Dayton startup insurtech firm ConsumerOptix has won the 2021 Soin Award for Innovation.
ConsumerOptix was founded in August 2018 and is currently deploying its digital life insurance platform, Accelerate, nationwide. The Accelerate platform allows consumers and employees to determine their coverage needs and starts the purchasing process with a simple click of the mouse.
“Accelerate enables the insurance industry – both the carriers, the brokers and agents, to connect with consumers and employees in a digital, highly personalized way, to engage and educate, and meaningfully help them understand the life insurance value proposition,” said James O’Hara, CEO, Co- Founder & Chairman of ConsumerOptix. “The growth in life insurance applications is exploding, yet the industry is still lagging at personally connecting with consumers and employees and helping them understand the value of life insurance.”
O’Hara and his business partner, Brian Kipp, created Accelerate to fill a need they spotted in the often complex insurance industry. Many Americans do not have the proper amount of life insurance coverage, and Kipp and O’Hara believed the cumbersome process of purchasing life insurance was contributing to the problem.
“Most Americans don’t have the proper amount of insurance because they don’t know what to buy. At the end of the day, we felt the insurance industry was not doing a good job of connecting with consumers,” said Kipp.
To differentiate, Accelerate uses interactive video and digital personalization to determine each individual’s coverage need, then simplifies the purchasing process.
“We are on the path to become the Amazon of life insurance,” said O’Hara.
“Our goal is to take a process that is paper-driven and takes 30 to 45 days to complete and allow a person to purchase the right amount of life insurance with a mouse click in 10 to 12 minutes,” Kipp said.
Located in The Hub at the Dayton Arcade, ConsumerOptix has tapped into the technology-rich business landscape in downtown Dayton. Winning the Soin Award for Innovation will allow the start-up to expand and hire new talent in marketing or technology.
“It’s a bold statement, but I think about Dayton, Ohio in 2021 as the new Silicon Valley. Look at where we are today. We’re headquartered in the Arcade, a building that was just renovated after being dormant for 30 years. We’re surrounded by technology organizations and the collaboration between the Entrepreneurs’ Center and the University of Dayton, is bringing together, marrying, innovation and collaboration,” said O’Hara. “People in Dayton know the Soin brand, they know what it means to have been vetted and win this award, so that brings tremendous validation to our firm.”
The Soin Award for Innovation recipient is chosen each year by a panel of judges, made up of area business leaders and representatives from small business supporters. The judges pour through business plans, financial information and other submissions before choosing a top three, which then present their ideas to the panel.
ConsumerOptix’s win earns them a $25K prize and various marketing opportunities, thanks to support from Soin LLC, Cox Media Group Ohio and Sedgwick.
The Soin Award for Innovation began on the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce’s 100th anniversary in 2007 as a way to honor the businesses carrying on the innovative heritage of the Dayton region. The Raj Soin family has generously been the benefactor of the award since its inception.
Learn more about ConsumerOptix and Accelerate at consumeroptix.com.
Apply now for Early Risers: Startup Week Pitch Competition at Dayton’s premier entrepreneurship conference
Mark your calendars for the sixth annual Launch Dayton Startup Week on Sept. 13-16, 2021 at the Dayton Arcade!
Startup Week brings together the thinkers, dreamers, doers, makers and entrepreneurs with resource providers, mentors, and peers. All experiences are welcome. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or new to the community, there is space for you to join.
This year, Launch Dayton Startup Week will be a blended conference that will offer both in-person and virtual attendance options. Sessions will be held in the Arcade Rotunda and at The Hub Powered by PNC and streamed live online via webinar.
“Launch Dayton Startup Week inspires current and future entrepreneurs. It is the Dayton region’s premiere opportunity for entrepreneurs to connect and network with both resource providers and fellow founders,” said John Owen, Parallax Advanced Research program manager and Launch Dayton Startup Week organizer. “We’re curating speakers and workshops to spur tangible progress for local businesses and to celebrate the diversity of our startup community.”
On Monday, we’ll host a series of powerhouse speakers from the local entrepreneur community on our main stage in the Arcade Rotunda. The day will wrap with an entrepreneur resource fair + social and the annual Early Risers: Startup Week Pitch Competition, where ten area startups will compete for cash + services. Interested in pitching your company? Apply here!
