One question that I was asked last night
that I had a piece start this morning

as no one knew.

At the end of the day
what are we going for.

And.

While you know a little bit more
about what would your proof pay for

your post or the thing that I
want to emphasize to ground.

The takeaways from today.

Are two things basically one we
will have created it a network or

say caught short but

to hopefully we would have
brainstormed ourselves

into a design that we can
go forward with already.

As I was saying last night one of
the things that I know is that with work

is as complex as the work that we're
trying to do there is no way that

any one person organization can do
everything it needs to be done so

it really begs for collaboration and
that's what we're going to try to do but

it also begs for an evidence based
approach and experience based approach and

a collective entity that says
these are the pass that we find

by which we can connect ourselves and
it grants the total price everybody so

I think end of the day we want
recommendations we want suggestions we

want I did is we want that the casing gaps

that we can on this court is try to.

Crack together in.

The sort of design that
was a permit our pilot

that we were running in the summer
in August September remember we

get kind of point of synergy that works so
that week.

Can.

Put together something that people would
know that you're not wasting your time.

So people are doing interesting
reading on times of places.

We want to connect the dots in a way
that Vance's the whole project now if

you look in your fog or you can see
that we have made the first step toward.

Developing that landscape and
that we have a student

actually who Poti gather the list
of organisations that have come

forward as people who are already doing
face in the area obviously this is not all

it is just a first stab but we want to be
crystal clear about who's doing what where

what kinds of resources are available
what kinds of experiences are being.

Or what kinds of stakes are we putting in
the ground how are we connecting women who

are interested in doing this kind of work
Alison they maximize their talents and

find their task is to do you need to do so
this is step one.

If you want us to that's based on some
group that you know let us know and

we are creating a database fluid
which we will collect with us.

So that's why we also
have some genuine who

has agreed to do our first country.

Evidence gathering and so she will be able
to talk about that a little bit later

as if you have information
to share about how we

can really be why clear
about what we know and

what we don't know so that we don't
spend our times replicating days or

doing things that are really.

Part of the passport we don't want.

Busywork we won.

So with that said out I hope that
the day goes exactly as we play and

which means that we don't have a way of
predicting what's going to come out what

we predict is that really amazing things
will come out and we won't do that but

there are people here this morning
who were not here last night so

I'm going to ask you to
introduce yourselves.

And very short fashion because we
have a lot of folks and I don't want

to spend all of our time in introductions
but we need to know who we are and

we have to name tags Esther for just.

OK.

OK so I will look we'll get those passed
around so we can put the name tags on

you know the other thing that ours have to
say is that my brain is full I remember

nothing and so it helps if I have
a name tag to remind me of things and

I know I remember faces
I remember no names so

do get your name tag on however you
want to be referenced across the day so

that we have some way of respect
each other rather than hey you and

me OK So Karen we start to now
why don't we start with you.

Name place.

Short.

All the way from Ethiopia and
I want to try to make it work while.

I'm a man do not want to come Hello I
was based para Clark Atlanta a very.

The last June back home I own
the business a construction company and

also I'm a partner and a director for
a multinational I think

turnkey solution company
called the can maestro.

Morning My name is Cal sailors I work
with Coca-Cola step process streets I'm

just from here in Atlanta and

I'm a part of that women's laying
business resource for you.

I'm from China little C.E.O.
of quantum leaps which is the global

summer reader for women soccer for
inertia and we mapped the ecosystem for

women some dripper nerd shop
in various countries and

also focus on innovation with women
owned firms I live in Vietnam

my organization is U.S. headquartered.

Hi My name is Tice Morgan and I work for
Coca-Cola in strategy planning and

development food service so right around
the corner I'm also part of women's lib

which is a business resource group for
generating empowerment and

leadership and women with an optimization.

For morning to Mr Vice President of
Marketing development for I.B.M. and

I'm responsible for

marketing to businesses that are owned by
asians blacks Hispanics Native American

and women American influence businesses
around the world to ensure they understand

how to leverage technology to accelerate
the growth of the businesses.

That.
Morning on the Sunday live blog

in addition to owning white oak
kitchen and cocktails and mags.

I'm a C.P.A. receive my M.B.A.
from Cal states that come and

go I have done a lot of business
planning and with my work.

Our way a lot of is this plan
working with not only women

international groups coming to Atlanta so
I hope you'll be.

Good morning my name is just I'm
sure I'm with Polish capital or

an early stage Excel or.

An investor program launching a three
month Excel reader programs for

a wide range of different verticals
all across the world we support

under-represented demographics and
entrepreneurship by helping them address

the inherent bias sees in me and
for capital as they stand.

Having the entrepreneurs actually vote on
each other as to where capital goes once

they've come through our program we've
supported four hundred fifty entrepreneurs

over the past five years and are anxious
to continue more of our work in Africa.

Good morning I'm sure you can con
I've worked all over the world

at all levels of government business and
civil society I've worked

extensively with women
entrepreneurs in Afghanistan.

And I'm looking forward
to participating today.

Good morning I'm Andrea Ayres and
I'm I'm with Coca-Cola on the food service

strategy and development team and
also part of women think.

Of my name I mean is Cujo coming from
South Africa representing the grass

on the shelf trust we have
a program under the women's rights

unit which program my major rough.

Network of African business women and
what we do is we try and we try and

get women associations to come together to
take up advocacy issues and at the same

time we have been to the entrepreneurs the
promise the entrepreneurs within them and

the capacity to go especially
under represented industries and

women not see.

A very good morning.

Jim it's about.

I decided and I'm happy.

And I.

Ended up with a group and
Company which is consistency.

And mind.

YOU THANK YOU.

Good morning when I was
a Richard sworn I run the U.C.

Berkeley program on innovations in
entrepreneurial finance which is

a really fancy way of saying growth
on the outer edge of finance

I also wrote The World Bank report
on the potential of problem for

developing economies also technical
advisor to the Bill Gates Foundation and

also an advisor to the Rockefeller
Foundation Aspen Institute for program and

had my first trip to Africa in August and
working for you so

I'm new to Africa refuse but
I've been dealing with access to capital

entrepreneurship exhilaration for many
years and also different or August of one.

Of them is Harper McConnell in the
Eastern Congo Initiative I live in D.C.

but just came back from up a little
over eight years living in Congo we work

with smallholder farmers primarily in
coffee and cocoa and several other export

cops ensuring that we're building small
businesses with access that finance and

access to premium markets.

That morning I'm Santeria Sampson I'm
a founder Bob paternity and

as I said last evening when I introduced
myself what we're quickly finding out is

that educational advocacy is so
important so

as a woman tending to this and then to
determine some of the thing that we need

so we could have that
wisdom information and

education passed along to young people
these are two of my young people over here

my daughter Princess I told her to come
I want you to listen to the women.

On be inspired and determine what you
can do is your part in the world my

nine year old his name is
lively it's his birthday today.

Thank you thank you.

But as a male I want him to start
early to be able to listen and

respect women listen to women and
determine some of the needs.

Would you.

Write me Sampson and I.

Started for high growth companies so
two of them and

my wife and I know some started
a small angel for one and we've also.

It was three African heads of state and
government and that was our connection to

maybe originally as we'll sit opposite for

most of the latest will be making a nomics
which launched the platform to deal with.

