As more women put off having children to pursue careers, Ms. Mullen says, they accumulate business skills and capital -- then use both to start businesses after taking pregnancy leaves.
He is also a consummate schmoozer, who has been accumulating business cards since college.
While most young women engaged in it to meet basic material needs, many did so to seek beauty products, such as skin creams or "cool" clothes, or to accumulate business capital.
Once you've reached a certain level of security - you've paid the mortgage if you still had one and taken care of the basics of life, and you can afford one or two luxuries - people who accumulate businesses and business interests just to make more money are a little bit unwell, I think.
In the weeks since it opened, it's accumulated notes, business cards, ticket stubs, money, a dry-cleaning receipt, children's art, a paper mobile, work-for-hire notices, and the inevitable ephemera of New York: a "no menus" sign and a "Dan Smith will teach you guitar" flyer.
But we saw that there were some bad habits that we had accumulated because business is, relatively speaking, easier.
Now he claimed he was sampling that alternative life — but common sense, self-protection, could not be grafted on by visiting a campus or accumulating elegant business suits.
As cuts accumulated in each business cycle, so did tuition increases.
In the US presidential race, Barack Obama has attempted to paint his opponent, Mitt Romney, as out of touch with mainstream American life partly because of the vast wealth the Republican accumulated during his business career.
Nearly two years after Maryland's first casino opened, the state has yet to dole out any of the $3.6 million in slots revenue that has accumulated for small businesses.
I sort of accumulated them through the business.
