thank you so much for watching, for all the lovely comments and the support to get us this far! i've added timestamps below to breakdown this hefty video & so you can watch the parts that most interest you. let me know if you have any questions or content requests and i'll do my best to get to them! 8:30 - Title Slide 10:22 - Founder Insight 11:53 - Founder’s Previous Ventures 13:12 - Key Business Statistics 14:36 - The Brand Story 19:12 - Sustainability 21:55 - Inclusivity & Diversity 24:28 - Market Size 24:50 - The Team 27:28 - The Business’s Timeline 28:31 - Social Engagement Statistics 29:19 - Testimonials 30:16 - Brand Partnerships 30:31 - Ambassador Program 31:37 - Competitors 36:35 - Global Market Potential 38:22 - The Unique Opportunity 46:05 - How did you know it was the right time to raise capital? 48:41 - How did you find the right people for the round? 54:48 - How did you manage your time, raising the round while also running the business? 56:46 - Hardest financial questions you were asked? 57:27 - What qualities were you looking for in potential investors?
Don't follow it, raising money is not what real entrepreneurs do, it's a scam, sweatshop products, overpriced and overvalued. Just look at the debt wework are in now
Currently going after funding for my biz and learning all their is to know about the world of VC and every couple of weeks I come back to this video to see how much Ive learned/now understand ☺
That comment made me laugh! Girl, your vids are not boring. I'm a business owner too and I feel like my vlogs are boring too but its really the reality of our day-to-day.
This video came at the perfect time. I’m currently raising a $2M pre-seed round and we are starting the fundraising process. I’m anticipating a long journey, but this really helped hearing your thoughts going through it and how I related to it so much. Your content is 🔥🔥🔥
I am the furthest from being business savvy but I would trust you with my money. The numbers and stats are impressive - sure but I don't know much about that. But the competence, integrity, passion and confidence you exude when talking business ... That's something even I can pick up. Your success is impressive but not surprising to me in the least. You are so deserving!
ok this was literally the most interesting thing on RU-vid right now and i knew nothing about pitch decks until this video. you’re incredible Grace ~ your passion beams through and the way you articulate what you’re saying is really fascinating. You deserve every ounce of your success 🌍 🌷✨
Unbelievable transparency and honesty, so refreshing in a sector filled with trade secrets. I remember watching your videos years ago! Congratulations on everything!
I would love to hear more about how you choose new team members for TALA. Do you have a unique interview process, or is it more traditional? What stands out to you on a resume? etc. Hearing your perspective on that side of business as you’ve shifted from influencer to CEO would be awesome
I'm only 15 mins into this but I'm so excited to watch the rest! I work in a small startup and I've been editing our pitch deck for like 1.5 years and we're finally ready to start getting serious about talking to investors!
This is gold Grace, thank you! It has been so lovely seeing the business and you grow throughout this process! Thank you for your transparency and wealth of insights as always!! 💖☺️ and a massive congratulations!! ☺️🎉
I started Shreddy in January and absolutely love it!! Thank you so much for changing so many lives! I got shreddy dumbbells resistance bands, protein and daily dose which are all exceptional!! Thank you so much 💕✨
I truly think you bring such a poise and confidence to your business and the way you present it. Congrats on the success and thank you for so much transparency on the business side!
I watched this till the very end and I'll be rewatching it. Thank you so so so much for this transparency, you'll continue to succeed because of your integrity and kindness. God bless you!
this could've been a master class. i've been watching your videos again these past few days and I love how educational, yet entertaining you make them. not to mention inspiring! I work in the environmental field and I'd love to hear more details on what sustainability best practices you focus on in manufacturing/shipping. p.s. love the sweater vest
Amazing, Thanks Grace for sharing this invaluable video and taking the time to go through every single section in detail!!! Learning so much, and can't believe the low % of seed funding for women.
THANK YOU for sharing this. It's only in seeing this that I realise how little of this there is around - young entrepreneurs sharing what they do with a view to transparency and helping others in their own ventures. Always here for this content👌
Hi Grace! I am so over the moon that you are back on RU-vid! ❤️❤️ I miss your old videos so much because I relate to your mindset and I love where you were at in life, because I love the education/university experience. I wanting to let you know how much help I got from your old videos about your time management during university, how you did your dissertation and how you organized your work. I wanted to ask if you would ever be willing to repost/make your old videos public again? I know there may be many reasons you have not made them available to watch on your channel anymore. And whatever reasons you have for that I completely understand. I just wanted to see if you may consider it in the future or if you would ever be able to do it in the first place (if the videos were deleted and cannot be retrieved). Lots of love! ❤️
I am currently writing my dissertation on sustainability within the sportswear industry and I am using TALA as one of my examples- this video was so informative and useful! Thank you for producing such educational content
Thank you for sharing Grace! As a business student this pitch deck is one of the most educational pieces I have seen that applies the concepts and theory’s I am learning in class about an industry and business I am passionate about. I love the transparency, you are a true inspiration to women in business 🏋️
I love this content! Thank you for sharing!! I’ve been following for years and watching the journey of TALA, I’ve become much more interested in sustainable fashion as well as more mindful about my purchases and personal habits. So grateful that you’re challenging this industry and teaching all of your followers along the way. Can’t wait to see the amazing change you bring to this world.