Poverty in the wealth gap particular
in America announced expanded

that evolve into a platform which
then we lost the opportunity of

which today is a multi campus we
have two campuses here in Atlanta

where we do co-working career celebration.

And some incubation of the of
the of the companies that are there

fifteen years ago.

I was probably one of the only
black tech cult founders

in Atlanta that actually had received
funding the Iraq people have started

businesses with those who have actually
gone through the pipeline receive funding.

Today when we count how many black and
female black males and black B.

males today in Atlanta that have
received some form of capital or

probably less than ten in jail is one of
them and we can count the rest I'm so

in a fifteen year period there really
hasn't been an increase in the pipeline

it's also an opportunity that we want
to progress how this conversation about

of the burst of inclusive pipeline
can actually be actually created and

materialize and
that's why Woodside parter.

Good morning everyone my
name is Monica McCoy and

I'm also with the Coca-Cola Company I'm
doing two jobs right now my

daytime job is working with them
national food service marketing

as a senior manager channel claim in
developing that my final job is working

with women flank where we
are planning a great conference for

the year to address issues that women
are facing in the workplace not just from

a domestic perspective but
from an international perspective also so

we'll be addressing them partnering with
our five by twenty initially have with

the International Women's Forum and with
our Global Women's Initiative So we have

a lot of great things on coming down the
pipeline and we're hoping to be able to

partner with you all in August some
this great initiative that we have.

Good morning my name is Terry McAuliffe I
wait for time tech entrepreneur

with successful exits fifteen
years ago co-founded Idea Village

in New Orleans which was one of the
originally baiters mix of the Raiders and

still going strong today I have
a company that works with incubators and

accelerators and economic development
I am gladly a senior advisor and

mentor at opportunity hope I think
there's real impact going on and

a real need for what's going on in
that community I sit on the board for

a company the village capital made
possible with their initial fifty thousand

dollar investment in four years later
that company is doing exceedingly well

I like long walks in the park and
big work and with entrepreneurs.

Good morning I'm content the car from
the Coca-Cola Company is the way I

work in a global ID project management
office dealing with our governance and

our solution delivery process bridging the
gap with our technology across the we're

all within integration also member
of women's link working on.

Work life in gauging man and a member
of a network of executive women which

focuses on the advancement of development
of women in the retail consumer goods and

services space.

Good morning everyone I'm Pamela and
I do work for Coca-Cola and

their public affairs and Communications
Group my job at Coke is working with women

claimed I'm the chair of
the Corporate Education Committee.

I'm a name is John Senator I'm part
of the I'm your an accelerator and

crude school which is now the largest
go to school in the U.S..

So that's my start of the other
startup is married ten years and

I have two beautiful girls.

Eight and four I'm excited to be here
because software is eating the world and

really changing the world fundamentally
and I think there are a lot of opportunity

to bring code education not just
of course you have the U.S.

but internationally in
really cost effective ways.

Thank you good morning my name
is Michael that are him and

I'm the president of Ghana and I thank you
look coming it's really exciting to be

here we've tracked connect for you the
past week at the events I mean Atlanta and

I'm really excited to be in this group
because as we focus on half of the moon

African women also have half of
the pollution so we focus on business they

think to myself and
also how to build that women in Africa.

When economy I'm excited.

Good morning my name is
Adrian Johnson retired after twenty

five years with the Coca-Cola company and
my husband and I well my husband's retired

also from Concord College and we started
our two businesses one is a demand for

resale boutique in the bucket we have
a consignment store but the most important

one is we haven't been equal connections
were we do micro funding of programs for

African women we started working with
a local bottle in Liberia and we

created we started with one hundred women
we put them in business Coca-Cola came.

I'm in over the top and they brought
in part of the job at twenty so

that number is gone from one
hundred women to five hundred women

in the year I think it's it we're
going to have fifteen hundred.

We also do training and mentoring for
the women we also work in Ghana and

South Africa and I would just like to say
I think this is a fantastic group and

it's amazing to be in the Rome and
I didn't want to not also share this and

so I've brought my daughter limiter she's
on spring break from universal mission and

she's here to volunteer raising and
a look.

And she is graduating from for use in
three years she graduates in May and

in the National Relations and she just got
accepted University College of London but

she's on her way to Ghana so she'll be
there this summer working on women's

empowerment programs with us thank you.

So you have a tough act to follow.

Good morning everyone my name is Theo
Washington met I'm the guy right there for

the city of Atlanta as well as
entrepreneurship initiative we are newly

launched an initiative that provide
incubate or space for women entrepreneurs

based here in Atlanta to grow and advance
their businesses in our incubator for

a fifteen month period to
completely no cost to them and

have access to a collage of resources and
opportunities and then to our ship and

peer to peer engagement and that incubate
our space while simultaneously offering

community outreach and navigational
opportunities an entrepreneurial ecosystem

for emerging entrepreneurs young
entrepreneurs like princess then write

me over there are future entrepreneurs
will be providing some opportunities for

growth in that that space as well so very
happy to be a part of this forum since our

blueprint is extremely young you're really
looking to supplement forty five that with

the knowledge base of all of you
here in this room so thank you.

I must file a claim or I've been there.

With U.B.S. for about twenty six years
there and recently took on the role

of being that the rector of ours
global supply diversity we work a lot

with small minority and
women own enterprises.

Mentor them and make sure that they
have an opportunity to participate

in a lot of our sourcing
opportunities I also sit at

the chair in our Asian American business
resource group and very much involved with

that women leadership very much like
the women's link in that Coca-Cola.

Vine and I'm tapping right author
with a cup of call a company and

author with women family
I currently work and

community affairs and
also with the foundation that.

OK thing.

Case unity as well as women's
groups that will soon be

retired like me.

Good morning everyone the money step fairy
I run a thing called the porter group or

the venture capital firm and the conscious
Venture Lab which is an exhilarating for

conscious entrepreneurship outside of
Baltimore I think the reason that I'm

here are probably two main reasons one is
I have three sisters are all smarter than

me so I know that that has something to
do one is entrepreneurship thing I think

the other thing is when before you got to
the venture space we started out hence fun

around the same ideas so
thinking about what's one where the future

is of the future value learn to be and
we believe that the one of the future

are not going to be those companies that
are focused myopically on shareholders but

they're going to the ones that focus on
the nature of their relationships and

that which from what we brought women is
about eight hundred million dollars and

it was really research based and

we did lots of research on stakeholder
relationships and one thing that we found.

That we can expect a fine.

Result when a correlation between
the person on the board performance and

the strongest correlations between of the
number one on the board performance and

we spent a lot of time thinking about
that and put lots of money behind it so

I think that's one reason
that when we hear that.

I always like that lots of money
part we're always looking for money.

I'm going to change things up and stamps I
can see everybody I know who are covering

entrepreneurs My name is Jennifer and I
John on calls me John I've done seven web

and mobile technology startups and
I'm now currently living a life of service

to other entrepreneurs and I I'm here
in Atlanta I do that in two ways I'm

the assistant director of education at
A.T.C. which is the technology business

incubator affiliated with George PAC We've
been around for thirty five years and

we're currently helping about eight
hundred seventy entrepreneurs through our

educational programs there I am also
the founder of start up checks which was

a labor of love passion on the Internet
going on seven years this month.

