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Get ahead in business.
With a growing library of original content, Magenta Edge is helping American small business owners navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.
With a foundational focus on minority-owned small businesses, Magenta Edge offers educational programming, real stories, and insights to help teach and inspire all entrepreneurs.
With a foundational focus on minority-owned small businesses, Magenta Edge offers educational programming, real stories, and insights to help teach and inspire all entrepreneurs.
SPOTLIGHT SERIES
How the founder of a pioneering Black woman-owned fashion magazine learned to balance work and life.
As both a mother and the editor-in-chief of Blanc Magazine, Teneshia Carr had to learn how to create balance between work and life. See how embracing new ways of working helped her grow both her family and her business.
SPOTLIGHT SERIES
This cultural arts gallery helps represent and heal communities caught between cultures.
Jake Prendez and Judy Avitia-Gonzalez are co-founders of Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery, the only Latinx/Chicanx gallery in the Northwest, where they’re creating a safe space for their community and marginalized artists to feel represented and understood.
SPOTLIGHT SERIES
How this gender-free footwear is helping people walk taller, more confidently, and more comfortably.
When NiK Kacy of NiK Kacy Footwear couldn’t find shoes they loved in a size that fit them, they decided to make it themself. See their story of perseverance despite discrimination and boldness in the face of bias on their journey to “walk their way.”
SPOTLIGHT SERIES
How Cafe Cà Phê overcame barriers to help bring culture and community to Kansas City.
Jacqueline (Jackie) Nguyen, founder/CEO of Cafe Cà Phê, is a first-generation Vietnamese American and former Broadway actress. See how Jackie overcame the cultural barriers of owning a Vietnamese coffee shop in the Midwest and continues to build up her business and her community.
More resources to help your business thrive.
6 ways to increase profitability to drive growth.
By understanding the cash inflows and outflows of your business, you may be able to retain earnings and reinvest in your company. Read these six tips that helped Melissa Butler bring The Lip Bar to profitability.
The ins and outs of accessing good money.
Getting the money your business needs isn’t easy, and making the wrong financial decisions can have adverse effects. Restauranteur Karl Franz Williams touches on the difference between good money and bad money.
The Magenta Edge educational content experience is an initiative to help small business owners get ahead.
These eight foundational themes cover the ins and outs of the small business journey and provide resources to help you set the pace for your success.
Marketing & Communications
Find out how to market your small business through smart targeting and storytelling.
Access & Resources
Insight on local and federal resources available to aspiring small business owners.
Profit, Scalability, & Growth
Learn about driving a business to profitability, scaling up, and identifying growth opportunities.
Navigating Barriers
Acknowledging and addressing systemic barriers black business owners may face in entrepreneurship.
Business
Credit
Insights on leveraging business credit to finance a small business and building business credit during Covid-19.
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