THANK YOU for sharing something so genuinely useful. Just starting on my funding bids for a grass roots charity myself and my pals have worked on and I can't wait to get into this.
If you are at this stage of a business than this will work great! But for those who need startup money to even start (hiring a team) and who are not already an influencer, then pull from your experience in your field and know your target market very well! Also, have in mind on who you want to bring on board to join your team etc.
Loved every minute of this! Do I have a business to fund? No, do I want to be an entrepreneur? Not necessarily, but this was such fantastic insight into quite a mystical world, thank you!
Not that you need to, but I truly appreciate how you continue to emphasize your privilege and leg up even being part of a marginalized group (women entrepreneurs). Although I think you’re a bad ass ALL AROUND its wonderful to see someone also remain transparent in the crude reality of business funding etc.
Amazing deck! Boss power! Would love to see more diversity in the leadership board but its your company so you can obviously do what you want. Good luck.
Not surprised! Every entrepreneur should go into business to include as much diverse as possible! It’s very important. Not as props to generate revenue 🙄 enough of that!
Hey Grace! Can you please make a video about essential steps you went through to launch your first brand? I have no idea where to start as a 19 year old full time working and soon to be uni student and I feel absolutely stuck in my situation right now. It would be incredibly helpful! Honestly watching your videos and podcasts is what's been giving me inspiration and motivation lately :)
Thank you SO much for this Grace - I've always wondered how people raise investment (it feels so opaque) and can tell from the comments that I'm not the only one, so this is so interesting/exciting/useful/needed etc etc haha. Love that when you say transparency, you really mean it.x
First of all - a MASSIVE congrats! Well deserved! But also, it's amazing how you could chat about a topic for more than an hour and make it sounds SO interesting 😆 I am a 33 year old who has studied and worked in sciences all my life but would like to change career path - move into marketing. I'm hoping to do so without it having a big hit to my pay as I can't afford that. Do you have any tips or golden nuggets you can share given that you previous studied music so essentialy made that jump too and now have great insight in the marketing industry?
I almost didn’t watch this but I’m really glad I did as I prepare a pitch deck. As a brand also focused in sustainability and regeneration as core principles it was really valuable content and inspiration.
I’m starting a small business and even though it’s more of selling services. I’ve been spending so many months learning so much and your videos are so helpful.
Grace! I have SO much respect for you. Not sure I can articulate how much, but watching your journey over the last 5+ years has been truly inspiring (to say the least). As for global expansion - 1000% yes! I absolutely love your products, however I live in Trinidad & Tobago so in order to get any products I have to order them to my skybox in the US, then they get shipped to Trinidad - which means it becomes financially inaccessible and at that point the footprint is massive! And lastly, thank you so much for content like this 🔥🔥🔥 and for your transparency in attempts to lift other women up. 🤝
This is so awesome - I just startet working as a performance marketing manager and just try to dive deeper into the business world . I loved your book and just seeing you growing your business an being on top of all these things at Such a young age is so inspiring ✨
Yes! As a business owner who is a woman of color the funding opportunities…smh just…there’s much prayer and a lot of hard work. You sort of just have the mindset “we’ll get what we need on our own” because there’s so many fights for what should just come to us, even when we have proof of success, there’s pushback. So kudos to you for sticking to it and pressing on.
Please put some more time into your Shreddy app. It is so glitchy and the entire discussion section is constantly talking about all the problems with it yet you keep rolling out new challenges. So shady
Thank you so much for this! Would you be willing to share how much stake you gave away in your company? Also, it'd be so helpful if you could do a video explaining how you pitched your deck (like reading slides vs saying something different than what's on the slides), and did you do this whole funding round virtually or in person?
I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Mrs Kimberly. I think she is the best broker I ever seen
Thanks for introducing me to Mrs Kimberly. My first investment with Mrs Kimberly gave me profit of over $24,000 us dollars and ever since then she has never failed to deliver and I can even say she's the most sincere broker I have known
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Fair play eh you wanted something you made it happen. I'm 34 single dude big investor myself a business few properties etc love travelling the world nothing beats it. Anyway congrats Grace on all achievements stay well & safe be blessed.
hopefully you have looked at the story of outdoor voices. I think it is entirely possible for that type of situation to happen to you. Wishing you luck and a huge congrats.
So I even travelled to LA for LA Tech Week and didn’t get a single positive investor interaction 😅 no commitments :/ so..😅 don’t know what I’m going to do
I live in France and ordered once from TALA, I had to pay 50€ of taxes when the package which sucked I would love for you to expand to France (or anywhere else in Europe) to avoid having to pay taxes due to Brexit
