Jennifer Gomez is a tech founder and public speaker from Brooklyn, NY. Throughout her professional and entrepreneurial career, she’s helped innumerable brands and startups leverage data-led strategy and creative storytelling to launch products and build authentic relationships with their consumers.

Today, she is Co-Founder & CMO of oneKIN Inc., a mission-driven, retail-tech company powering the future of e-commerce for small businesses. From their award-winning curated e-commerce marketplace for diverse retailers to our soon-to-launch livestream shopping app, oneKIN live, they are hyper-focused on providing small businesses tech-enabled solutions to increase their visibility and grow sustainably.

In addition to scaling oneKIN, she is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs of color, women, small businesses, and tech professionals around the country via workshops, panels, and various on/off-air speaking engagements.

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE EPISODE

01:17 How oneKIN came about as a company
12:42 How to get started on your entrepreneurial journey
17:16 Consistently getting feedback from your customers
20:54 Forming a partnership with MasterCard
28:11 Where most founders typically go wrong
35:40 What’s next on the horizon for Jennifer

GOLDEN NUGGET FROM TODAY’S SHOW

Jennifer says, “Most entrepreneurs think that everything has to be perfect when you launch. The first iteration of your product is not going to be perfect. And that's part of the process. The journey of those future optimizations is what's beautiful."

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oneKIN - www.onekin.co
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ABOUT THE IDEAS LAST PODCAST

It has long been said that ideas are everything, especially in the startup world. But what if having a laser focus on your idea can actually hold your business back? In the Ideas Last podcast, Danielle Gillespie interviews startup founders, whose success came from obsessively, focusing on execution instead of ideation. Each episode dissects what it actually takes to build a long-lasting profitable startup, rather than simply launching - by putting your idea, last.

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Building A Community-Based Tech Startup - Jennifer Gomez, CEO of oneKIN