Hispanic/Latin Entrepreneurs

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Glitter and Glam Spa

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Childcare Center Opens Doors and Young Minds

I opened my business and was running at full capacity within a couple of months. I was recognized by M&T Bank for my leadership during Hispanic Heritage Month and was invited to attend their leadership class. I also spoke on women’s empowerment at a Women’s Day event in Arlington County.

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Greether

Vanessa Karel, is a second-time Founder, Serial Entrepreneur, Storyteller, and Creative Producer. She was recently named as one of the 100 rising Latinx Startup founders to watch by Inicio Ventures and a Latinx to watch by Hispanic Executive through her work founding Greether; a travel startup that helps women travel safer. Most recently she was the most voted entrepreneur creating impact in Mexico by ASEM. Vanessa is also currently leading Girls in Tech, San Francisco as their Volunteer Manager Director. Vanessa’s goals are to empower women to help each other while discovering the world.. She

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Whimsy Do's

After graduating from Cosmetology school and working in the beauty industry for 4 years, a couple of years in another children's hair salon, I wanted to open my own salon. I took a child psychology course to better grasp how kids think and why they act the way they do. This helped me build my business model. I started planning everything in the middle of the pandemic during the shutdown. I needed all the usual start-up help such as; finding a location well away from the salon I was working at, negotiating a favorable lease, having the space prepared for my children's hair salon business

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Cinee.io

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Life Stages

Life Stages has been the synthesis of years of anecdotal and professional experiences, which were first sparked in my young adulthood. As a first and half generation immigrant and first-generation university graduate, I experienced trauma and stress without a lot of access to resources. In my mid-twenties, I decided to change and improve my well-being and life by leaving Chicago and traveling abroad for a year. One year turned into five, and throughout this time, I traveled in landscapes, cultures, and environments completely different from the ones I knew as an American-Mexican youth raised

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Dos Worlds

My search for Spanish vocabulary books tailored for toddlers proved to be underwhelming. The options were scarce, and the ones I stumbled upon were overly complex, filled with unrelated words, and predominantly authored by non-native speakers. Determined to find a better solution, I took a streamlined approach. I focused on creating short, themed books with fun illustrations that would captivate children's imaginations. In my view, the true objective of teaching Spanish to our children lies not solely in achieving fluency but rather in encouraging them to practice the language, enjoy the

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Bow Hammocks

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Arge, LLC

We see our success at the end of each job when the client shows us their appreciation for having quality, detail, and excellence in each of our tasks. Also, our accounting tells us financially how we are doing. Our revenues grew from $39,000 in 2021 to $132,000 in 2022; we are projecting $200,000 in 2023.

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Sunshine Flowers International

Our company has existed since 1986 and has been at the San Francisco Flower Mart since 2008. We are a mother-and-daughter-owned business servicing many loyal customers over the past 30 years. I am a native of Bogota, Columbia, and founded Sunshine Flowers International. In the mid-1980s, I moved to California and completed my degree in Business Administration from San Francisco State University, with an emphasis on importing and marketing. After that, I embarked on importing cut flowers from Colombia. I was the first female business owner and flower importer at the San Francisco Flower Mart

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