Bootstrapping Bootcamp
Don’t waste precious time and money making all the classic mistakes as a first-time founder. Work with us to unlock your talents, build your prototype and launch in 10 weeks.
Bootstrapping Bootcamp is LIVE! It’s time to level up.
Black & Brown Founders is dedicated to teaching promising Black and Latinx entrepreneurs how to turn their most valuable skills and ideas into a profitable tech business.
We want to empower our community, so they can feel in control their lives, help their families, and build wealth and lasting legacies.
Bootstrapping Bootcamp is designed to be highly-actionable and get you receipts! We’ll help you assess your talents, build your first prototype, and validate your business idea. Get off the sidelines and walk it like you talk it!
The ‘camp is 100% virtual. Click here to get enrolled.
Our recipe for how to launch and get your first customers — for your current and FUTURE ideas
Our workbook and tools to help you launch a business by any means necessary
Access to video lessons to teach you key concepts, available on demand
Group coaching with been-there-done-that instructors who will be your thought partners for 10 weeks (a limited number of 1:1 coaching slots are also available)
Build a prototype that you can use to pitch and make sales
A wise and supportive community that will encourage you during the hard @$$ journey
Clarity, focus, and accountability to help achieve your daily goals
More confidence at each step, with every lesson, every week
Learn new ways to solve problems while making the most appropriate business choices for YOU
“That free stuff only gets you so far. I wanted to have a toolbox I could pick up and apply to any idea I want.”
CANIN CARLOS APRIORI-MENDOZA
DREAMFREELY
“You really helped me define my long-term game plan, and how to position it for the corporations I’m selling to.”
MICHELE HEYWARD
POSITIVEHIRE
“It was good, it was a lot. It helped me focus on what needs to happen to make money, instead of getting caught up [with other things].”
ALEXANDRA DODSON
BOOSTCHA
“It felt like a training ground for all of us to just ‘get it’… To just understand before adding in accountants, chief financial officers, or any of that.”
ANGEL B. HARDY
WAVES
ANIYIA L. WILLIAMS
Aniyia is the previous Executive Director of Black & Brown Founders (BFF), and has worked for and built startups in San Francisco since 2011. She founded BBF and fashion tech startup, Tinsel, which created the world's first audio necklace and earned Aniyia a patent for her electronic jewelry designs. As CEO of Tinsel, she raised nearly $500K from investors and successfully crowdfunded support for her invention. Aniyia is also co-founder of Zebras Unite, a movement pushing for a more sustainable culture around venture capital and startups.
Entrepreneurship runs in Aniyia's bloodーshe grew up in Philadelphia where her family owned and ran a hair school and three salons. She began working in the family business from the age of 5. Aniyia is committed to helping underestimated tech entrepreneurs, and serves as a partner and special advisor to Backstage Accelerator. She also previously served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Code2040, and has produced several events around the U.S. for Black and Latinx founders.
FRANCESCA ESCOTO
Insight comes from experience. Francesca has launched companies, led sales teams, and managed complex software projects for herself and many of her clients. Francesca also has certifications as a Professional Coach and Project Manager. She grew up launching and running Taekwondo schools in Dominican Republic with her parents. Francesca is an engineer whose first venture developed software to track the performance of aircraft engines... and grew too fast! She learned a lot.
Francesca has been tapped by MIT Media Lab, WPI, Cosmo For Latinas, SXSW, Code2040, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, NPR and others to share her wisdom on their their stages and pages. Francesca also has experience teaching in the traditional classroom and writing curriculum. She is Director of Education at Black & Brown Founders, committed to helping create transformative training programs for entrepreneurs of color.
This is for YOU if:
You are tired of pitching investors and coming up empty handed
You're unsure how to bootstrap successfully
You need your first prototype
You need clear brand values
You lack structure and discipline
You’re not clear on how to get from point A to point B
You don’t know when to pivot or iterate
You don’t know how to brand or market your idea
You don’t know how to get in front of customers
This is NOT for you if:
You are creating new drug treatments or spacecraft or sophisticated electronic devices (basically, any product that is highly regulated OR requires heavy equipment that you don’t have access to)
You are already selling close to $1M annually
You don’t think you need coaching or mentoring
You are committed to your current strategy or idea as-is and don’t want to change
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