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Providing Black and Latinx Founders with Resources and Community to Build Successful Companies without Relying on Venture Capital

Black & Brown Founders gives entrepreneurs knowledge, tools and cutting-edge tactics to launch startups without relying on venture capital.

We believe that anyone with a great solution to an important problem and the determination to bring to it to life should have the opportunity to build it.

Black & Brown Founders has produced seven events in four cities which provided actionable information about building tech companies, gathered interdisciplinary stakeholders to ideate on ecosystem solutions, and refined effective ways to create connection among siloed tech founders of color.

We’ve learned that bootstrapping with limited resources is most effective when a venture is built from the founder's unique knowledge and talents. We've developed a process to help founders assess those talents and put them to work solving problems for their communities.

Note: The above description came from the organization's About page.

In The News

Black & Brown Founders Project promotes entrepreneurship, Philadelphia Tribune, October 10, 2017.

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 {{toplink|url=http://blackandbrownfounders.com|name=blackandbrownfounders.com}}<blockquote>''Providing Black and Latinx Founders with Resources and Community to Build Successful Companies without Relying on Venture Capital''</blockquote>
-'''Black & Brown Founders''' was created to change the notion that venture capital funding is required to build a successful company, especially in tech.
+Black & Brown Founders gives entrepreneurs knowledge, tools and cutting-edge tactics to launch startups without relying on venture capital.
-We know that “bootstrapping” doesn’t look the same for black and brown founders as it does for others. Money doesn’t flow abundantly into our communities. We don’t typically have people around us to chip into a “friends and family round”, we don’t usually have access to investor networks, and we are often underestimated by investors because we don’t fit the pattern of what they are used to seeing.
+We believe that anyone with a great solution to an important problem and the determination to bring to it to life should have the opportunity to build it.
-Driven to take a different approach, BBFP was born. The goal is '''to share knowledge and resources within our community''', which is frequently ignored by the tech ecosystem, yet known for its ingenuity and resilience.
+Black & Brown Founders has produced seven events in four cities which provided actionable information about building tech companies, gathered interdisciplinary stakeholders to ideate on ecosystem solutions, and refined effective ways to create connection among siloed tech founders of color.
+We’ve learned that bootstrapping with limited resources is most effective when a venture is built from the founder's unique knowledge and talents. We've developed a process to help founders assess those talents and put them to work solving problems for their communities.
 ''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above description came from the organization's [http://blackandbrownfounders.com/about/ About] page.