Write a Business Plan That Gets Attention and Drives Buy In The term can ring a little dull at first, but an effective business plan should be anything but ho-hum. It’s meant to be a catalyst that motivates investors to put their money behind a startup; gets a bank to greenlight a loan; causes a [...]
Why Women Need Their Own Money and Credit History In 1960, fewer than 4% of U.S. women earned more than their husbands. Today, about half of us earn the same or more than our husbands or partners, according to a 2020 survey by TD Ameritrade. And that number is likely to keep rising in the [...]
Borrow Money From Family and Friends and Keep Relationships Intact It’s so fun to watch a fellow entrepreneur win investment on Shark Tank to make her dream business into a reality. Likewise, every time a small startup is selected by the likes of Y Combinator or Techstars, hope rises for all founders. But actually, the [...]
Why Small Business Owners Should Consider a Line of Credit One of the most common challenges for new and small businesses is having sufficient cash on hand, or assets that can be easily converted to cash, to ensure you have both the working capital to invest in new opportunities and the flexibility to deal with [...]
Master These Financial Metrics to Succeed as a Business Owner or Leader Advice from the Atlanta Hawks’ VP of Financial Planning You get excited strategizing about ways to grow your business or planning next steps in your career and that’s a very good thing. You just need to bring that same level of passion to [...]
BHM Founders Features: Lisa Bailey, Founder of FeatureFirst Auto February signals the start of a month of celebration and reflection on the many contributions Black Americans have made to the United States and the world. Indeed, the man credited as the visionary for this annual celebration, Carter G. Woodson, hoped to educate young black [...]
Celebrate Black History Month . . . Four Ways Black Owners Can Defy the Odds and Drive Entrepreneurial Success You know in your gut what the research bears out — underrepresented founders have to work harder to be taken seriously, especially in areas where society and investors may not expect to see them. In a [...]
Honored to Team Up with AMEX for the Inaugural AMEX 100 for 100 Program Supporting Black Women Entrepreneurs I want to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to each of you for your support of Monica Motivates. We are so incredibly excited and honored to team up with the American Express (NYSE: AXP) “100 for 100” program. The [...]
Keynote Addresses from Top Executives and Entrepreneurs from Jordan Brand, BBVA Compass, Turner Construction, and Survey Monkey Over 50 percent of small businesses face immediate or near-term risk of shuttering permanently due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent analysis from the Brookings Institution. Minority-owned businesses are at an [...]
The 2X Challenge Has Mobilized $4.5 billion of Gender Lens Investments Since 2018 and Will Be Joining Us at the Third Annual Pivot to Your Purpose GSDC The Pivot to Your Purpose Global Supplier Diversity Conference aims to change the data for minority-owned businesses, one founder at a time. The third annual event [...]
