Meet The Founders Of Black Women Talk Tech — Where They're Building The Next Billion-Dollar Business

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While Black women entrepreneurs are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America, SosaSpeaks, Lauren Washington and Regina Gwynn of BWTalkTech share insight on scaling and building their own billion-dollar business. 👏🏾 BWTTCON2020

, a virtual beauty coach app that gives free expert advice about haircare, products, and services for women of color. I met these lovely ladies a few years back, when we were all just starting our companies and going to different conferences to learn more about how to better scale and build.

Always try to pursue your ideas, because if you don't pursue them, someone else will. You'd be remiss not to bring your innovation and startup to life. Is that easy? Absolutely not. And is entrepreneurship for everyone? Absolutely not. But there is an amazing collection of resources and support systems across the country including incubators, investment funds, media companies, brands, sponsors, and corporations that all are very interested in seeing Black and brown founders win.

Have you had a mentor throughout your career who has helped guide you? What advice would you give to someone seeking mentorship?It's so important as you're building your business to have people you can ask questions to. For Black women, there just aren't a lot of women who are going where we'll all trying to go — we're all trying to create billion dollar businesses, and there are so few who are at that valuation.

 

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