We have thirty five hundred members it's
really a community based organization for

female founders kind of with
the specialists in tech and media and

product is companies that
have the ability to scale and

grow so
now it's also been a while with that.

We are currently around thirty five
hundred members across the globe who

are operating in eight cities
today in the United States and

with the goal of kind of two hundred
cities across the globe in about three

years.

My name is in do you mean that an
intrapreneur base then they go something

Kuria I'm the founder of labor for
a car which is a leadership development

organisation for young people and business
owners who had written ten books on

a range of issues succession governance
and thinks I'm also the co-founder of

a school who does in our group
processing company resources.

Would you some Commons supply the local
market spices complementary food and

a partner with a helicopter somehow
there's a consulting firm and

we have a P fund focused
on I believe this month

in the major It's one
hundred million dollar fund.

Lastly I want to mention that I'm a senior
fellow at the Kennedy School of Government

at Harvard where working on a book on
scaling social innovation in Africa

as I heard a lot of people talking about
the in computers and other ships and

things like that I would love to talk with
you because I'm in the heart of doing my

research nonresident problem so while I'm
here I try to grab as much information as

possible so I look forward
to engaging with all of you.

The morning I'm Jennifer share I'm
with the metro Atlanta Chamber and

as I am in the innovation entrepreneurship
division and we're focused on engaging our

business community to create
an ecosystem where innovators and

entrepreneurs can thrive and obviously who
could quote Coca-Cola Company is a great

example of what corporations can
do to stimulate the ecosystem.

Thank you Jennifer I don't
have a model my presidency

of the metro Atlanta Chamber and Jennifer.

Being I won't describe sort of why we're
here and what we are hoping to learn and

accomplish and I guess I would
add a couple more things we

also have a Chamber of Commerce
you may think that sounds just

like we're trying to help
only maybe big businesses or.

Businesses that are you know wiped out and
you know what in our membership

I mean why isn't there some a huge gap and

this metro area there's
way although about they.

End up going to lack of mobility.

Of income mobility hair and they are gaps
all around and hearing these stats

today make me realize that there are still
a lot more I want to do in this particular

area for that and just one of
them now that I have had the up.

Indeed to travel to a few countries in
Africa when I was the C.E.O. of Susan G.

Komen for the Cure time we had the
opportunity to work when female doctors.

Themselves in extraordinary entrepreneurs
because they definitely had to do

more than just take your patients
if they didn't really turn it into

a business an outrage it wasn't
going to work for the women there so

I applaud I want to you who are doing
that kind of work thank you for

having us.

Both how everyone I'm sure you
spew I am here with the Coca-Cola

company I am the board member leading our
community service our community leadership

an issue that within women flamed out is
this resource group that has over five

thousand members across the country and
around the world and in addition to that.

If you look in your brochure or
your binder of the them thing in marketing

manager and I was when I registered for
the summit and I've been promoted and

I now work in our overall company strategy
innovation and portfolio development

group for all the shopper marketing
with Coca-Cola North America.

Within both of those I'm always looking at
how this is going to affect the world and

how will what we do with the women
including with inclusive of that world

that's part of why I work so

much with women's link in addition
to that I'm really passionate about

making a positive impact with
this time I have here on Earth.

So I also serve as a board member
to a startup that is focused on

changing what your children
listen to every day rap music and

making it positive though you
have any questions around any

of those I'd love to connect them excited
about what we're going to do here that.

My name is Karen most
I'm a volunteer student

of Arc You know our city
which is you don't know as.

A mater so.

Of course I'm involved when I'm
standing students in my minors.

Hundreds of our professors and
that's why I'm here with you

today.

Your.

Research.

On it to be here I see a lot
of familiar faces this.

Broker at Caldwell banker.

What makes me unique if I specialize
in international real estate and

place as a top one person
globally to receive

my Certified International Property
specialists designation what that means

and allows me to help people buy or
sell residential or

commercial real estate globally if I can
assist any one of you in any way please

let me know thank you.

Good morning everyone my name
is as a family member Mark.

It's a pleasure to have you all here and

also if you need help with anything like
me now you're free and today thank you for

coming.

And I'll probably transcend
you to someone else.

So yeah I think most of you know me either
from meeting me last night some of you

know me from a few years back when
I was much thinner without a care.

And others just from the e-mail so
I keep saying I'm so

please understand that you're all here.

Thank you.

Good morning everyone occupied should see
the names damage I'd say that I'm a senior

majoring in international relations
at the University of Michigan and

I never will and I hope to pursue
a career in developments on

hoping to obtain my Masters next year.

Morning everyone I'm Brenda Moran and I'm
working in a National Women's think kind

of place in a lamb and now it is of course
is working with women wherever they

go where the entrepreneur college to help.

Enhance and improve the status of
where they are we are I think tank we

do research and with women's groups
together to talk about issues and

see how we might approve the status of
women and girls we've just been recently.

Honored by the states and you have
given us a resolution commending us

to work with improving the status of women
and girls in Georgia so here again and

just a matter of a few weeks will be going
around all throughout the state working

with different women's rights the see
where we are and to look at ways in which.

Hands and has their presence that is and
from that

we are claiming that we will take this
particular model in Georgia I don't think

we're also working in a national
with several women sort of a face.

Off.

OK so your hair that one of the things
that we have tried to do with this event

is support together stakeholders people of
good minds who could come to this task and

help us think through what kind of
design we want to pilot come summer and

we're depending on you to really be honest
and authentic about what it is that

you think we need to be thinking about so
that's number one we emphasize

that me Georgia Tech as a place
it's considerable cry being.

Just the call John we know how to put
things together we look at problems

as the thing to do so we see this
as a problem space that needs to be

interrogated and addressed reasonable
ways the whole notion of eco system there

is something that has come up
immediately about what it means for

us to figure out where we put our hand
else if we're going to stay in our lane

as a logistic co-manager this
conversation of this relationship

of the things that can be done we need to
figure out how we're going to do that and

so one of the things
that we immediately were.

Drawn to is the expertise of a group or

someone who puts together eco systems and

national So
what I want to do now is to do things to

have a Daniel start out by talking about
what their view of the eco system is and

some of the observations that she has
been making for us to break storm and

for a few minutes about way that we're
seeing the challenges generally and

then we thought it would be better to
break up into groups that we can have

a more intense conversation about the way
that we see the needs the resources

the opportunity challenges and whatever
you see that we need to be talking and

thinking about we can then going
back to the group we'll have to run

back out of conversation and.

I think that gender kind of suggests
that So let's start now with

Virginia.

How many moments.

I'm.

Someone who for
I go into the eco system component.

I want to mention one other happened I
where I mentioned only quantum leaps but

I'm also the lead international for
the women trade program for

the International Trade Center
in Geneva which is a joint

agency of the United Nations and
the World Trade Organization so

I'm strongly interested in getting women
engaged with global supply chains and

I just wanted to mention
that on the front and.

