Scaling Your Startup After Success
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Show Overview:
Melanie Elturk, co-founder and CEO of Haute Hijab, talks to Amy Millman, a passionate advocate for women entrepreneurs building Big Businesses Starting Small about her stellar deed round success. Melanie talks about co-founding Haute Hijab along with her husband and the challenges of scaling after they secured $2.3 million in seed financing to help accelerate growth. How do you keep your culture and still grow?
About GFGF:
The Get Found Get Funded podcast is at the intersection of entrepreneurship and social justice where we focus on entrepreneurship as a possible path to wealth creation — specifically for Black and Latinx communities.
Featured Guest(s): Melanie Elturk & Amy Millman
Melanie Elturk:
Amy Millman:
Key Takeaways:
- If you find an opportunity market, cater to it, such markets don’t come along very often.
- You get the hang of entrepreneurship, despite not loving every part of it.
- Set up the right processes early on so that you can scale.
Timestamps:
1:00: Intro
3:45: How Amy got into investment and more about her company Springboard,
12:01: What inspired Melanie’s career change?
15:30: What it’s like to work with one’s husband.
29:00: Challenges Melanie is facing in the business
Items Mentioned in the Show:
Springboard : (Amy’s Women investing company)
Quotes from the Show:
- “As an entrepreneur you’ve struck gold when you can find an actual void in fashion.” - Melanie Elturk