Tuesday through Thursday, we’ll be offering industry-specific tracks that will enable attendees to dig deeper into relevant niche topics, as well as workshops where entrepreneurs can actively work on their businesses. These sessions will be offered in afternoons and evenings to accommodate founders who are still working day jobs as they get their companies up and running.
Want to support this year’s conference? Several sponsorship tiers are available. Contact KeAnna Daniels at [email protected] for more information.
Stay tuned to launchdayton.com/events/dayton-startup-week/ for the latest info as speakers are announced!
By Aliyah McLain
Black On Purpose formed to give young, Black professionals a safe space to network and be successful. The founders are currently working to develop Oak & Ivy Lounge, an elite, professional lounge + rooftop venue to be located in West Dayton.
Co-founder Aliyah Lovett recently graduated from the winter 2021 cohort of Early Risers Academy, a 10-week, business-building bootcamp powered by Launch Dayton partner Parallax Advanced Research. We caught up with Aliyah to learn more about her company. Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Aliyah: In 2019, my sister and I came up with an event called Brunch in the City. When the event occurred in January 2020, although things went well, it encouraged us to strive for our own event space.
The name Black On Purpose stemmed from my sister and I also being very supportive of Black business and Black culture when we came up with the idea.
Yes and no. I believe my mother indirectly instilled the entrepreneurship lifestyle into my sister and I, as she is an entrepreneur as well.
My mother has owned her own childcare center for 30 years, and after moving from in-home to a facility in 2016, I was able to assist her with managing the center which really intrigued me into the business aspect of running the center.
In 2019, my sister and I also created Sister Pies, a dessert company that stems from our own family recipes. We set up pop up shops and attend many city events.
Access to immediate funding has been one of the biggest barriers I have faced. We bought a commercial building, but now there is little to no funding to rehab this building in order to hold anticipated events.
My family and I are extremely passionate about West Dayton. This is where we were born and raised, and we want to restore our community.
I was a little intimidated the first few weeks due to all the virtual work because I am a very hands-on learner, but the support and experience is amazing!
We are very hard workers, and we are equipped with a professional background. However, we are just looking for local contacts and resources in order to enhance the presence of Black On Purpose.
Watch Aliyah’s Early Risers Academy pitch here to learn more, then connect with her at [email protected].
By Katie Aldridge
Have an adventure bucket-list, but not sure how to make them happen? U Experience is here to help.
U Experience focuses on bringing bucket-list adventures to life and developing related brand content and immersive experiences. It is an extension of experiential marketing company Events Done Right (EDR) Marketing which specializes in sport entertainment, festival settings, and face-to-face branding.
U Experience seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to travel and have once in a lifetime experiences. We recently caught up with co-founder Matt Dunn, a graduate of the winter 2021 cohort of Early Risers Academy, a 10-week business-building bootcamp powered by Launch Dayton partner Parallax Advanced Research. Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Matt: Professionally speaking, it started right out of college. It served a variety of companies and nonprofits, specifically around high-level events such as the Superbowl, Final Four, and the Olympics. I continued to press into different opportunities and worked as an independent contractor for fifteen years. Then, back in 2016, my wife and I started our own agency.
It derives from when I played baseball in college. I wasn’t able to move on professionally, but I continued to seek out opportunities where I could be around sports. I enjoyed being a part of those events, and I realized I could actually make money while doing something I enjoyed.
With respect to the U Experience brand, it was the belief that retirement is overly romanticized. More times than not, different variables naturally occur where retirement doesn’t look like what people envisioned. Younger generations would rather have an experience than a couple extra thousand dollars in their paycheck. I wanted to help people enjoy life in the process and to help them be a part of experiences that bring life to life moments.
I’ve always had the itch – call it blessing or a curse. I see something and my mind goes to the approach of, “How do you monetize it?” I can recall when I was 11 or 12 years old – I grew up in Michigan – I would mow lawns in the summer and shovel snow off roofs in the winter. In college, I had candy vending machines that primarily paid for my food. I would service the machines a couple times a month and would pay for everything in quarters.
I believe you should be as prepared as you can and should do your due diligence, but at a certain point, you have to say, “this is beyond my control, but what can I control?” Obviously, I can control my attitude, so let’s start with that and move forward. Another thing is that I’ve learned to be comfortable in my own skin. When you’re not being true to yourself, people recognize that. People respect you when you’re true to yourself.
