last = Clemons|first = Steve| date=7 March 2013 }}{{Cite web|url = http://www.inc.com/author/monica-mehta|title = Monica Mehta's articles - Inc.com|website = Inc.}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.entrepreneur.com/author/2076|title = Monica Mehta - Entrepreneur.com|website = Entrepreneur}}{{Cite web|url = http://monicamehta.com/2013/10/22/cnn-unemployment-rate-drops-as-discouraged-job-seekers-call-it-quits/|title = CNN: Unemployment Rate Drops as Discouraged Job Seekers Call It Quits|website = monicamehta.com| date=23 October 2013 }}{{Cite web|url = http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000278871|title = Closing Bell Exchange: The 'Show Me' Market|website = CNBC.com}}
In 2014, Mehta was named Ambassador for Operation HOPE Project 5117, a non-partisan organization empowering economic mobility by providing credit counseling, banking programs for the poor, financial literacy and entrepreneurship training for at risk youth, in partnership with the White House, Department of Education and the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.{{Cite web|url=http://www.operationhope.org/news/nid/1593|title = Monica Mehta, Finance Expert, Joins Operation HOPE as Project 5117 Ambassador|website=operationhope.org}}
Book
In 2012 Mehta published The Entrepreneurial Instinct: How Everyone Has the Innate Ability to Start a Successful Small Business, which explores the role of behavior and brain chemistry in our ability to take entrepreneurial risks and bounce back from failure to start a financially successful business.{{Cite web|url = https://www.openforum.com/articles/is-brain-science-the-key-to-your-success/|title = Is Brain Science the Key to Your Success?|website = American Express Open Forum|last = O'Brien|first = James}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2013/2/28/bookshelf-march-1-2013.html|title = Bookshelf: March 1, 2013|website = HBO - Real Time with Bill Maher Blog| date=2003 }}{{Cite web|url = http://www.mercurynews.com/jobs/ci_21638253/biz-professor-entrepreneurs-have-unique-approach-risk|title = Biz Professor: Entrepreneurs have a unique approach to risk|website = Mercury News|last = Freeman|first = Bruce| date=26 September 2012 }}{{Cite web|url = http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51215088/ns/business-small_business/t/train-your-brain-overcome-fear/#.UgqGDlNDQ6o|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140504022353/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51215088/ns/business-small_business/t/train-your-brain-overcome-fear/#.UgqGDlNDQ6o|url-status = dead|archive-date = May 4, 2014|title = Train Your Brain to Overcome Fear|website = NBC News|first = Nadia|last = Goodman}}
The book was recognized as "Best Start-up Book" 2013 by Small Business Trends,{{Cite web|url = http://bookawards.smallbiztrends.com/news/winner-announcement-2013-small-business-book-awards/|title = Winner Announcement - 2013 Small Business Book Awards|website = Small Business Book Awards 2013}} and was a finalist for "Best Business & Economics Book of 2012" by Foreword Reviews,{{Cite web|url = https://botya.forewordreviews.com/books/the-entreprenuerial-instinct/|title = The Entrepreneurial Instinct|website = ForeWord Reviews}} and "Best Small Business Book of 2012" by the National Federation of Independent Businesses.{{Cite web|url = http://www.nfib.com/business-resources/business-resources-item?cmsid=61606|title = Best Small Business Books of 2012 - Part 2|website = National Federation of Independent Business}}
Bibliography
- Mehta Monica (2012). The Entrepreneurial Instinct: How Everyone Has the Innate Ability to Start a Successful Small Business. McGraw-Hill. {{ISBN|0071797424}}
References
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External links
- {{URL|http://www.monicamehta.com|Monica Mehta, official website}}
- {{URL|https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2772513/|Monica Mehta at the Internet Movie Database}}
- {{URL|http://www.businessweek.com/authors/1874-monica-mehta|Monica Mehta "Bloomberg Businessweek" articles}}
- {{URL|http://www.inc.com/author/monica-mehta|Monica Mehta "Inc." magazine articles}}
- {{URL|http://www.entrepreneur.com/author/2076|Monica Mehta "Entrepreneur" magazine articles}}
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