She bootstrapped her company after facing bias. Now she's helping other entrepreneurs do the same.

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She bootstrapped her company after facing bias. Now she's helping other entrepreneurs do the same. “I was tired of the sexism and racism I was experiencing,” said Melissa Bradley, co-founder of 1863 Ventures.

,” still managed to get her company off the ground. “I bootstrapped,” she recalled. “I kept my day job.”

“It became super-important for me, even after I became an angel investor, to help people pave their way forward and really tackle the obstacles that are going to come their way.”, which accelerates what she calls “new majority” entrepreneurs — women and people of color — from high growth potential to high growth. These days her focus is more on the latter because they are starting and maintaining their businesses faster and longer than their white peers, Bradley said.

. Men, on the other hand, were 60 percent more likely to get funding than women pitching the same business, it found., they don’t know how to create wealth, she said. There is also the perception of Black people’s inferiority, as well as education gaps, she added. First, do your homework — not just on your customers, but on the ecosystem you will see yourself in so that you are not blindsided.

 

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BREAKING: she didn’t experience either of those. She just was a terrible employee.

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