by Lynnette Najimy | Sep 4, 2022 | Classes, Cohort, Consortium, Events, Our History, Program Update, Small Business Fair, Small Business Start-Up
August 2022 Prototype Fair Our Board of Directors outlined the Six Tenets of $1000 Start-Ups at the 2022 Prototype Fair $1000 Start-Ups Prototype Fairs are an essential experience for our Cohort as they learn all aspects of business operations. This event, as in... 
by Leah Ward Lee | May 14, 2022 | Cohort, Consortium, Our History, Program Update, Small Business Start-Up
As we start our third year I thought I’d share reflections on our journey so far and let you know what’s new for 2022 and what we’re working on.
by Leah Ward Lee | Feb 14, 2021 | Events, Our History, Program Update, Small Business Start-Up
Early Saturday morning on November 21st, board members from The $1,000 Start-Ups Consortium were on the move preparing for the final event for the class of 2020. The program, launched in April 2020, promotes economic opportunity by providing entrepreneurship and... by Leah Ward Lee | Nov 5, 2020 | Our History, Small Business Start-Up
For more than twenty years Leah Ward-Lee, a successful management consultant, boarded a plane every Sunday night, flew to a distant city, spent the week working at a client site and flew home on Friday. Five nights a week in a hotel room gave her a lot of time...