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Constantly bombarded with a flurry of fashion’s “next big idea” Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake confessed in a Fortune Magazine article that she invests in very few of the start-ups she sees. However, a chance encounter with Nude Barre’s founder, Erin Carpenter, turned fate into a lucrative inve...
Every year, media research company The Lead announces their Foremost 50 List, a list that recognizes the 50 highest growth D2C retail and consumer brands. According to StreetInsider, the Foremost 50 are honored for their “innovation, total addressable market, media buzz, teams, competition, and ...
Black women are no strangers to imposter syndrome, especially in spaces that were created and curated for people that don’t look like them. Nonetheless, there are burgeoning Black woman-owned business owners that are shattering glass ceilings and paving the way for the next generation.
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In the year 2020 women started 1,821 new businesses every day and of those new businesses, 64% of them were created by women of color. Two years later, women of color are still shattering glass ceilings at an unprecedented rate, creating their own lanes in markets that are historically ignored b...
Every Black History Month Black-owned brands get an influx of love, and although we are appreciative, it feels wrong to relegate exemplary businesses to only one month of the year. Rhetoric like “support” is well intentioned, but we prefer dialogue that highlights the Black Renaissance the busin...
In this Inc. article, Nude Barre’s founder Erin Carpenter, details her struggles balancing CEO status with family life and mental health. With a successful business incepted from a mere $3,000 in savings, Carpenter details how moving revenue targets and skeptical (mostly white male) investors ma...