Aniyia is the Executive Director of Black and Brown Founders, a San Francisco based nonprofit that assists black and latinx entrepreneurs with launching and growing a successful tech company. Not only does Aniyia’s nonprofit guide their clients through the challenging start-up phase, they also use benchmarks to push the new companies to reach revenue goals to sustain their business for a long future.
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My name is Aniyia Williams and I am the executive director of Black and Brown Founders. So we help Black and Latinx people launch and build tech companies. And really what our core idea behind that is that we know that these communities typically struggle with access to resources and to capital, really access to money in general. And money doesn't typically flow abundantly within our communities but there is a lot of opportunity in the tech industry and a lot of people have great ideas that could be solving problems in this space, so we help them understand tactically how they can launch and start to grow and build businesses when they're coming into it with modest resources. So as we are looking into what we're moving in the future, I'm actually really excited because what we're working on right now is actually launching an online platform that's going to have all of the kinds of information that we share with people when we bring them together in real life and doing more hands on training and coaching programs for the entrepreneurs that are gonna actually help them get from point A to point B, with our team of people assisting them during that journey and guiding them and being able to also assess what their strengths and weaknesses are, what areas they could learn more about that will help them build stronger businesses. They way that we're measuring that is by wanting to see entrepreneurs having repeatable revenue at a certain level and that number that we've said is our initial goal is, we want to see at least 10% of the businesses or excuse me, the entrepreneurs that we're serving in our community, making a least half a million dollars or more in annual revenue for their business and hiring jobs, like hiring at least three full time people. But as we look forward, we're actually right now in heavy planning and execution of this new initiative that we're launching, so we're kind of all hands on deck on that and that could look like product planning, it could look like shoring up operations around how we can support that as a team and still making sure that we're supporting our additional programs. And that's also writing grants and looking for funding for those things because we are a non-profit.
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