https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h How I built this podcast en-us 2022-02-25 14:11:06 UTC 2026-02-26 11:31:59 UTC hello@padlet.com milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068785179 Melissa started the company The Lip Bar in 2011. She wanted to make a company that made Black woman feel beautiful and have beauty products for them. She found out that she could make lip stick after trying to buy more products so she could make more soap. That is when she realized that she wanted to start making lip stick.]]> 2022-02-28 03:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068785179 milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068789795 Melissa had to buy molds for the lip stick. At that time only a few companies were running the lip stick market. So she had to find molds and then purchase them. These were expensive and a big purchase for her.]]> 2022-02-28 03:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068789795 milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068792713 Melissa had a few friends that were working other jobs. She recruited them to come work for her at the new company. None of them were really making money at the beginning. Melissa was pretty much broke and only had money to invest in her company. Luckily her friends still worked for no pay.]]> 2022-02-28 03:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068792713 milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068794633 Melissa was able to start the business and know what she was doing because she worked in business before. She went to college and studied finance which helped her start the business. She also studied other business subjects which in turn helped her to start The Lip Bar. She had everything she needed to start up the business and succeed.]]> 2022-02-28 03:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068794633 milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068796426 Melissa originally started in Detroit. She was born there and grew up there. She left to go to college and work but after starting her new business she came back. Once the business was big enough to move into a brick building she decided Detroit was the place. She bought a store in Detroit and this was her first store was a big step in the right direction.]]> 2022-02-28 03:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068796426 milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068800763 When Melissa was starting her business she had no place to make her lip sticks. She had to make them in her apartment and  her apartment was a mess. She made all her lip sticks and ran her business from her apartment.]]> 2022-02-28 04:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068800763 milnat16 https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068807429 Melissa was able to get her friends to work with her but also get target to agree to take her products. They sold her products online and then put them in store. She contributed everything she had to the business and her friends contributed there time and were basically volunteers.]]> 2022-02-28 04:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/milnat16/qtlwcp8q68c39i8h/wish/2068807429