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17 Jun

Meet 20 Female Entrepreneurs Awarded $25,000 Each by Botox

Botox Cosmetic is betting big on small businesses. It has united with IFundWomen to award 20 female entrepreneurs across the sweetness, fashion, food and entertainment industries $25,000 each in funding, aiming to assist close “the boldness gap.” “There may be a niche for girls entrepreneurs; it’s more of a challenge for them to get funding, and so this initiative was a possibility for us to make a difference there,” said Nicole Katz, vp of world communications and public relations at AbbVie, parent company of Allergan Aesthetics, which develops Botox Cosmetic. In line with Pitchbook, in 2022, firms founded solely by women garnered only 2 percent of enterprise capital within the U.S. Along with receiving funding, grant recipients might be immersed...
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20 May

Founders of Uncle Bud’s, Nudestix on being Gen Z

Generation Z is a holy grail of consumer cohorts, however it also counts quite a few young dynamic entrepreneurs. Garrett Greller, a cofounder of Uncle Bud’s Hemp, was 19 years old when he began his company. He had been diagnosed with arthritis in his knees, hips, back and ankles when he was 14, and tried traditional medicine to assist with that, but they gave bad reactions. “That was once I went on a mission to create something that was more natural, effective and reasonably priced than what I used to be using,” he said. “I contacted an FDA-registered lab because I learned all concerning the easy, amazing ingredient CBD and hemp from a documentary. I wrote up a four-page paper, put it...
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25 Mar

Michael and Alex Toccin, From Influencers to Entrepreneurs Nurturing

Toccin is a small fashion company with a giant appetite for growth at a rapid clip. “On this business, you’ve got to have traction. You never know what’s going to occur,” said Michael Toccin, cofounder and co-owner of Toccin Apparel Holdings LLC, along along with his wife Alex Toccin. They’re 50/50 partners. Launched in 2019, the Toccin women’s fashion brand, which focuses on classic knitwear, dresses, jackets and “essential” styles, currently sells at Saks, Nordstrom, Bergdorf Goodman, Rent the Runway, on the Toccin website and at other specialty stores. With a mean price point of $495, the highest category is dresses, with bestsellers including tie-front silhouettes that accentuate a lady’s waist, in addition to cheetah prints and dresses with long fringe. Just...
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8 Sep

For Black Women Entrepreneurs, Self-Care Is Not A Luxury;

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