I'll give you a very quick hop
scotched through my career and

how I ended up focusing so
much on ecosystems I started off with

women's entrepreneurship in the United
States in the mid to late night seven

the use in the beginning of the women's
entrepreneurial movement in the states and

my gosh where there are a staggering
number of gaps an obstacle to that point

at that point women could not get credit
in their own name they had to have

their husbands sign for business loans or

excuse me not husband saving many
old son for business loans so

in one agreed just case a woman have
to have her seventeen year old son son

because he had the right equipment.

There were many of her
challenges at that time and

what we decided we have to do
was to create legislation to get

some of those challenges changed there
was no counting of women who owned

corporations at that point so the U.S.
government thought and

the nineteen and
even use that women had turned over had

sales of ten thousand dollars a year and
that was published for a number of years.

In the state of small business because
they had never bothered to count women

who owned corporations.

Many other issues along about that time
and meanwhile when I was president

of the National Association of Women
Business Owners in the US when you linked

that organization with an international
group in Nineteen Eighty-Four and

I began to learn a lot about the even more
difficult challenges that women business

owners were having in other
countries I've had the pleasure and

sometimes that of working with
women's business groups and

about one hundred countries
now on all continents and

the situation in the US is amazingly
good compared to the situation and

other countries but many of the same
situations were coming up again and

again and countries offer and
then a much more complicated and

torturous way then is
the case in the US and

we decided that we really wanted to look
at how we could share best practices

across countries in one thousand nine
hundred ninety seven I organized the first

of three global practice fronts
is on women centric inertia for

always be at that point there were
hardly any best practices the US and

Canada had most of them by the time
we did the two thousand fronts we had

a number of best practices that had been
shared three years earlier that were

picked up by other countries by
the time we did the two thousand and

four count fronts we had
a taking number of best practices

that we had jumped from thirty
five countries the first time.

Fifty countries the second time and
the six countries the third time and

fabulous models that were coming out
of many many different countries

we found we could all
learn from each other so

at the time of the two thousand
fronts I decided that I

wanted to create something that
could be a vehicle to share.

Best practices.

Across countries in an ongoing kind of
way so I was one of the co-founders of.

Of quantum leaps which is
the global Excel or endure for

women some through partnerships how come
about by the way once a sponsor of that

event which was held in Paris and we also
watched the global banking on events for

women which was to begin with the group
of five banks it's now about forty

banks around the world that are focused
on loans to women owned assets and

knees and so quantum leaps was
officially born in Georgia.

A large meeting and Atlanta.

And Wayne decided that
one of the things we

wanted to do was to
focus on eco systems and

how we could better things out
the world in terms of finances was

focused on women entrepreneurs
micro enterprises and

micro finance when I decided our
space was going to be as nice

because we thought that could have
a very significant impact on him

point we really were interested in growth
oriented women owned businesses and

we didn't want to be looking
at just one hundred dollars or

two hundred dollars in an micro finance so

the only concept of the ecosystem
when we first worked with him.

WELCH sponsored the initial
We're about twenty twenty and

we developed a an ecosystem for

the United States we did
have some twenty ten and

I didn't know whether different way than
we're doing it right now in the U.S.

we have such an advanced ecosystem so
many.

Changes have happened in the United States
that we were able to have experts

in every field write about
the best practices in most areas

were right now doing an ecosystem an India
and I'll tell you about that one and

here is a huge country a very
complicated country and

with a number of differences
from one state to another or

from one city to another we
decided we would make our lives

easier by starting with Bangalore and
that was a very good choice

it's known as India's sell it come
Valley the women entrepreneurs there

were just absolutely excellent and
what really what we did

was we looked at seven different
aspects of the ecosystem.

We start with the research data and
test sticks because if you don't have

a good sense of who all of the players
are you barely know where to began.

So we do some gusts top
research when we do.

Surveys and meetings with
individual women entrepreneurs and

we also have a mayoral control group so
we can sort of look at the variation so

we have about half as many male
entrepreneurs that we meet

with as women business owners.

When we look at.

And trying in capacity building and

all of the vehicles that can
help facilitate that access to

finance of course is very important
one of the missing areas for

a long time was the access
to markets piece and so

we've done a lot of work in the access
to markets area and India so

we're looking at access to corporate
markets that includes the multinational

corporations as well as
the Indian domestic markets

government procurement
institutional procurement So

that could be the World Bank
that could be.

The United Nations system etc and
international trade.

Decided that we would focus
very much on a semi and

growth oriented companies in this
area one of our partners as well

connect International I don't know if
any of you from Coke are familiar with

we connect International You all are very
active member of it but it's a group

of multinational corporations that want
to source from women owned businesses.

And so they have been very
engaged with the process

because they are can only interested
in finding women suppliers.

Then the next area is technology
innovation and sustainability so

when you are down to five the number
of Excel writers thank you baiters that

scepter that are very very interested in
getting more women and gauged with this.

And also when a number of angel investment
groups that are very interested

in building strong
linkages soon the tech and

invention area the next area is
carefully important and it's not as.

Adequate we understand in most countries
but it's the policy and advocacy area

the National Association of
Women Business Owners in the US and

now a fabulous organization called
The way women impacting public policy

we have systematically worked on getting
power suits and programs through and

if you don't do that if you don't
really put the pressure on and

figure out where the right pressure
points are no matter how good

your program recommendations or your
policy recommendations you're not really

going to get anywhere so
that's an important piece of that and

then the seventh area is really
building the ecosystem and

then within the women's and our prize
movement to Gene them the power to see

an advocacy still sucked up
the outgrowth of this process.

Are a series of policy and
program recommendations we

then also a Donna Frye
the organizations that

can be broods in particular areas
that still you see here in many

ways if you're working with
a smaller country because or

a very sophisticated country that
has very strong business and

social networks is going to
be fascinating by the time

we moved to implementing the national
map because it's such a big country so

to use the most of the women's business
networks are not national a couple of them

have just been starting to become more
national and the last six months or

one year but
getting them lined up on the same page

some of them will be having to work
very assiduously within their own set.

Or stay because they've got so
many challenges the differences

between Bangalore which are set
up here compared with Delhi I'm

a National Capital Region which
has some much more patriarchal.

Rests forward thinking.

Organizations it's very difficult for
women and

me parts of the national capital
region to work outside the home

because they have to get family
approval for this so that doesn't mean

just your husband that means your mother
and father and especially your mother and

father in law who are going to be very
supportive of this and some cases.

After we develop the policy and

program recommendations it's all
about building partnerships.

Getting stakeholder in gauge
of like minded people.

That advocacy training and
the implementation including the use of

technology to drive it where
outside working on a roadmap to

twenty twenty right now we're
talking about women and but

then we're doing good you and I know the
Arab Emirates which is going to be a much

much easier process than certain
of the city and states and

and ending up with that sort of
a quick overview and ten minutes and

I'll be happy that dialogue
further in the breakout groups or

during the breaks Thank you well the thing
that I know about doing these kinds

of work socks is the growth they have
the thirds of them from that time with

the reality of info or
just putting some things on the table

that goes juices flowing through all
the next twenty minutes I want you to

be thinking about ideas that you
just want to throw on the table.

I recover are one thing I am a University
of Michigan trained linguists and

so I get drawn very
clearly to our vocabulary.

