{"id":503059,"date":"2021-06-11T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/brit-co-launches-selfmade-season-four-in-collaboration-with-office-depot\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:05:33","slug":"brit-co-launches-selfmade-season-four-in-collaboration-with-office-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/brit-co-launches-selfmade-season-four-in-collaboration-with-office-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit + Co Launches Selfmade Season Four in Collaboration with Office Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brit + Co Launches Selfmade Season Four in Collaboration with Office Depot <\/b><\/p>\n

Virtual Startup School That Has Helped Female Entrepreneurs Launch Hundreds of Mission-Driven Companies Kicks Off Summer Session on Monday, June 28<\/i><\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO & BOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–
\nBrit + Co and Office Depot today announced that Office Depot will continue to provide opportunities for female entrepreneurs with the company\u2019s sponsorship of the fourth cohort of Selfmade<\/a>,Brit + Co\u2019s 10-week virtual startup school for women. The course is hosted by Brit + Co founder Brit Morin, with over a dozen other notable female founders, experts and investors signed on to help teach, including Katrina Lake (founder and CEO of Stich Fix), Toni Ko (founder of NYX), and Arlan Hamilton (founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital) and includes highly personalized skill development to enable each student to start or grow her own business.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo help drive educational change, Office Depot’s sponsorship<\/a> will enable the course to be made free for up to 200 women, focusing on women of color, women from underserved and underrepresented communities, and women in need of support to help them trailblaze.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe spring Selfmade session saw a number of mission-driven companies, with 17.7% of the students\u2019 brands dedicated to women\u2019s empowerment, 10.2% focused on mental health-related issues, and 5% addressing environmental issues.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe\u2019re happy to continue our collaboration with Brit + Co to help provide women an opportunity to turn their passion projects into businesses and take their existing businesses to new heights,\u201d said Wesley Brinkhurst, vice president of marketing for Office Depot. \u201cWe\u2019re so inspired by the participants\u2019 desires to change their own lives, as well as the lives of others, and encourage female entrepreneurs to register for the next Selfmade program session to help make their dreams a reality.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe women of the last cohort were incredibly dedicated to facilitating positive change, founding and growing companies that are both improving the world and improving their lives–from helping to treat mental health, to making the world safer for women, to supporting working moms,\u201d said Morin. \u201cAfter the difficulty of the past year and a half, they still took a leap of faith and signed up for Selfmade, and with the support of our group and one-on-one coaching, inspiration and advice from our guest teachers, they have hustled their way to finding their passions, launching companies, and earning revenue. I have been so impressed by the drive and ambition of our alumni.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nOffice Depot-sponsored student Jhanelle Elissa founded Jiive, a new type of events platform for real-life community & live experiences born out of the isolation she felt during the pandemic as someone living on her own. She recognized that others were also struggling with their mental health during this challenging time, and Jiive was born out of this, as a way to connect people through live events.\n<\/p>\n

\n“My hope in signing up for this course was to gain a sense of community with fellow entrepreneurs who were also in the early stages of founding their companies and also to learn about new funding resources to explore,\u201d said Elissa. \u201cThe ladies running Selfmade were not only so generous with their time and supportive, but also transparent and provided a realistic view of the entrepreneurship journey. I’m excited to continue building my company and bringing these newfound connections and relationships into this next phase of getting my \u2018big vision venture\u2019 off the ground.”\n<\/p>\n

\nFeatures and benefits of Selfmade include:\n<\/p>\n