For us, minority and women business development means helping our purchasing departments find minority suppliers and vendors for products and services they're buying. The idea is that access to capital is one of the hardest things for small companies to achieve and even harder for a minority-owned company. The fair will put about 30 of the most promising companies in front of a powerful group of VCs in hopes of marriage. It includes a boot camp to provide coaching and scrubbing of business plans. We have that.
Diversity is on our list of values the company stands for.
You need your businesses to understand it's not only a good thing, but it is important to future growth. You need to think not only about a diverse workforce but a diverse market, customer base, and supplier base. All of that will affect the way the company is portrayed and achieves its goals. Woosh Inc. Woosh, an e-commerce software company in Sunnyvale, Calif., was founded in April, 1999. Garvin has eight managers on his team, including one white woman and three Latinas.