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized the importance of persistence. I often parallel it to a game of poker. You’re playing with cards and sometimes you don’t have cards that are going to win. The reality is, you don’t have to win that round, you just have to live to see another day, so you would bet the minimum. If you’re in long enough, if you’re knowledgeable, you can make a calculated risk that when your opportunity comes, you can maybe go all in and reap the benefits from that. More so than that, it is the willingness to persevere even when all rejection is constant.
The part that I’ve really enjoyed the most is the opportunity to put food on the table for somebody else. A lot of the things we do are project-based. For a week or two or a month, we’ll hire 10 to 20 people for a project. When I’m putting my name on the check, it’s a humbling responsibility knowing that I ultimately helped their livelihood.
It was incredible. It really made me proud to be a part of Dayton and the small-business ecosystem as a whole. You realize that everybody is really champion each other, and everyone is cheering each other on to help each other win. Whether it is through an introduction to an individual or a resource, from a grand perspective, it makes you proud to be part of Dayton and to be part of the history of the native spirit that exists here.
U Experience will be releasing our remaining trips for 2021. They are open to the public, so if anyone would like to travel, we greatly welcome that! Also, if there are any brands that would like to be part of those experiences, any introductions would be greatly appreciated, as well.
Watch Matt’s Early Risers Academy pitch here, then connect with U Experience and EDR Marketing to book your experience!
By Katie Aldridge
Brandi Cargle is the founder of Yes, We Deliver!, an up-and-coming courier that focuses on delivering supplies to pediatric hospitals and laboratories within a 60-mile radius of the Dayton metropolitan area. Many couriers in the area do not focus on children’s hospitals and pediatrician offices, but Brandi’s goal is to prioritize their needs.
Brandi recently graduated from the winter 2021 cohort of Early Risers Academy, a 10-week business-building bootcamp powered by Launch Dayton partner Parallax Advanced Research. We caught up with her recently to learn more about her company. Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Brandi: I worked at a homeless shelter for eight years. One day, there was a situation with a baby. The mother was displaced, and her baby was very fussy. We had to send her to Dayton Children’s Hospital and had to wait about a week for lab results. She had Celiac disease. I have always wanted to help people. Knowing about how much pain that baby was going through, I wanted there to be a quicker way to assist because I knew there were no courier services that focused on children.
I wanted to help others. I was talking to my daughter’s friend’s mother, and she was telling me about truck driving and delivery services, and I was inspired. When I was thinking about local delivery, I thought “how can I help people and deliver?” I wanted to provide my services to companies and businesses that were in need. With pharmacies, parents are able to check the status of their children’s prescriptions online, but going to get it is a whole different story.
Yes. I always wanted to be my own boss. I always wanted to take care of my employees, which would then make my employees to take care of my customers. I want my employees and customers to feel a sense of community. I want to be a leader. If my employees want to be an entrepreneur, maybe I can lead them and help them with the steps to grow.
Resilience. I am a single parent and I have no idea which-way-and-how I’m going; however, I am determined. When my mind is set on something, I go for it. I might overdo myself sometimes and I’ll take a break from it, which is when I start to get discouraged because, as a mother of three, I have so much to do. After I get myself pulled back together, I’m back on top of what my goal is. That is perseverance.
I lacked experience. I started as a sole proprietor at the end of 2019, so I’m still like fresh meat out there! I will eventually partner with someone who has more experience with me, and she will be the cofounder.
I love being my own boss and being flexible. I am leaving a legacy for my children. If they choose not to continue with it, at least the business will be sold to someone who is interested. I love being able to help someone. Sometimes, not everything has to be paid for. I might be able to pay-it-forward to someone who may need something delivered for a health problem, or anything. I don’t have to charge them for it; I’ll still be able to help them.
It does! It all connects. That is my main goal. After going through my social work classes, working at the homeless shelter took a toll on me. I related to a lot of the clients there. I didn’t just do my job, I did more than my job to try and assist them the best way I could. That has just always been me. When people take care of me, I’ll take care of them.
Go to my website, www.yeswedeliverllc.com! I’m also on Instagram and Facebook. If there are any other resources or people who I should connect with, reach out! I’m looking for someone in IT, so I can have some help with my website.
