For A Dozen Cousins’ founder Ibraheem Basir, food is inextricably linked with family. “Food was always a really big deal in my household,” he said. “Food was what brought us together at the end of the days. It’s also the way we celebrated; it’s the way we marked different milestones.”
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HIS NAME’S NOT JACK, BUT HE’S FINDING BUSINESS SUCCESS WITH BEANS
Entrepreneur Ibraheem Basir has elevated the humble legume to build a burgeoning beans business. Basir is the CEO and founder of A Dozen Cousins, which offers slow-simmered beans influenced by black and Latino cuisines.
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BUSINESS PITCH CHALLENGE FINALIST’S ADVICE TO BLACK ENTREPRENEURS: DON’T BOTHER WITH VENTURE CAPITALISTS
According to data released by Small Business Trends, only 40% of small businesses are profitable and the start-up failure rate increases each year — what’s the problem? Money. Statistics show that every four out of five businesses fail because of cash-flow problems.
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NUDEST Joins Forces with Algo Face
At NUDEST, our mission is to change the standard of beauty worldwide to match the full range of diversity in everyone’s skin. Since founding the company during my final semester at Harvard Business School, we have worked to achieve this mission by launching NUDEMETER: the first-ever skin tone matching computer vision technology for the fashion […]
Read moreThis Woman’s Artificial Intelligence Is Making Foundation More Inclusive 1 Brand At A Time
Atima Lui has a very deep, rich skin tone. As she tells me over the phone on a scorching July afternoon, her father was a South Sudanese refugee, which attributes to her skin’s depth and undertone. “My skin tone comes from East Africa near the Nile River,” she states proudly.
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Inclusivity and diversity are the answer to bias-free AI in smart beauty technology
Atima Lui, the Chief Marketing Officer and Dr. Taleb Alashkar, CTO and Co-Founder, of AlgoFace, told The Sociable that inclusivity and bias control are the new vision of AlgoFace.
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Applying inclusivity to brush away bias in the digital beauty industry
A woman of color applying inclusivity to bias-prone AI in the industry of digital beauty – how hard can it be?
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been under criticism for its lack of diversity emanating from gender and racial bias. What if an AI-based company were run by a diverse population?
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Entrepreneurs redefining “nude” fashion for women
Finding the right shade of clothing or makeup that matches the skin tone can be a challenge for women. But two recent Harvard Business School graduates, working from their kitchen table, are hoping to change how the retail industry sees and sells to women of all skin colors.
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