And rot me just reminded me of his quiet
way that we are tossing vocabulary

of around without necessarily clarify what
that would cabin where is all about so

I thought we'd take a few minutes
to just have our different because

the stakeholders pull out the vocabulary
that is the the coin of their

realm to make sure that we are talking
from the same perspective so

that paying for and an educator or
traditional act them acute does not

operate in the business world is
that concept of a cube eight or so

those of you who do incubate years can you
tell me what it could better is as compare

it with some of these other things that I
might be thinking that it make you better.

Not write in.

I run both ninety minutes and
an accelerator so

I guess I will start by differentiating
between the two right A.T.C.

is an incubator we physically
intimate we have space for

about forty companies forty thousand
square feet across the road here

it's very selective it's hard to get
into about ten companies get in here

they get space they get very deep level
coaching and they're welcome to stay for

up to three years so it's a very long
program and it's very individualistic So

whatever needs of that company
it's continuing and mentorship and

deep connections to know our corporate
partners like Kirk through the mentor

chambre here in Atlanta for a start up to
someone exonerate or I have some router

is a really intense short program
Ours is about twelve weeks long.

We don't actually have.

Physical space for it in pursuit of kicks
for a bit different we use I don't attack.

A space technically for it so they don't
get co-working space to our companies

most accelerators do give crew
working space right as well and

there are companies that are coaching but
it's very short it's very intense and

typically focuses a lot
on on how to get very

quickly.

Thank you.

You know that this is actually and a funny
topic because I wrote an article for

magazine about this three years
ago called What's In a name.

So if we look at this different type
of entities from the business world

that are out there there's co-working
space that can be anywhere from ridges to

to what we do at opportunity where
there are just inexpensive office space

we shared resources meeting
rooms prep scene what have you

then we use the term incubator an E.Q.

baiter is a place where you've physically
occupying space in the facility

in combination with their
educational curriculum program E So

you can be bop out of your office
catch a a quick one hour seminar

on mastery market research or
best practices in start up law.

Excel or a hearse which I co-founded one

are can be a mixture of that
I've seen in the industry so

an exhilarating can be somebody who's not
occupying physical space in a particular

facility they may have their own
office space or their home based but

the curriculum that's provided for them
helps them increase I've seen exhilarating

as that are anywhere from comes conceptual
to early stage companies the most.

US will excel readers I've had experience
with are those that are helping

existing small to medium sized businesses.

That grew at such a rate they didn't
have time to put an infrastructure in

place departments in place and they were
beginning to plateau we all know that

that hard charging start ups by a year or
three is when either when they implode or

they springboard into true adolescence.

In that environment you also have
economic development groups so

we there are several in this room chambers
city there are state organizations what

have you that that provide general
incubation as well as acceleration.

For the purposes of this group out
an idea that I wrote about which is.

Maybe we need to start a new term called

a business acceleration programs something
to define it because let me promise you if

we went around this room whether
be academia or business.

Non-profit for
profit everybody's going to have a fairly

different term in that environment and
you know any and

I'm glad you brought it up because
there is no standardization for it.

Quickly in the last
decade particularly with.

More tech and high growth and scalable
companies we've seen the evolution of

the celebrator and the incubator and
we have that represented today.

By saying take a company about ideas stage
is just an idea and then they go through

but you have celebrate a program which
takes them from the idea of the minimum

buyable product from what the way Jim
was talking about in the middle of Bible

product to business model generation which
takes them to market this is sort of

an education but a developing a prototype
at a certain point made up start raising

capital because we don't have a capital
conversation and we're just talking about

kind of a narrative here and we're not
really getting down to these ideas we can.

Higher capital to move along the pipeline
for say the evolution of a cell or

later has evolved delegate count going
on and of course the eye where when you

banish the brain to six month coma CT
you actually receive a best make capital

usually from twenty five to fifty thousand
and then now it can't matter such as.

Five hundred Startups Y.
Combinator on the West Coast.

Also example of a number of check hundred
fifty thousand two hundred fifty thousand

before you get to the venture into the
logic and you state this is a look at it

from a pipeline perspective perhaps two of
you could talk about how you want to sell

a Raiders when you actually invest
capital in those fields farms and

conscious having a celebrator as well
which is probably one of the only black

owned celebrators in the country.

You know.

The minister has been really really good
and I think they also help a little so for

those who may not be familiar with those
terms might be helpful to provide some

very practical what Hartson elements and
what an incubator might look like for

your right of different organisations and.

Environment so I think and again just
like this gentleman said you need and

if you need to better can meet in
a number of different terms or

be interpreted a number to be terms
I think the two core gradients

are the people in place as long
as you have a place to meet and

people are interesting gathering I think
you have the core Greens now where to find

a one about I think education
is a very vital part about.

Creating having moved out of the people
out of there who are willing to invest in

these companies not just financially but
a more probably more importantly coaching

and mentoring like answering the questions
of what does it mean to have a business

model what is it means you have a product
that's worth buying and how do I.

Now my introduced to people
who have to have capital so

as you think back into your own
environment Susan kind of brought back

into this how can I create an incubator
that makes sense for my environment and

I think it's just people and you have one
place and you don't have to go crazy with

the place either Sometimes you can just
be a garage or even someone's basement so

it doesn't have to have a capital heavy.

We're recording so
this is why it's nice they would micro.

So I was going to I was really
people that would send my business.

Just going I'm an architect so I'm doing
everything works like an alcove I have

a hammer but I think this is what
I found that the company was

one of them one is not going to job
as they do from from Boston and

from one to I was a very bright man so
I thought about the money is

really important the society you know
it was something they intentionally and

I were exonerated and it was a No
one site where you have to be there.

Within twenty five to fifty thousand
dollars actually I'm not a list.

Because he wants to say we're going to buy
the five thousand dollars but I want to.

Go by Donald Trump.

That's outside financing
with the next one that would

show up to twenty five percent of
the thousand dollars which I was last so

I was untrue to my point Jon cannot
go back and say the ONLY dollars

We're going to have to find me a new
company and I was most of us a.

Lot of folks I mustn't think that's
going to have to think about some of.

The discussion of.

This explosion.

And they think if I haven't thought
about that I truly born an explosion

was happening because I was going
to start a tech business but

I question why do we still
want to buy because no.

Finally about a quarter
hundred thousand dollars to.

The price of a laptop.

This is not the top of the top.

Of my eyes it was an.

Excellent nurse and a mix of numbers
as well as what we call the sun.

Is that.

Right.

Now Susan is difficult for
us to sort of mill So there's a.

Lot of this exam so it's no surprise.

This.

Morning.

This is going to buy a.

Cloud in the US and
I think it was from this and so.

It was a I was going to sort of think
about what's in the book mission.

So.

I'm.

Going to happen to make great job of
framing the differences between six hours

the importance of place for
some programs but going back to.

Go back to John's point
adapting your computer or

exhilarated Graham to your
community isn't always.

A structure that it was capital.

Entrepreneurs and bring them.

One destination city for maybe one.

And over the course of an entire
three month program that we have and

maybe we have twelve days of
actual Burson programming

gateman supplemented by
remote assistance of course.

I think the critical if you hear.

This is addressing the premier
crap that Jeff mentioned.

