Vee Startup Founder

The business founder who launched to help the black women in corporate America by creating the impact that trickles down to her. Startup - @isdiversityreal

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

Gave up for a minute and now i'm back... attending info sessions for #techstars. learning more about the startup ecosystem and the business of accelerators and such.

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

@GNelsonCenter Is there a way to get feedback on applications that didn't advance? I think it would be so great and helpful!

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

I've finally come to terms that no one will give you a grant if your business is younger than 2years old and doesn't have 200K in revenue. So I will just use my baby business credit card and sell ebooks #babysteps

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

@sharpe_way i literally am going through this rn! this image is too accurate lol

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

Ultimately, I've realized that all these funds for black entrepreneurship are for ppl in business 2+ years and 200k in revenue. I thought it was for women who filed and need help setting up from step 1 = step: finished. #WOSB

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

At any rate, I will work on my vision plan for the business in order to finish my SWaM cert application. So much paperwork before I can get to creating lol. One woman shop... #WOSB

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

So i filled out a major banks form in order to get executive coaching. I've never heard back after saying she would reschedule our second meeting. Is this common or should I feel back? #WOSB

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

lawd.. my business email was dry for months. Come to find out, my DNS for it needed to be redirected. I must missed very imp emails.

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

" #alexa play "Bigger" by #beyonce" ... bc i wanna pretend it is true...

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

I don't get all this "support" for #black #Entrepreneurship. Is it just lip service? There are so many steps to even qualify for gov funding let alone the orgs/banks that want you in business for 2 years to even qualify for grants... I'm exhausted.

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

I even went and bought the gateway certification to prove i'm black thinking it would help my application for #amazon #blackbusinessaccelerator program.. is this program just smoking mirrors?

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

Is anyone getting into #amazon's #BBA program? Like.. I applied and i'm just waiting... I got the impression it would quickly start connecting black business owners quickly. two weeks later and nothing...

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

I have my #duns # and I’m so happy. The journey to complete my business structure continues! 🥳🥰

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

my challenge is to discover if I could be the community leader/impact advocate that I wish I had right here right now today. Through edu funding opps and making this a regular and welcoming conversation curated by us. We don’t need Karen to build a curriculum for us

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

And so I will continue building up my company getting the necessary business structure pieces in place so that I can combat severe panic attacks, insomnia, uncontrollable weeping & a deep hurt tht my family couldn’t help/support me.

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

I was upset that no one told me. Then I was upset that I couldn’t figure this out for myself sooner. Then I was upset that they were once rules+regulations put in place to make sure people like me couldn’t figure out how to find it themselves. And that realization hurt the most

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

But this morning it just hit me and I was upset because I didn’t know there were already institutions funded by the government to do this and I was mad that there weren’t more opportunities for me to learn about this and empower myself through entrepreneurship

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

After I registered my LLC with the state, I thought I wanted to build a company frm a place of anger
I started to think about how I would embarrass those who can for keeping us from growing.
3 weeks later I finally see what I need to build is greater community greater awareness

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

And I want to create something for those who don’t have a tribe to help them get there. Especially as we fighting through a pandemic and in massive isolation. I want to build a communityParticularly for those individuals.

[Vee Startup Founder @StartupVee]

I don’t want us to stay discouraged