Diverse Tech Founders Media

Judith Lola and Elizabeth Bleggs have keen insights into how to bring a traditionally brick and mortar industry into the digital world. Efitter is tackling a huge problem in the fashion tech industry: waste from returns by customers who received the wrong fitting garment.

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Questions Answered:
1. Who are Efitter’s best customers?
2. What’s it like pitching your product while working a demanding day job (and having a family)?
3. Why did you bring on a co-founder to tackle this problem?

Connect with Judith and Elizabeth using the links below:

Website: https://www.efitterapp.com/

Twitter: www.twitter.com/efitter

Instagram: www.instagram.com/efitter

Christina Blacken, founder of The New Quo, provides practical advice for budding and experienced entrepreneurs to share their stories.

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Questions Answered:

1. What is your superpower (real and imagined)?
2. How much money should an entrepreneur have before they quit their job?
3. What would you do with $1,000,000 in funding right now?

Connect with Christina using the links below:

Website: https://www.thenewquo.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thenewquo

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thenewquo

Instagram: www.instagram.com/thenewquo

YouTube: www.youtube.com/thenewquo

Jovante Ham is co-founder and CEO of Melanoid Exchange, one of Houston bourgeoning startups and combines e-commerce with online booking "to help entrepreneurs of color connect with the world". They have an app on IOS and Android you can download today. Since growing up as a young kid in Fort Lauderdale, Jovante Ham has taken the lessons he learned growing up in a tough community to become founder and CEO of Melanoid Exchange, a.k.a. The Hood Scholar. This former aerospace engineer is tackling one of the largest target acquisition markets we have explored so far: E-commerce.

Listen to Jovante explain from his kitchen table how his business model is transforming small business owner's sales from New York City to Houston and ofcourse, back home in Broward County, FL.  Melanoid Exchange is one of Houston bourgeoning startups and combines e-commerce with online booking "to help entrepreneurs of color connect with the world". They have an app on IOS and Android you can download today.

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Questions Answered:
1. What would you do with $1,000,000 in funding right now?

2. Do you want to run a billion dollar company?

3. What’s the most valuable thing Melanoid Exchange does for its customers?

Connect with Jovante using the links below:

Website: https://melanoidexchange.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShopDownloadME

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melanoidexchange/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melanoidexchange/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/melanoidexchange

Alex Batdorf is the founder of Get Sh!t Done, an accelerator that helps women scale their business to $1M in Annual Recurring Revenue. After successfully exiting a tech startup shortly after graduating from the University of Chicago, Alex has been growing a community of founders around one idea: gaining traction.

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Questions Answered:
1. Can you compare NYC’s local startup scene to other emerging startup hubs in the U.S. (and around the world)?
2. What would you do with $1M+ in no strings attached funding right now?
3. Which artist most inspires your work?
4. How does being from Seattle give you an advantage in NYC’s burgeoning local startup scene?

Connect with Alex Batdorf using the links below:

Website: https://www.shegetsshitdone.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexBatdorf

Medium: https://medium.com/@alexbatdorf

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getshitdonequeen/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/getshitdone

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-batdorf-88a64512/

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Calvin Williams, Jr.: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvinwilliamsjr/
Freeman Capital: https://freemancapital.co/
App Launch Party Recap: https://newyork.justmy.com/post/viewpost/5-Things-I-Learned-Hosting-a-Startup-Showcase-for-Freeman-Capital/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnoPAuzpkU&t=4s

Kike Oniwinde: https://www.kikeoniwinde.com/
BYP Network: https://byp-network.com/

Guardian Articles:
1) https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2020/jan/06/linkedin-for-black-professionals-the-job-site-tackling-racial-bias
2) https://guardian.ng/guardian-woman/we-need-more-women-in-technology-the-tech-industry-is-the-future-kike-oniwinde-ceo-byp-network/

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YouTube Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGxnzueBdo
HBCUvc 31 under 31: https://blog.hbcu.vc/hbcuvcs-31-under-31-the-future-of-venture-capital-280f391f766f
Village Micro Fund: https://www.villagemicrofund.com/aboutus
Nathan Jones IV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-jones-67386366/

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