There are many companies that are getting
traction at an angel stage and

just not able to get up to that series
a stage which is where the all of these

accelerators are coming from his capital
we're going to play capital into

every single company comes through one of
our programs it's actually structured so

that at the end of the month program

the ten to fifteen entrepreneurs that
we bring together rank each other

in order to address some of the inherent
bias season the venture capital and

early stage investment community
that are not getting addressed by.

Other other programs really and it's
really ended up giving us the ability to

to find innovative ideas went out
based specific Lee on whether or

not they're the best investment
a term that you'll hear.

Going around a lot because this is kind of
my wheel house a social enterprise that

means a lot of different things but

just to get everybody aligned on the way
that Bill is capital view side it is a for

profit enterprise that has a quantifiable
environmental or social impact.

Tied to its revenue generation capability
so every time you make a dollar

you're making a social impact
every time you make an over.

And it's probably going to talk a little
bit more about that in a moment but.

Very important to make sure that
we're running the businesses that

are the past possible businesses to
get in that series a stage that we

need to inject a little bit more
about oxygen back into the room.

One of the things that we're having
to keep together this is the.

Economic imperative with the social
imperative and then has come right back to

thank you for doing that the other thing
that we have to get is how to do it is.

You.

Josh.

And.

Now we're going.

To.

Thank you David I am Richard.

I was the assistant to the dean for
several years I have been friend.

And I'm going to take a slightly different
tack for two reasons one is The World Bank

finances three golden incubate
as an exhilarating as the world.

Six percent of those are disaster and
outcomes and

I think a lot of our international respect
also Well it is not as if all the men

are talking about exhilaration the other
women are which is an interesting

gap of love that one of them have been.

So first of all.

On the academic sorry I have to do
this to go looking for any models is

oftentimes done as a top down knowledge
transfer system and oftentimes and

I think you're making the comment that So
the most successful exhilarate or build in

knowledge management knowledge factor
systems to formalize the learnings of

the entrepreneurs as they progress through
the system and and worse the on for

to learn from each other as opposed
to just being a mentoring model and

that's both based on knowledge management
there's also an aspect of behavioral

psychology there's a behavioral
principles of entrepreneurship risk

taking really you're proving innovation
taking ownership over your own learning

it's essentially a series of experiments
that you're on you never really don't know

what you don't know when you have to learn
to be comfortable this current edition you

have to be I want to document that process
and that the theory process for a while is

involved I'm running a student accelerator
Midwestern normally university not

Berkeley these are kids are never going to
leave all these are kids are going to stay

on the farm and they're going to step so
that when a person accounting for

a movie like that mean that they haven't
and we did not give them access to mentors

for ninety days we force them to learn how
to learn and how to learn how to behave

like an entrepreneur and then once
they're on their learning we then

give them access to mental skills
not assume which is always a top.

Mentorship model and

especially if you think you know all
the aspects of what entrepreneurship and

giving a very important empower
entrepreneurs learn from each other and

the great mechanisms for that knowledge
discovery and then also in terms of

your systems with really exist interesting
example the one with the corporations

in the room where the boundary
between Egypt and exhilaration and

corporate venturing and corporate impact
are getting diffused and I'm using one

example of can really hard corporations
a program called Moms inspired by her.

And it's a program where women
are encouraged to submit ideas about new

products which are healthier and they can
really Clark provide seed helpful but most

importantly rather than funding If you
better bring these mob bring earth into

Can relief in how the mentor by product
development teams inside the corporation.

Believes that is inside
of a corporate entity.

As opposed to just funding it outside
externalities of the boundaries can be

diffuse as ways of I'm sure
in your knowledge in a way

that empowers entrepreneurs don't require
setting up a physical space somewhere else

in the program the fairly successful they
have over one thousand women entrepreneurs

you're submit new ideas thirty of which
get I man several of which are that I

you know the next it's of the have
become viable companies now globally but

more than that it's actually entirely
Chines a profitable lifecycle the company

well they're being driven by their
customers not whether quite developed.

By listening to their women.

That's my problem.

Short answer is I'm trying to figure
that out I don't exactly know but

it's not that he said of the company's.

Recent to be explored in a computer
with the World Bank's money

we're not seeing any cars and
in fact coming out of these programs and

the initial research it's not
surprising very strong leadership and

redefine processes to be
driven to give voice to big.

Culture aggressive entrepreneurship in a
stone he wants to sort of things going to

the school and he's also doing exhilarate
or this person to have a lot of background

and still an incredible Graham because
it's the buzz word of the man another

story was running around and I don't
really crave processes that make it a fact

of a sort of most predictive if you is a
very strong leader who has a deep personal

experience that person has committed
you well to coaching think of

a football coach model more so
than a professor.

Answer that I think.

Those of us in a startup culture you know
what's the best to start up called you

know that most of the start of that with
your best you say but like John Maxwell so

they feel for.

Best in this ecosystem
you go when I understand

that in which a lot of
the companies will feel it some but

only because my shot back of be able
with Napster he was able to succeed with

Facebook so we're going to you
know continue to be able to go.

Back next.

Hour to get out and
she talked about she talked about.

This and more invested money.

That's the one I wanted money.

GIRLS TO BLACK go into brown and
women are about three to four percent and

a part of the challenge is that.

The happiest point capital you know

I'm not going up in a line of council is
going to stage invest in the startup.

You know right now I'll go and
ask part of what we have to do to

address.

Again I'm sure a few from Coca-Cola.

COLA we're looking a lot
of the lean startup

philosophy and inside of the company
I've been told by the group

I'm one of their advisor someone
the advisors who are global.

Innovation and entrepreneurship and
my question Who are those especially those

who work in start ups an accelerator
think of yours is no longer what

I believe.

Richard mentioned the stars
Kimberly Clark My question is

how many how many of these other
models have you all seen the what do

you think the future will be as far as.

Corporations being able to Harken Energy
that's out there related to

to start ups and you know taking
on that that that mantra and

going inside Having pitched best and
tending the product development.

Process I just I'm really curious to know
how where you think this will go like to

your point that we can't just keep we have
to have we can't have all the oxygen stuff

in our corporations are jumping
into Thought I'd love to hear

what you all think this is going.

On I think I think.

That.

When you start to do so but
it's not glamorous lots of people have.

Bad or saying when I was I was
about to buy the consciousness of

a bank's.

Presence I was open.

So.

There was something

businesses.

But.

Most of those companies

right.

And.

So.

Option on our own and I thank them for.

That.

Because.

That's another thing we should talk

about.

So discussion that we should

go.

Down.

And reduce the rates.

But who are those people how
do they prepare themselves.

If the regime.

I plan to make sure that it's really.

You know.

Hello everyone so I just wanted to.

I wanted to clarify slash

data point through something that
Robin said previously and then.

On the young woman from Coca-Cola
about how Sure it's how.

Operations can involve themselves in the.

Developing of a more robust sort of.

Pipeline for startups and technology
enabled companies so the second but

just like at a very depressing data point
so it rightly said so like nationally

statistics for venture capital you've got
billions of dollars invested every year

let's do a little less than five
percent go to women like an umbrella of

women of all types of backgrounds and then
less than one percent of our American but

like above blow your mind of
black women there is a group.

