FounderFuego’s Impact Felt Three Months After Launch
Join FounderFuego in🎉🥂🎊🍻Our Wins Before the New Year
Our hearts are full with gratitude for our FounderFuego community. Learn how you can support our mission to empower Hispanic/Latinx, Afro-Latino/a, and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs with resources, grants, and knowledge in English and Spanish to build businesses, opportunity, wealth, economic mobility, and community.
Check out our impact in the few short months since our company was conceived. FounderFuego started as a dream in October, was born on November 27, 2023, and here we are on December 19 with a vision, the dream team, and passion meeting purpose.
Join us in reflecting on the impact we made in these short few months by leveraging our network, knowledge, and skills to run fast. We are an example of how to do it and we can help YOU do it too. Whether you are a new entrepreneur or an existing business owner, our team's experience, resources, NETWORK, and tools are here to support your mission, vision, and most importantly your business and professional growth and impact.
What could we have possibly done in three short months with a new company developing a new brand? Check this out, mi gente and get your cafecito, vino o cerveza ready to cheers together.
FounderFuego Milestones
We started by creating a Limited Liability Company (LLC), logo, branding, a website, created and launched the FounderFuel newsletter, launched social media channels in mid-November and organically went from “0” to this many in the FounderFuego community in just one month (you heard that right – ORGANICALLY, imagine the possibilities with ads and reels):
219 followers on FounderFuego's LinkedIn
32 FounderFuego FounderFuel Newsletter Subscribers
Sent six weekly FounderFuel editions (in case you missed any, check them out here)
84% average Open Rate
26% average Click Through Rate
20 followers on @founderfuego Instagram
6 followers on FounderFuego Facebook
Our goal is to increase these numbers by at least 3x every quarter. How are we going to do it? Our Chief Strategy Officer has developed an ironclad marketing strategy we are launching in January to drive traffic and volume to these channels to amplify our messaging and add value to our community.
Developed partnerships with:
Caravanserai Project (Inland Empire non-profit and for-profit business guidance provider in English y español)
Village Up (Supporting San Diego's diverse startup founders)
Identified diverse founders for inspiring stories in development for 2024 (FounderFuego’s Founder and CEO, Amber Tarrac, is a master storyteller - this is one of her favorite things)
Impact
FounderFuego was featured in 🎁 The New Tropic Holiday Gift Guide (FounderFuego's Chief Learning Officer, Richard Lopez is a Miami native and we are thrilled to offer resources and support to Miami entrepreneurs)
Supported the launch of new businesses:
Travel for Sunrise launched by FounderFuego's Chief Marketing Officer, Amber Butler
Conducted a grant searching and matching training for 81 for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs
Encouraged to assist Derrick L. Miles, FACHE CEO of CourMed, a concierge healthcare and wellness company, with a site selection search to support his company's expansion in California
Created a free Negotiating for Business Course and Toolkit (launching in January 2024)
Our ability to leverage our skills and experience to reach the greatest number of people to achieve the greatest impact is what drives us. We need your support talking about FounderFuego and amplifying our message and resources in the circles you run in.
We are grateful for all of the FounderFuego family that collectively light the fires of the diverse founders who power our communities. We invest in you, so you can invest your time and energy in growing your skills, your business, your network, your wealth, your legacy, and our community.
¡Dale! Let’s GO!