I loved it. The tools they have for you are very useful for figuring out your vision. I had a hard time figuring out what to put in my pitch; they have a software you can use to help built that and your ideas. The information is very, very useful. You have so much help from the director, the partners, and the other cohort members. They are very supportive. It is a really good program, I am so glad that I found it.
Watch Brandi’s pitch here to learn more.
By Aliyah McLain
Ariane Brown has always had a love of graphic tees. Earlier this year, she decided to tap her management background and try her hand at running her own company, VIBEZ. She joined the winter 2021 cohort of Early Risers Academy, a 10-week business-building bootcamp powered by Launch Dayton partner Parallax Advanced Research, to get her business plan in order.
We recently caught up with Ariane to learn more about her company. Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Ariane: A lot of times I’ll look at T-shirts and I’d think about how I had said the same exact things before. I want to offer clothing that allows women to make a statement without actually having to say a word. VIBEZ is just the first of many entrepreneurial creations to come as I navigate my niche.
Yes. I just knew I wasn’t meant to work for anyone, it was always a feeling in my gut. VIBEZ is a way for me to get my feet wet to fulfill my goal of becoming a full-time entrepreneur.
I would say just trying to balance everything, I’m married, I have two daughters, and I work a full-time job.
I believe the program is very beneficial for an entrepreneur in any stage of launching their business. They will definitely provide you with the necessary skills.
I feel as if they have been a huge support already just with the networks and successes that I have already encountered. I also feel supported because of the relationships that I have witnessed the Launch Dayton community form with individuals in the course.
Watch Ariane’s Early Risers Academy pitch here to learn more.
The University of Dayton Flyer Pitch competition announced its 2021 winners April 26 in a ceremony hosted at The Hub Powered by PNC Bank at the Dayton Arcade, awarding $137,500 in cash prizes and support.
Illume Fit, a device that allows endurance athletes to send emergency messages to predefined emergency contacts while training, took first place in the startup track. The startup track is sponsored by PNC Bank and the Entrepreneurs’ Center. Illume Fit LLC was awarded a $20K cash prize and $25K of in-kind support through Ohio’s Entrepreneurial Services Provider (ESP) program.
Westside Makerspace, a West Dayton-based collaborative to spur creativity and new ventures, took first place in the new social venture track, powered by the Greater West Dayton Incubator (GWDI). Westside Makerspace founders took home a $10K cash prize.
“The social venture track was an ideal way to support social innovation for Greater West Dayton neighborhoods at the intersections of entrepreneurship and social justice,” said Karlos L. Marshall, GWDI manager. “Collectively across both tracks we awarded $65K to Black founders in the final round, including $35K to Just Cakin’ It, a mobile dessert lab founded by a Black woman from West Dayton.
“We expect this competition to be a catalyst for closing funding gaps in our community moving forward.”
Illume Fit LLC was selected from among more than 31 teams that pitched ideas during the competition, one of the largest at the college level. The team included Dayton community members Jack Randall, Anna Randall, Phillip Horn and Bryce McGuire.
“This year’s group of startup track teams included some of the most entrepreneurial founders we have had in the competition to date. The judges decision to fully fund Illume’s ask was based on the progress the team made over the last several months, and the overall opportunity,” said Vince Lewis, director of the university’s L. William Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. “We look forward to Illume adding to Flyer Pitch’s successful legacy, which includes 74 businesses and $24.1M in capital raised.”
The inspiration for Illume Fit LLC came when Jack, a two-time winner of Cincinnati’s Flying Pig Marathon, and a friend were running near UD’s campus, and his friend had a seizure. Fortunately they had a mobile phone with them; had this not been the case, the outcome could have been different. This inspired Jack to consider how endurance athletes can assure the right people will be notified if something unexpected happens during training.
The Illume team will use the funds to finalize the mechanical and electrical design, initiate software development and lay the foundation for future IP strategy.
“We are very thankful for the opportunity Flyer Pitch has provided our team,” Jack said. “The funds generated through the Flyer Pitch Competition will help in progressing the Illume mission by allowing us to get one step closer to launching our minimum viable product.”
Westside Makerspace provides accessible training, work and studio space; specialized tools and equipment; and micro-manufacturing services for West Dayton entrepreneurs. Team members Alvin Wilkerson, Cherrelle Gardner, Edwin Dirksen and Claude Nicol are UD graduates.