Of crunch very innovative for startups and

there were there were six black
women that they got the last.

Combat order in in the entire country so

it's like those are how dismal the number
of are and that absolutely need it we're

talking about innovation and bringing a
Welcome back to the innovation economy and

it's not that women or
whatever background or anyone's talent.

Driven or want to be here about being
proud of solving problems that matter.

Is an irrational matching bias in
the space that is killing us all so

it's ridiculous but.

If you're if this point one of the things
that Atlanta actually does very well

is that sort of corporate.

Building that bridge there and there's a
there's a program at There's a program at

the chamber called corporate Angels
where some of the biggest corporations

call Atlanta home for headquarters.

They partner with startups to be
like their first customer So for

instance I think it was right.

I think with or
some Yeah I was their first.

Big customer reported from consumers so

their first customer sort of bankrolled
early development of a two hundred.

First couple customers and you know you
can do a lot with that but a lot of people

didn't know about it I have some
colleagues who had no idea about it I just

found out about it because I was talking
to someone who was involved with that but

people don't I don't think enough people
know about those types of programs but

that can move the needle
from them to flee for

an early start up you know I have
a colleague of mine she has a virtual

executive assistant business so
she can go to a group of.

Coke was my first client but
I was a licensed.

However.

Thousands of dollars you know helps
the smaller guys and other big guys and

girls this is the most mysterious
company to look at so so I think that.

That's a really good model that
Atlanta has been able to get going and

is it worth your birthdate of
the opening up of office of.

Just one million dollars donation
over the course of three years to.

Georgia Tech to start to
finish tax specific program.

And so
that will be acceleration education.

As well.

As in capital for things like a.

So how can we great have
more great innovation and

exercise along those lines the.

Chamber we have a industry Connect program
where last year twenty seven deals were

done with our companies getting our first
customer those deals ranged from a thirty

thousand dollars commitment to
a three million dollar commitment so

lots of innovation going
on with corporations but I

do want to bring it back to the women of I
think that's why we're here today right so

the numbers that for an outsider right on
right it's about seven percent of females

in this country would start businesses get
some type of engine of or receive funding.

And it's just abysmal and
there is no series a gap for

women right there to see the gap for women
we don't get money in the seed round so

we never get to the point that
we're going for a series a.

And so that's a huge issue for us.

Before we go forward before we go forward

it's important to to also say
when you look at it from a guy X.

board perspective that black women
do have to invest in themselves so

even though we say they're googly billions
of dollars what has to happen is first of

all we in the United States
are the most educated group so

what happens is when you take black
women with you have friends and

that's where you kind of
swing into the word but

let's say if you have that one hundred
fifty thousand dollars for print job

how many companies as an individual
do you have invested so

if you may one day are living
like you make seventy five and

then every year are you taking
fifty thousand dollars and

besting in five different businesses for
two different businesses because in our

communities we do have an issue
with getting to that first.

To five thousand dollars and
it was no question and

we do understand I often times and
it has been a historical thing

black people are poor but when you
start talking about black women and

levels of education once we
start investing in ourselves and

with each other and
amongst each other then other groups and

other people will say I
want to get on that because

they're starting to invest in themselves
take up market share and all of that so

what corporate people can do is
actually become an angel investors or

my pro investors look self
because as an entrepreneur.

What tends to be a challenge is when you
go to meet that corporate person and

they look down on entrepreneurship
because they're interested in drawing so

whether that read this Coke
whether it's Google and so

we tend to deny the entrepreneurship and
then our young people are suffering

because other communities their two
children yes can get that fifteen thousand

can sometimes even get that fifty million
but if we can get fifty thousand and

everyone is walking around with
a revival shoes don't really stop having

those shoes and start investing in X.L.
So you know how to say even a phone

that invest in themselves so whether
it's America whether it's a benefit

of the countries in Africa the Caribbean
had whatever it is that you want to grow

that is what we can do harvest from
a corporate perspective from a.

Team and I'm going to make a point
of word here and I'm not saying to

not and I'm not saying it to get into
the politics even though it may be

political The whole idea of a handout
versus a not handout but when we

start talking about our education and we
know once we're educated we tend to lose.

Get things for granted the city which we.

Through our history that's the point where
we have to start living below our means

and helping each other and then we can say
one angle investor actually told us this

he said if you all can get that first
round that first twenty five thousand that

first fifty thousand he said bring them to
us we'll be glad to give them to fifty but

you are showing that you even care
to invest don't want another.

And I was.

I'd like to take you back on.

You also sort of it's sort of different
terminology around funding and

I'm in the trenches right now so.

Right now I and I and
I agree with what you're saying but.

Sure and I would like to take your twenty
five thousand I understand that but

it so so when it comes part
of the part of the issue of

diversity in my opinion when it comes.

To start ups or particular tech
start ups is the expectations around

the entrepreneur being able to
access capital so when you start.

Right now the end of
that when you start at.

The expectation of you know you're able
to you know get friends family and

money to be able to push out your
initial product or platform your M.V.P.

your minimal viable product that
you can you know iterate upon and

then you know raise your money
to take off and get growth.

But if you look like me your community
doesn't necessarily have the same mindset

around investing in a private
company that other people do so

you know for some because I've been
in planning meetings were just like.

You're raising five hundred K. just get
it from your parents then some ensembles

like who was parents and uncles but
nobody nobody liquidating them for

a long paper may decide a bit
are you crazy but they but

some people have that ability
you thought just kind of like.

Like what can I do for
you if you can't you point it's like.

We've got to get something else out here
so I don't know what the answer to that

question is because it's a it's
a it's there's a paradigm shift and

I'm and I'm mindset because I'm on with
money that has been absolutely steeped in

historical drama around money so
I'm not arguing that at all but

it's not happening and
it's not happening with people who

beyond have the me you there are plenty
of you know there's plenty of.

You know the women who are great money
even when you lack corporate money but.

There are some people who you know like
having a life with you know in fifteen K.

a fact every month in my that they don't
they don't understand that you don't go

shopping for much you could find a company
like it that you see but it's also.

What I think can't come soon when
what the community is going to get

asked often wife Idea Village
fifteen years later was success and

white man some a charter of it was
founded by five people for one reason and

one reason only we all had to
leave the state to get a job.

And get on the next to seven not one
kept with his annoyance right now and

that's why we started it and it wasn't a
boy playing it wasn't a black thing it was

everybody has one thing it's a state
without one Fortune five hundred company

in the entire state on his completely
service based industry but

what happened I think that's
where Shantanu is going.

We put back together a program
based on our profile as a city

what tangible assets do we.

From a university standpoint from
a transportation standpoint what have you

and we got the community involved in
the community being everybody and

they were there with gentle supporters
because I want to drive towards the Cooper

question they were they were originally
supporters or only after that did we

listen to Lane and Loyola sue now and
University in New Orleans and

they came on board and the last we're
going to zation to get on board because we

didn't have one corporate sponsorship
dollars in that market was the city and

they came in much much later after all
be real fair a lot of blood sweat and

tears and hit the pavement and
when they came in I'll

give them credit they came in full force
and they jumped on board full force.

What really but no.

