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Is Working On Your Business Taking Up Way Too Much Of Your Time? Join NYPACE’s Community Entrepreneurs
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Flagship Program
Embark on your exciting journey through our Flagship entrepreneur advising program, a results-driven model unlike any other offered by an entrepreneur organization in NYC. In this exciting, empowering, and educational cohort, you’ll receive entrepreneur resources, business mentorship, and accountability over eight weeks.
Our pro bono advisors, recruited from top NYC firms, will shepherd you through creating hyper-targeted, high-impact solutions to real-life issues in your business. Get the benefits of their elite skill set, gain encouragement from a peer cohort, and join a positively focused professional community.
During the program, your business advising team will meet with you frequently via calls, emails, Zoom, and in person. Together, you will create and tackle a structured, time-driven plan for your project scope, which will solve one of your high-priority challenges. You’ll also have the opportunity during the program to brainstorm your challenge with the other community entrepreneurs in your cohort.
If you’re a community entrepreneur operating a small business in NYC’s metro area and are ready to take the next step, apply to join the next cohort today. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Embark on your exciting journey through our Flagship entrepreneur advising program, a results-driven model unlike any other offered by entrepreneur organizations in NYC. In this exciting, empowering, and educational cohort, you’ll receive entrepreneur resources, business mentors, and accountability over an eight-week period.
Our pro bono advisors, recruited from top NYC firms, will shepherd you through creating hyper-targeted, high-impact solutions to real-life issues in your business. Get the benefits of their elite skill set, gain encouragement from a peer cohort, and join a positively focused professional community. Read More
Sprints Program
NYPACE periodically hosts Sprints, which are currently offered by invitation.
During each Sprint, you, the entrepreneur, are paired with a team of 1-4 pro bono advisors, which encompasses your Sprint team. For one day, during a 3-5 hour project, you work together to generate new ideas and solve your strategic goals in finance, strategy, operations, or legal matters.
Sprints are hosted virtually or in-person at locations across NYC and other target markets.
Corporations interested in hosting Sprints with their employees in a day of service should visit our Partners page here.
Workshops For Entrepreneurs
Understand Financial Statements at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Strategic Business Planning at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Friday, May 3, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Build Credit and Navigate Credit Reports at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Strategies for Successful Loan Applications at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
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Understand Financial Statements at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Strategic Business Planning at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Friday, May 3, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Build Credit and Navigate Credit Reports at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Strategies for Successful Loan Applications at NCRC’s Free Webinar
Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Our Partners
Success Stories
Shakeemah Suber
From the moment the NYPACE team connected with Shakeemah Suber in 2022, we saw her dedication to her craft and knew she’d make an ideal entrepreneur for our program. Since starting her business, Get Incognito Hair Studio, Shakeemah had outgrown her space, serving 35-40 clients a week. NYPACE and Shakeeemah’s volunteer team supported Get Incognito by conducting a thorough financial analysis of the business, both to apply for financing in the future and to help Shakeemah with day-to-day operations.
1st
Full-Time Hire
As of the end of 2023, Shakeemah was able to hire her first full-time employee to join her three part-time employees.
1st
Expansion Plan
Shakeemah bought Znode to help her company expand. It tracks payroll, KPIs and more. Her next goal is to find a larger space.
Yudelka “Yudy” Carrera
Yudelka “Yudy” Carrera is well known to the NYPACE community. Her energy and enthusiasm for her business, for life, and for NYPACE are infectious and inspiring. She spent 17 years at a catering company before starting Events by Yudy, a full-service events and catering company, in 2015. After Yudy joined the fall 2021 cohort, her team built a detailed financial model, including revenue, costs, and profitability by business segment.
3x
Revenue Growth
“With my profitability model, I know what to charge. When a customer asks for a lower price, I say, ‘Hold on, let me see if I can go that low.’ The tool is so clever. I learned when to say no.”
Not only does Yudy feel more confident in saying no, she also learned when to say yes, which has led to her surpassing her pre-pandemic revenue.
Daphany Rose Sanchez
Daphany Rose Sanchez is the founder of Kinetic Communities Consulting, a certified B Corp which advocates for and implements energy equity market transformations for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers. When we met Daphany in 2021, she was operating her business project by project. Working with a volunteer team from JPMorgan Chase, she built a consolidated financial statement and a scenario analysis to forecast cash flows, which identified funds needed for both business investments and future liquidity needs.
2x
Revenue Growth
The company has doubled its revenue from the year prior, with new government contracts and a holistic financial picture of the firm.
5
New Hires
As of the end of 2022, Daphany now oversees 14 full-time and 3 part-time staff members, with additional plans to hire in the near future.
Melissa Shea
Melissa Shea is a fashion directory that connects industry entrepreneurs and professionals around the world. Melissa Shea had goals of building a one-stop B2B SaaS platform to connect members to jobs, resources, and opportunities that could help their businesses grow. After sitting with Melissa’s business, the NYPACE team identified a few key areas of growth, including hiring an engineering team to build a mobile app as a top priority, which Melissa did. The team also provided a critical review of her pitch deck to get new investors in Fashion Mingle.
