Sharon Vinderine has a big mission for her company and her life, and it is founded on trust.
As the founder and CEO of Parent Tested Parent Approved, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S. and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism.
Read MoreThe third envelope in the class exercise at Goldman Sachs Small Business Program was the key.
Jennifer Beall Saxton, founder and CEO of Tot Squad, recalls the class exercise was to open three envelopes in succession. In the first envelope was a fake check for $50,000. The assignment was to figure out what as a start-up, you could do with that influx of cash. Saxton had plenty of ideas.
Read MoreIt was early on Thanksgiving morning a few years back and I had just placed a stuffed 24-pound turkey in the oven. I called my mom to double check how long to bake the extra stuffing in a separate casserole dish. After I dialed her familiar number, I could not believe I momentarily forgot she passed a month earlier and this would be my first holiday without her culinary help.
Sure, I had her cookbooks, my cookbooks and boxes filled with stain-splashed recipe cards, but calling my mom was easier, until it wasn’t.
Read MoreYou’re never too young to start thinking about your health as an older woman.
Alicia Jackson, CEO, and Liya Brook, are co-founders of Evernow, a company focused on helping women live longer, healthier lives coping with menopause with a prescription-based model with telemedicine access to doctors and treatments 24/7.
Read MorePerhaps it is no coincidence that her high school classmate at Niles West High School in north suburban Chicago Was Merrick Garland, the recently appointed United States Attorney General.
It seems Suzanne Lerner similarly had her sights set on bigger issues, justice and a global mission. In high school, she participated in Project Wingspread, an exchange program with students from urban and suburban high schools.
Read MoreA lot of the Greek gods were already taken.
So Sabari Raja, co-founder and CEO of Nepris, an education technology company, settled on the Greek god Nepris as the name of her new company who is the “lord of sustenance.”
“We were looking for unique names to build a brand, so we turned to the Greek gods, and every Greek god was already an education company,” says Raja, whose platform connects 85,000 K-12 educators with experts for instruction to more than 550,000 students in this country.
Read More“Just start.”
That is author and renowned journalist Heather Cabot’s advice to entrepreneurs as well as her own motto.
With her latest book out this month, The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream, hitting a bestseller list on Amazon recently, Cabot is taking stock of her successes as well as looking for what she will tackle next.
Read MoreAugust is Black Business Month in this country and it is prime time to check in on the effects of the last four months on Black women entrepreneurs. They have been hardest hit by the economic downturn nationally. It is also time to heed the advice of Black women who have started, maintained and succeeded with their businesses in good and bad tines.
According to the Chicago Tribune, “The number of active Black-owned businesses in the U.S. plummeted 41 percent during the early months of the pandemic from February to April, more than twice the 17 percent level of white owned businesses, research by Robert Fairlie from the University of California Santa Cruz shows.”
Read MoreIssue 131 — June 15, 2020
There is ambition and there is intention. Ambition is I hope, I wish, I want. Intention is I will, I am doing it, there was never a question.
Elma Beganovich’s intention is clear: to win the same size contracts that any of the big four ad agencies would get based on her company’s ability and the talent she and her sister and cofounder Amra bring.
Amra and Elma founded A&E, a digital agency with an impressive client portfolio of Fortune 500 companies like J&J, P&G, Netflix, VF Corp, and Wells Fargo. They are mega influencers with over 2.2 million social followers.
Read MoreThis was not the original plan. The 2020 Future For Us second annual assembly for women of color was to be live, in person and in Seattle this spring.
“This pandemic has shown our fight or flight mode,” says Sage Ke’alohilani Quiamno, CEO and co-founder of Future For Us, a community platform of more than 10,000 women of color professionals based in Seattle. “Women of color, we know what to do,” she says.
Read More“My name is Miracle, because I am one.”
Miracle Olatunji, 20, and a sophomore at Northeastern University in Boston, has launched more startup ideas and done more to mentor others, than most people twice her age. And her name comes from the fact that her mother was bedridden when she was pregnant with her in Nigeria, and was told her baby would not survive.
Read MoreOne size does not fit all.
Tanya Zhang is filling a fashion void with her new clothing line of shirts. But it is not for herself or other women, but for her spouse, father, and other Asian American Pacific Islander men who swear their shirts don’t fit.
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