Featured panelists are:
Maria Flynn: acquisition coach, former director at Cerner Corp, and former CEO of Orbis Biosciences. She became Orbis Biosciences’ first employee in 2008, and as CEO, she led the company through its sale in 2020 to Adare Pharmaceuticals.
Ben Schultz: founder of LaborChart, which developed real-time workforce management software for the construction industry. The company, whose revenue growth had been doubling every year, sold in 2021 to Procore Technologies.
Isaac Collins: owns three Yogurtini's, including one he bought and scaled five months into the pandemic. He also is founder and CEO of Streamlined Profit Academy which coaches entrepreneurs on how to scale their companies.
Bo Lais: co-founder and CEO of property tech startup Lula, which raised $3 million earlier this year. Its pivot to focusing on its ideal customer helped revenue skyrocket by 300% in 2021.
Melanie Bolin: co-founder of Mersea, a lifestyle company whose products are carried in 1,300 stores. In 2018, it ranked No. 279 on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, with a 1,750% three-year revenue growth rate.
The global pandemic sparked a rise in startup businesses and entrepreneurship in the majority of Black areas. At the same time, we’ve also seen the struggles that Black entrepreneurs face in securing funding to support their businesses. Now in 2022, there is a surge of consumers rallying to support Black businesses, and just over 1.2 million African Americans making the move to be self-employed. It seems the time is now to capitalize on this renewed focus on Black businesses, but many still wonder how to take the leap.
Join BXKC for our next Rebuild Honestly forum featuring a panel of Black professionals who work in the startup space to give their perspectives on the industry and firsthand experiences as Black founders. The startup industry can be a game changer when thinking about creating wealth and jobs in our city. Don’t miss your opportunity to tap in and learn more!
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About Rebuild Honestly
The Rebuild Honestly platform was created to provide a safe space for courageous conversations surrounding economic development in the Black community. The goal is to spark collaboration and encourage a unified course of action to push the Black community forward.
Los Centros de desarrollo de pequeñas empresas (SBDC, por sus siglas en inglés) trabaja con la SBA para desarrollar y proporcionar recursos informativos para apoyar las pequeñas empresas. Esta sesión compartirá información sobre los recursos proporcionados por los Centros de Desarrollo de Pequeñas Empresas (SBDC) sin costo gracias al apoyo de la SBA (Administración de Pequeños Negocios de los Estados Unidos). Los temas incluyen:
- ¿Cómo ayuda el SBDC a las pequeñas empresas?
- Asistencia y asesoramiento en su área para comenzar, operar y hacer crecer su empresa.
There’s been a huge amount of interest in this topic—much more than I ever could have imagined. A lot of entrepreneurs are exhausted by social media and would very much like to leave it behind or reduce their amount of time on it. I hope this class feels like a permission slip to run your business in whatever way feels best to you.
Upon finishing this class, you might choose to quit social media forever. Or you might choose to keep Instagram but delete Facebook. Or you may choose to firm up boundaries and reduce the amount of time you spend online. Whatever decisions you make, I congratulate you. ♥
