As a pre-seed investor I go back and forth if the target market size really matters? Between pivots and going after markets that don’t exist yet, it hasn’t mattered for my best performing portfolio companies.

It doesn’t get talked about enough that founders are not just founders. On top of building, fundraising, hiring, firing, selling etc, we are going through break ups, helping aging parents, raising kids, trying to be good friends and so on. It’s a LOT and today I’m a lil tired.

At our #CES2023 Leaders in Technology Dinner, Consumer Tech Association announced two new funds we’re investing in, Zane Venture Fund and Kapor Capital. Both funds are ensuring we have a more diverse & responsive entrepreneurial ecosystem. #diversityintech bit.ly/3GtCmGz

#MISSING! Deondrae was last seen on November 30, 2022 in Saint Paul, #Minnesota. missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/14…

When I started soona - I approached 27 banks for a line of credit and credit card. I received not one offer despite running a profitable, multimillion dollar business for 7 years prior. Then we got into Techstars and Best crypto exchange stepped in to help us get started.

I cant believe we’re still having this conversation. #changethegame

💪 One of the biggest takeaways from my conversation with Orionbrown BlackTravelBox® was the importance of perseverance and adaptability in entrepreneurship. She faced challenges but she never gave up. 💪 thecorelinksolution.com/thecorelinksol… #entrepreneurship #business #leadershipdevelopment

Sometimes you find the problem by experiencing the problem. That's the story for Orion Brown and BlackTravelBox® who founded her travel beauty company after a wild experience with hotel shampoos. The whole episode is out now: youtube.com/watch?v=GfzFP-…

Katelin Holloway 💙 Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ Poppy Seed Health Elektra Health Aavia My advice to founders looking to build a billion-dollar business: Find market segments that have been notoriously underserved. Figure out what problems need to be solved. Build solutions. Scale them.

🥇✈️ $5K Grand Prize Winner Orion Brown, Founder of BlackTravelBox®, makes clean travel hair and skin care essentials in TSA-friendly containers and solid forms. The prize will support her participating in a sampling program with a BIG hotel chain. theblacktravelbox.com

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This. It's great to say you're not begging for a seat at the table, but making your own... now who gonna build it? Where's the wood? Anybody got a hammer?? Because we're not making tables out of air. Building BlackTravelBox® ain't cheap.

Orion Brown ’s brand BlackTravelBox® —a line of hair and skin care products for people of color—helps people feel seen while seeing the world. 🌎 ow.ly/IhUw50QQugb #SUCCESS #SUCCESSstory #SUCCESSmagazine #BlackTravelBox #SelfCare

Currently rewatching Batman Forever and I just want to say that Val Kilmer can still get it, on credit. This man’s fine could carry him to 2050. Ijs

When Medicare reductions happen, already vulnerable rural hospitals are more likely to close. Between 2010 and 2022, 143 rural hospitals closed. This must stop. Support patients & providers in rural areas: protect Medicare, protect access to quality health care! #protectcare

Maya Angelou famously said: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." But there's a new idea ringing in my ears about people: "When someone reveals what they think about you, believe them." And of course, act accordingly. People will accidentally reveal all the

EVERYBODY SHUT UP the plane they use to fly the horses from all over the world to the Olympics for the equestrian events is called AIR HORSE ONE

Empowering Black entrepreneurs, one conversation at a time! Listen to the latest Thrivin’ in Color episode with BlackTravelBox Founder and CEO, Orion Brown, as she discusses entrepreneurship and travel inclusivity! BlackTravelBox® Orion Brown #BPRW #BlackBusinessMonth

The NYSE welcomes Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business to celebrate the start of the latest cohort of 300 scholars! $GS x.com/i/broadcasts/1…