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

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."



CONNECT WITH JENNIFER 


oneKIN - www.onekin.co 
Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-gomez-72748224/ 



CONNECT WITH DANIELLE 


Danielle’s Website - https://www.daniellegillespie.net/ 
Connect with Danielle on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellegillespie/ 
Email Danielle - dg@daniellegillespie.net 
Medium: https://medium.com/@dgillespie_irl 
Send A Text: +1 (412) 207-3851 

Connect with Danielle to learn more about how the Ideas Last methodology can help you turn your product into a successful business venture, regardless of product stage: paper napkin, beta, V1, or established product already released into the wild. 



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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. 

Read more about the Ideas Last story - https://medium.com/@dgillespie_irl/ideas-last-a-new-way-to-startup-b94a585e35f5 

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