Founders Get Funds

Why are these essential business questions so hard to answer... like what? Who knows how to do this?! TheTagan explains how this questions help you achieve product-market-fit while expressing her hurdles with answering these questions. In the last episode of Season 2, you will discover the evolution of the FGF community through the questions "Who, Why & What". FGF's is further described through the words of an active memeber in the FGF community. Michaelangelo Hayes, founder of Valentino's Workshop, shares how he accessed his recent grant award from Barclays. Listen to discover how he could not have done it without his community. 

Valentino's Workshop: https://valentinosworkshop.com/

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TheTagan, a tech innovation strategist using data, marketing and technology to translate stories, hosts a special episode of FGF the podcast. Listen to the best snippets from 5 Get Funds Sessions. These conversations highlight the risks to funding and growing a business and a look at designing products for us by us. Thanks to our special guests for sharing their experiences with the FGF community: Christian Williams, Gloria Ware, Ron Stubblefield, Esq., Audra T. Long, MBA and Muhammed Hameed.  

For the full conversations watch on 

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Hailing from Atlanta, she entered the world of tech in Silicon Valley & L.A. Marjai Roberts lives at the intersection of entertainment and business development. After graduating with degrees in business management and journalism from the University of Georgia, her trail to tech began at Google. She continued her journey by working at social video apps such as musical.ly and joining the founding team at ZigZag. Now, she is ready to launch her her own venture. Marjai founded NuNotions, a central destination & social community for inclusive beauty & personal care product reviews. In this conversation, I catch her as she is developing her product and designing a go-to market strategy. Listen to Marjai’s story of building from the ground up in the world of thech right after this sponsored ad.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjairoberts/

Website: https://nunotions.com/

From ice cream to vaccines, LAMAR IoT Inc. is developing a smart container to track items as they make their way to the customer. The duo, CTO Michael Cutrer and CEO Brantly Fulton, are both Morehouse graduates that bonded over their passion for Internet Of Things (IoT) devices. Brantly has a background and interest in sustainable materials chemistry, flexible electronics, sustainability, and climate change. Michael has a background and interest in full stack software development, Arduino microcontroller systems, internet of things design, and machine learning.

In this episode, we discover what led them to developing a product that providse alerts and analytics on damages throughout the supply chain with IoT devices.

Connect with LAMAR IoT Inc.

https://remuscap.com/announcing-remus-first-ever-black-entrepreneur-in-residence/

https://blog.hbcu.vc/hbcuvc-announces-startup-awardees-from-the-summer-lab-fund-5cf8eb260608

https://laincubator.org/laci-welcomes-cohort-5-of-innovators/

Enjoy the last episode of 2020 with a baby that is more resilient than us all and an entrepreneurial dad! Su Sanni is a passionate social entrepreneur and tech executive from Brooklyn, New York. Most recently, he is known for founding Dollaride, a new mobility company for communities that are underserved by public transit. Dollaride's crowdfunding campaign on Republic raised over $400,000 from 1,500+ investors. Learn how to leverage and support your community in this episode. 

Website: Dollaride.com

Instagram: @thesusanni

Republic Campaign: https://republic.co/dollaride

The days of headaches and mistreating our hair are OVER. PuffCuff was founded by Ceata Lash. After embarking on her natural hair journey, she was unable to find an existing product. So, she invented and manufactured. Puff Cuff was imagined as a styling tool that would be sanitary, wouldn’t put stress on our hair, and that would both be durable and affordable. Today we have a variety of products suitable for men and women of all ethnicities and textures.

Get inspired by Ceata’s journey in entrepreneurship. Check out the PuffCuff here: https://thepuffcuff.com/

Republic Campaign: https://republic.co/puffcuff

Hear stories shared with a sweet twang from Shirley Massie, my nana. Have you ever understood innovation for your community like this? HECKY NAW.

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Let’s get healthy and happy! Listen to Isoke Luqman to unpack the mindset needed to start your own garden.

As an educational consultant at Garden for Life. She provides raised bed garden installation services and garden education to create sustainable food networks serving food deserts. She continues to support health and wellness through an e-commerce shop, Garden VarieTEA, offering simple to complex blends for you to immerse yourself in a tea experience. 

Let’s hear what keeps Isoke inspired to heal and educate her community now.

Visit her site: http://www.gardenvarietea.com/

Ras Asan is a Morehouse brother or should I say BREAUX. He is a 30 Under 30 founder, award winning copywriter and the founder of BREAUX Capital. BREAUX Capital is the world's first fintech startup and financial health platform for Black Men. It is inspired in reverence by organizations that empower women of color to build wealth & culture.

BREAUX Capital leverages a combination of software, research from UPenn, MIT, Harvard and Stanford, and a membership community to enhance the short and long-term financial health of its members. This is an innovative solution to creating a better relationship between finance and the Black community. Get the full story in this very powerful conversation right now.

Website: https://www.breauxcapital.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolugbenga/

The Carmen J. is a media mogul, designer and founder. She leads Of A Higher Frequency to create custom apparel and impactful initiatives in the Atlanta community. Get the details on the Higher Purpose 2020 initiative, a new fall collection and other creative projects coming from the multi-talented entrepreneur in this episode. She shares her inspiring journey to starting a business that followed a period of unemployment after college, trying jobs to see what she liked and finally letting go of fear.

Listen to the full episode here. For more from Of A Higher Frequency watch The Carmen J.’s Founders Get Fresh episode here —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gevQUM7to64&t=7s

Website: https://ofahigherfrequency.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-a-jackson/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/carm_x

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