“We are excited to win the grand prize for the Flyer Pitch Social venture track. We started this project recognizing we live in a community full of talented people, and with these funds we are one step closer to providing the resources to help members of the community flourish,” Alvin said. “We believe everyone is a maker in some way and with the resources that the Makerspace will provide we hope to further highlight our community of creatives and entrepreneurs.”
Alvin said the group of three engineers and a project manager started the idea with just a space where they could share their tools and ideas. Inspired by how Dayton’s Gem City Market formed a community grocery story for West Dayton, Alvin and his partners expanded what they were doing with the help of Co-Op Dayton to share their space with others in the community.
The Flyer Pitch Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the University of Dayton’s L. William Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Greater West Dayton Incubator in partnership with PNC Bank and the Entrepreneurs’ Center. Now in its 15th year, Flyer Pitch awards more than $100K in cash prizes and more than $50K in in-kind prizes during the competition.
Sixty teams competed for prizes in this year’s Flyer Pitch competition. Finalists were awarded cash prizes and in-kind support. In addition to the winners, finalists include:
Startup Track
Social Venture Track
For more information on Flyer Pitch, email [email protected]. For more on the Greater West Dayton Incubator, email Karlos L. Marshall at [email protected].
Kroger and Drone Express, a division of TELEGRID Technologies, Inc., today announced a pilot to offer grocery delivery via autonomous drones, expanding the retailer’s seamless ecosystem and providing customers with anything, anytime, anywhere.
The woman-owned company is a client of Launch Dayton partner the Entrepreneurs’ Center. Drone Express recently established a facility in Monroe as a hub for manufacturing, testing, and piloting of autonomous drones for commercial package delivery. The division grew out of TELEGRID’s extensive experience with the U. S. Department of Defense.
“Kroger’s new drone delivery pilot is part of the evolution of our rapidly growing and innovative e-commerce business – which includes pickup, delivery, and ship and reached more than $10 billion in sales in 2020,” said Kroger’s Jody Kalmbach, group vice president of product experience. “The pilot reinforces the importance of flexibility and immediacy to customers, powered by modern, cost-effective, and efficient last-mile solutions. We’re excited to test drone delivery and gain insights that will inform expansion plans as well as future customer solutions.”
The pilot will offer customers unparalleled flexibility as Drone Express technology allows package delivery to the location of a customer’s smartphone not only to a street address, simply meaning a customer will be able to order delivery of picnic supplies to a park, sunscreen to the beach, or condiments to a backyard cookout, for instance.
Kroger is designing bundled product offerings ideal for meeting customer needs within the current weight limits for drone delivery, which is about five pounds. As an illustration, Kroger will offer a baby care bundle with wipes and formula, a child wellness bundle with over-the-counter medications and fluids, and a S’mores bundle with graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate. Using Kroger.com/DroneDelivery, customers can place orders and have eligible orders delivered within as little as 15 minutes.
“Autonomous drones have unlimited potential to improve everyday life, and our technology opens the way to safe, secure, environmentally friendly deliveries for Kroger customers,” said Beth Flippo, Chief Technology Officer, TELEGRID. “The possibilities for customers are endless – we can enable Kroger customers to send chicken soup to a sick friend or get fast delivery of olive oil if they run out while cooking dinner.”
Drone Express will commence test flights this week near the Kroger Marketplace in Centerville. The flights will be managed by licensed Drone Express pilots from an on-site trailer with additional off-site monitoring. Customer deliveries are scheduled to begin later this spring, and a second pilot is scheduled to launch this summer at a Ralphs store in California.
“The launch of the pilot in Centerville is the culmination of months of meticulous research and development by Kroger and Drone Express to better serve and meet the needs of our customers,” said Ethan Grob, Kroger’s director of last mile strategy and product. “We look forward to progressing from test flights to customer deliveries this spring, introducing one more way for our customers to experience Kroger.”
“Kroger and Drone Express made a great choice in piloting this program in Centerville — a community with a robust business network focused on progress and stability near the birthplace of aviation,” said Centerville Mayor Brooks Compton. “Families here have the power to transform grocery delivery around the nation and the globe. We look forward to placing our first order.”
The final installment of WYSO’s new web and radio series, Bouncing Back: Dayton Small Business Survive the Pandemic, features Mary Kay Smith, who runs the Winds Cafe and Winds Wine Cellar in Yellow Springs, and Audria Maki, founder of Reza’s in downtown Dayton.
