Join us for Keystone Merge on October 6 in Lancaster. Hosted by Entrepreneurship at F&M and TAMID @ Franklin & Marshall College on Franklin & Marshall’s campus - in the The 1787 Room on College Square. Come support two local entrepreneurs as they share a 10-minute presentation about their business.
Keystone Merge is always the first Thursday of the month at 5pm.
Register to join us in person or on Facebook LIVE—
stream starts at 5:15pm, presentations start at 5:20pm.
HOSTED BY
Entrepreneurship at F&M and TAMID @ Franklin & Marshall College
FEATURED ENTRPRENEURS
Alexander Louderback
Founder of: Ambient Homes
Ambient Homes LLC is a startup business looking to power next generation smart home experiences. Ambient Home members get access to hardware that allows for universal compatibility and powerful automations, in addition to getting access to 24/7 support for all devices they own. Ambient Home is bringing on its first customers currently, but we are looking to rapidly expand B2C subscriptions and B2B installations into new homes.
Challenges: Ambient Home is looking to ensure and expand growth through new direct-to-consumer subscriptions and through business-to-business new home installations, all while keeping a low budget. With every new customer, the support requirement of the business raises since we provide 24/7 support. How do we keep a lean business model without hiring a huge support team while still being able to provide support for customers at scale? We currently run all support requests ourselves and have not hired any support team staff, and we wonder at what stage we should be looking to bring employees on.
Elyse Irvis
Founder of: BLACC By La Cultura
The USD stays in African American communities for 6 hours compared to 20 days in Jewish Communities and 14 days in Asian communities (endlessly in White communities). MWDBEs businesses fail at a disproportionate rate to their White competitors. BLACC is providing the technical assistance and social capital so that more MWDBEs start and last longer!
Challenges: When was the last time you purchased something from a Black owned business? Normalize spending in Black/Brown communities; replace your ritual spending with companies that are owned and operated locally by POC. Space owners - how can you creatively provide rental opportunities to Black creatives? Hiring processes. Are you in charge of your company talent pool? Hire a MWDBE freelancer! BLACC members are early-stage CEOs - Forbes 500 in 2030. You need them on your team. Their products could save your life!
AT THE EVENT
5:00pm
Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres
5:20pm
Welcome and Introductions
5:30pm
Entrepreneur #1: 10min pres. + 10min Q&A
5:50pm
Entrepreneur #2: 10min pres. + 10min Q&A
6:10pm
Networking
PARKING
The closest parking lot is Williamson Parking Lot (H) at 850 Harrisburg Ave, Lancaster, PA 17603. It is about a 5 minute walk to Benjamin Franklin Dining Hall from that lot. Additionally, there is free street parking all along College Avenue and surrounding streets.
PARTNERS
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