Idea really and it ends Burley or

yours was all of a sudden we had
Google Sales Force dot com Amazon

come on board ever made publicize that
had out of what was going on there so

if I were to look at the major
corporations in this room and

say if you can create awareness that
it's cool to be an entrepreneur

whether it's you know or in Africa or
in Asia there's actually

massive massive value that
comes along with that and

the other side of that was we were real
honest with ourselves there was a whole

group an idea village that coined the term
sell a COM by you and we all looked at

each other's founders and started laughing
because to wanelo a lot exaggerating or

Sue Now you know don't have C.S.
department us.

So we're going to be the saw a con by you
creating high tech companies when we don't

even graduate a computer programmer
taking over their right.

Arm So yeah you know what my
company goes in and looks.

Criteria we go through sixty different
things that are very likeable to each

destination and what want to
actually lead toward success so

an opportunity to help there is very
distinct vertical those that are equally

at the base strong seeds creative Colter
logistics right app development and

then the last part of that
is is is true you see money.

When I have a conversation
I have a startup that

after I get one through a lot of money.

I was funded on the thought of thirty
fourth venture capital pitch and I and

I messed up I started a one
off a masterwork by way west.

Whether it's a land out where Chicago or
no why Windsor Cincinnati a weapon of mass

if you want to get funding for
a tech company go to San Francisco.

Right.

But it's either wise so if you're going to
be in a destination whether it's Africa or

somewhere in the states we're
Asia play to your strong suit and

play to those investors strong suit that
are in that market OK I want to use my

typing little bit hair in order
to keep the conversation going so

I want to make comments you
have not spoken before so

that's one.

That's the ME.

I thought there was a forward and
then we'll have a serious break.

For our coppery friends for
a bathroom break you would come up and

get into smaller groups so we can actually
start putting some states in the ground

OK that would start with you're going to.

Have a moment I think I'm sitting and

thinking we're talking about startups and
I'm going.

To get the finishing to
perspective on what we mean.

From my experience really
you know studies start up.

Somebody who's probably.

Dabbled in business before and that's not
where we have typically started because.

Of hard work and if it is an investment.

Getting traction is always much more
difficult So our starting point to who is

with people.

And ideally going back and
really working in the business for.

Driving a business for two to three
years that's not that's what my that's

that's the starting point so I'm not sure
in the context when you're talking about

start up where where where where where
where with that is with with that start

at these examples business people people
fail in the business because when we talk

about.

The selection criterion first of all.

You know what both the experience and
the find themselves into the relation

I think that's important and
when we have worked with.

It was much easier to start them out for.

Them because.

We work with that it's called the gap so.

We have a program.

Funded and it was a.

One on.

One investment.

Off of the practical.

Side to it which is.

You know so I think I think thinking
about these programs holistically.

Be able to see where you can consistently.

Make.

So I agree with you again I that's what I
want to talk about I want to talk about

from the corporate perspective
because there's a middle ground here

right it's all about.

I grew up in cells before I went to
marketing there was something called

the low hanging fruit which went after the
maker in numbers and there is low hanging

fruit out there guys it's kind of like
you can push the pencil up a hill or

you can strategize to get in those gaps
where people are looking to give you money

to do things right and there is a gap in
corporate America and I can speak for

I.B.M. but you know P.S. Coca-Cola
Everybody when we go to the supplier

diversity fairs is the same thing over and
over again my folks not my folks but

my partners folks have a list
of areas we are big baggy for

women and diverse unsupplied OK Where

normally in the areas
that we normally are not.

We can find out because the only people
who want to do a chart I T. staffing

we can find a consultant people that
want to do communications marketing and

advertising we can't find one trucking
company we can't find one want only

a manufacturer we can't find software
development companies those are the things

that so I'm not saying that was the areas
you have to go with what I'm saying is

that back to the ecosystem let's map out
with the ecosystem because their wants and

needs and let's try to fill that gap
through the path of least resistance right

I've got a great program
Global Entrepreneur Program looking for

software developer companies less
than five years in existence.

Venture capital money OK for the time they
will work they want to match you with

our research we have been number
one of research lab in the world.

For twenty we have been up the most
number of patents in the world for

twenty five near straight OK.

We will get you in there with our Ph D.'s
We will have to see you all being mentored

by an executive with an I.P.O.
but not Monica we're not in

line I think the one we know where to be
seen because we're coming in there and

we're saying yeah but we don't do
marketing I'm sorry although we had maybe

with our agency of record we just you
know that's what we're looking for

the other is that corporations need to
versus this is it is a business right

we only people that look like the people
in the markets that we serve God boy and

we're looking for
businesses not better skilled right away.

What have thought about how you would
scale because you can get a big contract

we can be your I don't know it might
be careful what you ask for right but

what they're looking for and we've
proven that we have taken on a couple of

businesses that I know of one right
here in Atlanta global why because

we welcome now is the talent and
amount of the C. and I want

case there was a Hispanic woman who was an
entirely different business but thought so

highly of her capabilities place that
we don't really need that business but

we got this gap here how about you saw
that business and started with it she said

I don't know anything about that don't
worry about it we'll take you because

we think highly of you she's in about
ten countries around the world now so

you know you want to grow with your
column you want to do what's next year

also let's look at what corporate
America is looking for and

needs to be quite off the ball and
wrapped up in the ecosystem and

maybe you guys on the front line
of examination maybe you can push

people into areas that are close to
what they want to do but you know but.

Right.

All the time.

We.

Watch Fox and we have a right for that so

I want to have thought was.

Right.

You know.

What am I but
I was bouncing around the room.

Sense.

Could come talks but
I feel I'm coming from.

Much of a sector has been the twenty
dollars a year on a decade ago and

I as a whole I'm not want things to come
in and I'm going to them just what we're

talking about here.

A concept of a bunch of capital and
it's such a very unfamiliar topic

back home I don't know how can we
have a population of my time again

when I come from where we're actually
approaching up to this point and such

the market sector.

And most of them don't even want to own
the business you know that want to buy

more is my search has been done and
so on a couple of questions so

I my mind I can answer them
after we come back but

I want to also must understand a but more
because from my experiences on bunches

of my company has looked out for for

capitals from a venture
capital provider I was.

Ready.

To work on whether actually investing
in this business is a permanent or

temporary about or the time dilations
of this and how to determine.

Does it always have to be a start up or am
I going to be a company that has a manner

of death has a very physical
presence going on and.

If it's not started up it
has one other business but

moving the boxes to finance
to not just go and expand.

Are not investing adventurous.

And how many of them are not focusing on.

The countries and about what kind
of class are you an investing in

when we're talking about the betterment.

I'm not talking about.

Governance.

Is there any but
to have in the States and.

Now.

In terms of exemption of the dogs or
any other you know

support system that you provide for
these startups or existing businesses and

what are you talking about because
there are some stereotypes.

And then.

I'm addressing this issue is it human and
if I may have been a proponent you're

going to have someone talks to just deal
with that within your organizations or

is it just something that's in the in
the lines whenever we're talking about

these things OK now we're on board.

Then I talk to we're going to break but
what I want you to do

is to think about whether
there are people that.

Have this group.

We welcome.

And I want to have.

So we're going to write about.

That with a throw here.

And then a combat growing to.

Report out of.

How much.

Work with have my.

Own.