Mary Kay has been a mentor to Audria, and the two have helped each other get through the pandemic, both as professionals and parents.
“Early on, you were probably the first real business that gave us a chance with our coffee. The day that you emailed me and said you were interested in carrying our coffee, I think I was like dancing around the room for an hour,” Audria recalled. “And then just over the last few years, being able to run things by you, especially things like employee things and customer things that you can’t talk about publicly, having somebody that has been there has been just really—I don’t know what I would have done without you, to be honest.”
“Well, I’m glad you feel that way. It’s mutual, that’s for certain. When I talk to you, I think of my younger self sometimes, and just that enthusiasm makes me feel like I’m enthused again,” Mary Kay said. “You know, you can lose that, especially during these times. So when I see you and your kids, it reminds me—I’m getting teared up now—of me and my kids being little and how hard it is to, you know, keep going sometimes.”
Listen to or read the full interview here.
The complete WYSO series features stories from nearly a dozen entrepreneurs within our Launch Dayton community.
The series was produced by Jess Mador from The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices in collaboration with Audrey Ingram and Launch Dayton, a network supporting entrepreneurs across the Dayton region. This final chapter was produced by Jason Reynolds. Both The Winds Cafe and Reza’s have been WYSO underwriting supporters.
By Katie Aldridge
Kimberly Stevenson is mom, dog-mom, soon-to-be author, and founder of both the nonprofit Supportive Place of Transition (The SPOT) and Golden Locket LTD, a company that provides academic and social services for people with disabilities in the transition period of their lives.
She is a graduate of the most recent winter 2021 cohort of Early Risers Academy, a free, 10-week business-building bootcamp powered by Launch Dayton partner Parallax Advanced Research.
We recently caught up with Kimberly to learn more about her company. Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Kimberly: My background is in education, and while working in that industry, I noticed that there was a lack of focus on transitional skills for people with disabilities, such as doing things in the community. I wanted to be that support for them, as far as teaching them how to be more independent and how to advocate for themselves and building their social and vocational skills.
I have been contracted to work as a Learning Provider for Learning Ohio. Due to the schooling situation last year during the pandemic, students with Individual Educational Plans didn’t have the support they needed and struggled with their learning. I felt this path, as an independent provider, would take me to where I want to go in the future
I want to make Golden Locket a full agency, so I can employ others to provide services as well. I plan on having a life enrichment program within Golden Locket that will focus on how to have a healthy relationship, whether it be a friendship or a romantic or sexual relationship.
I also just recently submitted my information to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) in hopes that Golden Locket can be a provider for the Jon Peterson Special Needs (JPSN) Scholarship.
I did not, but I knew there was something more I was supposed to do, and I wasn’t sure what it was. When I found this, and learned that I can expand on this business by doing the services I want, it felt right.
I bring the passion and the willingness to help. I bring the knowledge that I have from my previous experience as far as working with this group of individuals. I also think some of my experience as being a mother helps, and I think that helps more than a master’s degree. If you don’t have that nurturing quality about yourself, then you can’t provide a service that shows compassion, love and care. Those identities are also extremely important for my non-profit.
The SPOT provides transitional services, like Golden Locket. I will be providing services to individuals who are high-functioning on the autism spectrum. It will be like a social club. We will be focusing on building those social skills and ways to be independent through different workshops, such as cooking workshops or employment workshops. They will be able to come together and build relationships with others who are like them, with others who know their challenges.
I love being able to make people smile when they learn something that they struggled with. I love seeing them be so proud in that moment. I also do Homemaker Personal Care services, where we go out into the community, like going to the grocery store, to learn those social skills, so it’s very rewarding to see them build those independent skills. It never feels like work; it always feels like I’m helping and making a difference.
They go over and beyond top help you and make sure you understand everything about being an entrepreneur. The connections they bring from former Early Risers Academy cohorts and their experiences are so helpful. It was good to learn what each step of starting your own business consists of. They also help you know your customer base so you can be successful. I really enjoyed it; it was so worth it. I’ve already recommended it to two people!
I want to build relationships with the community as I grow. If you know anyone who could benefit from my services, please tell them about Golden Locket and send them my way!
Learn more about the Golden Locket and connect with Kimberly directly, here.
Wonder if Early Risers Academy would be a good fit for you? Learn more and apply here — there are two more cohorts running in 2021!
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