Last week, Microsoft Office Live Small Business held its first Vision to Venture event, an entrepreneurial conference for new and veteran women entrepreneurs.  The event featured discussions and presentations by experts including Rich Sloan, author and co-founder of StartupNation , Susan Wilson Solovic, author and co-founder of Small Business Television , and John Jantsch, author and founder of Duct Tape Marketing . The day-long conference, which debuted in St. Louis, will travel to four more sites over the next month. After May 15, the conference will be available as an on-demand webcast and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Dress for Success, a nonprofit that provides interview suits, confidence boosts and career development to low-income women in more than 75 cities worldwide. --Lindsay Holloway