YWomen in Business Accelerator – Cohort III

How can you sustain and excel in your business?

• Map out the next stage of business growth with confidence and get better results. 
• Develop your financial acumen, and deepen your understanding of financial statements to make better business decisions.
• Sharpen your financial knoweldge to grow your business sustainably.
• The Accelerator is the only program in Hawaii designed to propel established WBE to the next level of growth and profits.
• By week 9, participants will have explored and removed money blocks, gained clarity on ways to solve their business challenges, and if they require capital, will be invited to craft a pitch deck for bankers, investors, or buyers.

Module I: Your Money Mindset

Explore how business decisions can be sabotaged or enhanced by our money beliefs. Increase confidence and overcome barriers to better financial management.

Module II: Basic Concepts of Accounting and Your Business Vitals: Deconstruct and Analyze Financial Statements

Understand your financials - balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement. Learn how they interrelate and what to focus on.

Module III: Key Business Principles and Applying That Knowledge to Grow

Gain a deeper understanding of the framework underpinning your business and map out a strategic sustainability plan. 

Module IV: Preparing the Pitch (optional) 

Create a compelling presentation to secure the capital required for a loan, equity, or sale of a business.

REGISTER BY FEBRUARY 15, 2024: https://bit.ly/wahine

The cohort is limited to 17 participants. 

Applicant pre-work

Step 1: Please fill out the Intake form using the link provided.

Step 2: We will then contact you with additional class survey and requirements, such as business registration and financial documents.

INFORMATION SESSION WITH MARIKO GORDON

Thursday, January 9, 2024 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. via Zoom

Mariko Gordon built a $2.5B money management firm from scratch, flying her freak flag high. It had a weird name, a non-Wall Street culture, and a quirky communication style.

In 1995, when Mariko founded Daruma, only a handful of women of color owned their firms. She had to noodle out how to run a business while daily duking it out with Mr. Market and raising a family.

Today she mentors women who want to start a business, turn their side hustle into their living, better manage their finances, or work through a tricky patch in life or business. She is also a poet, hypnotist, life coach, hula dancer, and Treasurer on the Board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

YWomen in Business – Accelerator is presented by the Enterprising Women of Color Business Center at the YWCA O`ahu. This program is for Hawaii-based businesses only.