10K
Users
In 2023 Melissa hit a huge milestone – 10,000 users. She launched her new platform in 2024.
$100K
Equity Investment
With a promising new platform in place, Melissa’s initial angel investor increased their commitment by another $100,000.
Sulaiman “Su” Sanni
Sulaiman “Su” Sanni was no stranger to working in tech; he had already spent over 10 years at tech-related startups. So it’s no surprise that when the time came to address the long-ignored problem of flexible transit options in areas underserved by the NYC subway system, he turned to tech for a solution. Su’s company Dollaride is a cashless transport option and ride locator app to grow the commuter van network in the Bronx and beyond. Su joined the spring 2021 cohort, where his volunteer team conducted market research on alternative business models and cost structures as a response to pandemic uncertainty and concluded that increasing profit margins was the best strategy.
40%
Revenue Growth
Profit margins grew alongside a 40% increase in revenue compared to
the year before the project.
40%
Revenue Growth
Since the project, Dollaride raised $800,000 in capital from
investors and was awarded a $10 million contract from New York.
Joyce Osan
Joyce Osan and her husband Olu Osanyingbemi operate Sunshine Environment Solutions, an environmental consulting company in NYC. When Joyce joined Olu at the company in 2020 to focus on operations and finance, she quickly realized that her husband’s firm had grown to a point where it needed additional tools to support growth. The NYPACE volunteer team built a contract bid model that gave the owners the ability to test various pricing and cost assumptions when putting together a bid. The goal of the model was to help Joyce and Olu more quickly see the impact of changes on contract margins, plus speed the processing of bids, increasing the capacity for growth.
$1 million
Contract Awarded
Just after the project closed, the team used the bid model to win a $1 million contract with the NY Department of Homeless Services, their largest contract to date.
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From the moment the NYPACE team connected with Shakeemah Suber in 2022, we saw her dedication to her craft and knew she’d make an ideal entrepreneur for our program. Since starting her business, Get Incognito Hair Salon, Shakeemah had outgrown her space, serving 35-40 clients a week. NYPACE and Shakeeemah’s volunteer team supported Get Incognito by conducting a thorough financial analysis of the business, both to apply for financing in the future and to help Shakeemah with day-to-day operations.
As of the end of 2023, Shakeemah was able to hire her first full-time employee to come alongside with her three part-time employees.
Yudelka “Yudy” Carrera is well known to the NYPACE community. Her energy and enthusiasm for her business, for life, and for NYPACE are infectious and inspiring. She spent 17 years at a catering company before starting Events by Yudy, a full-service events and catering company, in 2015. After Yudy joined the fall 2021 cohort, her team built a detailed financial model, including revenue, costs, and profitability by business segment.
“With my profitability model, I know what to charge. When a customer asks for alower price, I say, ‘Hold on, let me see if I can go that low.’ The tool is so clever. I learned when to say no.”
Daphany Rose Sanchez is the founder of Kinetic Communities Consulting, a certified B Corp which advocates for and implements energy equity market transformations for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers. When we met Daphany in 2021, she was operating her business project by project. Working with a volunteer team from JPMorgan Chase, she built a consolidated financial statement and a scenario analysis to forecast cash flows, which identified funds needed for both business investments and future liquidity needs.
The company has doubled its revenue from the year prior, with new
government contracts and a holistic financial picture of the firm.
Melissa Shea is a fashion directory that connects industry entrepreneurs and professionals around the world. Melissa Shea had goals of building a one-stop B2B SaaS platform to connect members to jobs, resources, and opportunities that could help their businesses grow. After sitting with Melissa’s business, the NYPACE team identified a few key areas of growth, including hiring an engineering team to build a mobile app as a top priority, which Melissa did. The team also provided a critical review of her pitch deck to get new investors in Fashion Mingle.
In 2023 Melissa hit a huge milestone – 40,000 users. She launched her new platform in 2024.
Sulaiman “Su” Sanni was no stranger to working in tech; he had already spent over 10 years at tech-related startups. So it’s no surprise that when the time came to address the long-ignored problem of flexible transit options in areas underserved by the NYC subway system, he turned to tech for a solution. Su’s company Dollaride is a cashless transport option and ride locator app to grow the commuter van network in the Bronx and beyond. Su joined the spring 2021 cohort, where his volunteer team conducted market research on alternative business models and cost structures as a response to pandemic uncertainty and concluded that increasing profit margins was the best strategy.
Profit margins grew alongside a 40% increase in revenue compared to
the year before the project.
Joyce Osan and her husband Olu Osanyingbemi operate Sunshine Environment Solutions, an environmental consulting company in NYC. When Joyce joined Olu at the company in 2020 to focus on operations and finance, she quickly realized that her husband’s firm had grown to a point where it needed additional tools to support growth. The NYPACE volunteer team built a contract bid model that gave the owners the ability to test various pricing and cost assumptions when putting together a bid. The goal of the model was to help Joyce and Olu more quickly see the impact of changes on contract margins, plus speed the processing of bids, increasing the capacity for growth.
Just after the project closed, the team used the bid model to win a $1 million contract with the NY Department of Homeless Services,
their largest contract to date.
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