Equity in Entrepreneurship
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Equinent Spotlight: Meet Alan Fitt
It's time to start meeting our 2023 Spring cohort members! First up, meet Alan Fitt, working on a great reuse fashion project. Hi my name is Alan Fitt, I am originally from Trinidad & Tobago but lived in San Diego and moved to Tampa almost two years ago. I am a...
Celebrating G + g Salon!
Recquel Mack-Randles is a graduate of our Fall '22 Equity in Entrepreneurship program and has been working diligently ever since to identify the right location for her business, G + g Salon. This month, her dream came true on May 11, when she opened G + g Salon at...
Equinent Spotlight: Meet Ora Tanner, of Black Unicorn Education
Our Winter LaunchPad cohort recently wrapped up but we'll continue to showcase recent Equinent grads, as we gear up for our next cohort in April. Up next in our Spotlight: Black Unicorn Education! Check out founder Ora Tanner's story below. Black Unicorn EducationTM...
LaunchPad Cohort Heads to 1 Million Cups Tampa!
Our Equity in Entrepreneurship LaunchPad cohort is wrapping up their session with their capstone 1 Million Cups Tampa presentations. Here’s the schedule so far: 1/4/23 Martika...
Equinent Spotlight: Meet Recquel Mack-Randles, of G+g Salon
Next up in our Equity in Entrepreneurship Entrepreneur Spotlight: Recquel Mack-Randles, excited to be working on making her dream of independent business ownership come true. Here's Recquel's story: Hello! My name is Recquel Mack-Randles. I am a 31-year-old MOMpreneur...
Equinent Spotlight: Meet Martika Jones, of BUP
We've got nine amazing new entrepreneurs in our 2022 Fall Equity in Entrepreneurship session, who we'll be featuring here through January. First up in our Equinent Spotlight: Martika Jones, founder of BŪP®. I am a 27-year-old entrepreneur who went from an orchestral...
Meet Monica Smith of Sober Roots!
This year, we have new ways to support our Equity in Entrepreneurship participants. In addition to our Big Idea Brew Club, which wrapped up its first summer session in July, we also have expanded marketing support via the AMRoC Showcase Kiosk, and small business...
Process over Result
“Character without knowledge has more often led to success than knowledge without character.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero It could be stated that, “Success as an entrepreneur is partly determined not by how gracefully you fall, but how well your mindset is prepared to get...
Big Ideas from small beginnings. Big Idea Pitch & Big Idea Brew Club.
“Size matters, not.” - Jedi Master Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back. Vincent Van Gogh was a 19th century painter, known for his “Post-Impressionist” artwork. Though respected by his peers during his life, he only obtained worldwide fame after his death...
Equity in Entrepreneurship Mentor Spotlight: Meet Vanessa Ferguson, CIPT
We're shining our Equity in Entrepreneurship Mentor Spotlight on business law attorney, Vanessa Ferguson, whose work focuses on intellectual property and data protection. She is a Florida native and an alumna of the University of South Florida and the University...
Congratulations to our Fall ’21 Equity in Entrepreneurship Grads!
While we're a little late with this update, it is with great joy and hope for their future that we share our heartiest congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! It was a small group, but as diverse in scope and range as any of our previous classes. Not all were able...
Congratulations to our Equity in Entrepreneurship Spring ’21 Top Three Entrepreneurs!
Andrew Zides, of Ample Health We wrapped up our Spring Equity in Entrepreneurship session recognizing our top three Entrepreneurs, who each received additional seed funding of $3000, $2000 and $1000 in recognition of the exemplary work they did brining their business...
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