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Month: August 2021

EMPOWERING CONTRACTORS WITH BETTER COST-TRACKING

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A MOBILE APP MEANS NO MORE BAD HANDWRITING AND SMUDGED OUT records

 

Khalid David is Founder and CEO of TracFlo, a company with a predictive financial management platform that is empowering America’s contractors.

Originally from the Bronx, Khalid was born into a family of tradesmen with a deep connection to his Afro-Caribbean roots. So it’s no surprise that, even with education from Morehouse, Columbia, and MIT, Khalid ended up in the construction industry. And it was those experiences that opened his eyes to the opportunity to better track the dynamic cost changes happening on today’s construction sites. And so TracFlo was born. Khalid is a passionate speaker and advocate, and has won competitions at MIT, Harvard, and Stanford business schools.

Khalid has a great story, you’ll want to listen in.

 

“Success is not mutually exclusive from my blackness.”
~ Khalid David

In this episode Khalid and Dan discussed:

  • representing the Bronx
  • His Saint Kitts and Nevis heritage
  • Emerging from college during the Great Recession
  • Building software inside a traditional construction firm
  • How TracFlo replaces the pad and pencil in the field
  • Wearing the mantle of pioneering black entrepreneur

 

 

“I’ve wasted so much time, so much emotional energy, trying to convince people who are scared.”
~ Khalid David

MORE on KHALID and TRACFLO

Khalid:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-david-34a55824/
https://www.twitter.com/kdpegasus
https://www.instagram.com/kdpegasus

TracFlo:
https://tracfloapp.com
https://republic.co/tracflo
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracflo
https://www.instagram.com/tracfloapp

 

 

“…as black innovators, we’ve always been the creators of culture..”
~ Khalid David

 

SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES WITH BIG DATA

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Putting analytics into the hands of small business owners

 

Patrice Darby Neely, Founder, and CEO of GoLogic, a data aggregation and economic development platform helping small businesses accelerate growth and reduce failure, while increasing the capacity and capabilities of the organizations that support them.

Patrice spent many years in childcare before starting her first startup, GoNanny, to address the fragmentation of care occurring with the busy schedules of families on the go. Timing wasn’t on her side, unfortunately, as her company fell victim to the whipsaw of the US economy that came with COVID-19. With GoNanny, Patrice had a front-row seat during the height of the pandemic and she saw how vulnerable small businesses are and how inefficient the ecosystem can be in connecting them with timely and impactful resources. And so GoLogic was born. Patrice is an alum of 1871 in Chicago, TechStars, and has been funded by the likes of Pipeline Angels and Google for Startups Black Founder Fund.

Patrice has a great story. Be sure to listen in.

 

“We had a waiting list of 5,000 families, and then it grew to 10,000.”
~ Patrice Darby Neely

In this episode Patrice and Dan discussed:

  • growing up with two-parent entrepreneurs
  • what drew her originally into the childcare industry
  • the devastating impact of COVID on her first company
  • how GoLogic rose from the ashes of 2020
  • the beauty and power of data, even for the small business

 

 

“What I experienced that day. I will never forget for my entire lifetime.”
~ Patrice Darby Neely

MORE on PATRICE and GOLOGIC

Patrice:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrice-darby-neely
https://www.gologicsolutions.com/our-founder
https://www.gologicsolutions.com/pitch2win

GoLogic Solutions:
https://www.gologicsolutions.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gologicsolutions
https://twitter.com/gologic_solves
https://www.facebook.com/gologicsolutions

 

 

“…it’s not what you now, but it’s everything you don’t know.”
~ Patrice Darby Neely