Techstars DC Startup Week

Growth is critical to the future of your business, but doing so strategically and consistently can be one of the greatest challenges that startup founders face. In this workshop, we’ll chat about three critical growth areas: Retention, Viral Growth and Paid Growth. We’ll analyze successful strategies and share tangible, data-driven tools that you can immediately put to use to grow your business.

Join Black Female Founders (#BFF) as we discuss the holy grail for all startups - getting funding for your business! Attracting investors and securing capital does not have to be daunting quest or impossible for minority/diverse founders. In this provactive and interactive panel, our financing and investment experts will share their extensive expertise, on how to break through the wall of the mostly exclusive ‘investor club’.

During our panel we will discuss how to:
- Grow your network of investors and advisors
- Overcome any deficits to keep investors on board
-Develop alternative sources of funding
- Gage when best to reach out to investors
- Decide how much equity to give an investor
- And more...

Come hear and learn how to grow equity and build your business!

Let’s face it, the news lately has been a bit grim on the tech front. From Uber, GitHub, and even Google, tech inclusion is all over the news. It's about time we stopped talking about tech inclusion and do something about it. After years of creating more inclusive and diverse communities, Wetogethr has developed an immersive, hands-on workshop that lays out several steps for improving inclusion within organizations and startups.

In our workshop, we will tackle:
-How job descriptions determine the “types” of candidates who apply
- Why your company team page says way more than you think
- How to organically build pipelines to your organization to attract the best and the brightest talent
- How to retain and develop diverse talent in your organization

This is going to be the most ‘realest’ workshop you can take part in.