Navigating Barriers
Acknowledging and addressing systemic barriers Black business owners may face in entrepreneurship.
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NAVIGATING BARRIERS
Navigating systemic barriers to entrepreneurship
Join Jewel Burks Solomon, Head of Google Startups in the US and Managing Partner of Collab Capital, as she explores how to anticipate and recognize barriers and bias as an entrepreneur and identifies tactics to overcome them in the funding ecosystem and in contract procurement.
FEATURED CLIP
Lesson 1
Overcoming bias in the funding ecosystem.
FEATURED CLIP
Lesson 2
Navigating barriers in procurement.
FEATURED CLIP
Lesson 3
Building mental fortitude.
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Overcoming funding ecosystem bias.
By most accounts, raising funding for an early-stage startup or business venture is extremely difficult – especially for women and Black founders. In this article, Jewel Burks Solomon shares three ways in which she navigated the funding ecosystem for her startup and her venture fund, Collab Capital.
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About the workshop expert.
Jewel Burks Solomon
Head of Google Startups in the US
Jewel Burks Solomon is the Head of Google for Startups in the US. In this role, Jewel works to level the playing field for underrepresented startup founders and communities by connecting them with the best of Google’s products, people, and best practices. In addition to this role, Jewel also serves as Managing Partner at Collab Capital, an alternative investment fund she launched to close the funding gap for Black entrepreneurs.
Prior to leading Google for Startups and Collab Capital, Jewel was Founder/CEO of Partpic, a startup that was acquired by Amazon in 2016, which streamlined the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision technology. After the acquisition of Partpic, Jewel became a product leader at Amazon’s Visual Search and AR team. She led the integration of Partpic’s technology and launched it as Amazon PartFinder in 2018 to the over 150M users of Amazon’s Mobile Shopping App.
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