Today at Startup Yale:
Fireside Chat on Black Excellence + Food Entrepreneurship Expo
Fireside Chat on Black Excellence + Food Entrepreneurship Expo
11:45am-12:45pm
Yale School of Management, Room 2200
Fireside Chat on Black Excellence: Building Businesses for Your Community
Entrepreneurs from marginalized communities face a number of barriers in starting successful businesses. But what happens when entrepreneurs of color build businesses that purposefully serve their own community? Do these founders find additional obstacles in relation to seed funding and venture capital? What methods and approaches do these founders take in educating investors, who may or may not be from the same background, about a business idea that may be foreign to them? Join entrepreneurs Justin Gerrard (founder of Bae), KJ Miller (co-founder of Mented), and Jason Mowatt (founder of Trap Karaoke) as they discuss the trials, tribulations, and opportunities of culturally relevant entrepreneurship. This fireside chat is in partnership with the Afro-American Cultural Center and the Yale Black Business Alliance.
5:00–8:00pm
at the Landscape Lab, Yale West Campus (100 West Campus Drive, Orange, CT)
Food Entrepreneurship Expo
This installment of ¡beyond food! will feature student entrepreneurs working alongside local chefs to show their creative, innovative ideas through their food. We’ll be sampling some of the food products of Yale-based food startups as well as tasting the results of some riffing from chefs and students challenged to come up with something new delicious using the Landscape Lab campfire as their kitchen.
We’ll see you there!
—the Startup Yale team
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