Young African American Enterpreneurs by Cameron Woods

My African American Entrepreneur

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•My African American entrepreneur is gabby goodwin.

Biography

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•Gabby Goodwin was born in 2006 and at the age of 7 she and her mom started their business. Gabby Goodwin and he mom started their business because when gabby was younger she kept on losing the barrates that were in her hair. So her and her mom decided to make their own type of bow.

Her Company

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•Gabby Goodwins company was founded in 2014 and since then they have three patents on gaBBY Bows and they come in 15 colors with three different designs.

•When the company first launched and began selling barrates the mother daugther duo did it through their online store called gabbybows.com.

Entrepreneurship Program

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•In the year 2018 gabby launched the Mommy and Me entrepreneurship Academy.

•More than 50 girls and their mothers from 16 states have enrolled for mentoring and started their own businesses under the confidence brand.

Fact 1

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•Gabby become a six-figure entrepreneur by the sixth grade.

Fact 2

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•Her story has been featured on The Real, Good Morning America, Aspire TV, NPR How I Built This, The Today Show, BET, HSN and QVC, and in Inc., Forbes, Kiplinger Magazine, Black Enterprise, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Free Enterprise Magazine, JET.com, Essence.com, Madamnoire, and AOL

Fact 3

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•Gabby was named a 2015 South Carolina Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the youngest to ever receive this award.

Fact 4

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•The company was named a 2016 SCORE and Sam’s Club American Small Business Champion and the 2016 SCORE Foundation Outstanding Diverse Business of the Year.

Fact 5

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•Gabby was also named the 2018 Black Enterprise Teenpreneur of the Year, the 2019 SpeakerCon Teen Speaker of the Year, a 2020 Women Founders Foundation Network Fast Pitch Junior Judge, and the 2022 U.S. Small Business Administration Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of South Carolina.

Fact 6

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•Someone that gabby looks up to is Mikaila Ulmer who created Me and the Bees.

Fact 7

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•Gabby and her mother started thinking of their business when gabby was 5.

Fact 8

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•The reason gabby and her mom created their business is because gabby kept on losing the barrates in her hair

Fact 9

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•In the year 2018 gabby launched her entrepreneurship academy called Mommy and Me.

Fact 10

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•Gabby has three patents on GaBBY Bows and they come in 15 colors and three designs. They have sold over one million GaBBY Bows in all 50 U.S.. states and 15 countries.