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Vested is proud to partner with our friends at 33 Artists Market to present “Night Out with the Artists" - a mini art gala + market, networking, and artist speed dating extravaganza! Featuring 33 female-identifying, local, professional artists with a passion for sharing arts across the Inland NW community. Enjoy tasty treats from Wonder Building favorites Victory Burger and Uno Mas, live music, and photobooth fun with our favorite Electric Photoland. Drinks will be available for purchase, with all proceeds from our signature cocktail, the “Hat’s Off,” going to local non-profit Ladies Wine & Design Spokane. Take home a special Vested x 33 Artists Market tote filled with unique items from our featured artists - each bag is different! Get your tickets now at https://lnkd.in/g4UQJSVq

Only a handful of tickets remain for our April Workshop! 🎟️✨ Ready to level-up your social media game? Join us for a no-fluff, down and dirty social media strategy workshop with Spokane’s own Millie Schnebly, co-founder of Maker + Made. Learn what actually works in today’s social networking landscape and how to develop a realistic and effective plan for you and your business. https://lnkd.in/gMbP582g

✨SO excited to release tickets for our March Workshop on Monday!✨ With our February event sold out, this will be the next opportunity to connect with the women of Vested, all while learning the many ways to ensure your business is legally legit. From contracts to website disclaimers, giveaway rules and the basics of setting up your biz, The Legal Paige is an expert on all things small business law! This will be a fantastic learning opportunity for both new entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners. Plus, Vested has an exciting to new partnership to announce in 2024! Set your alarms - tickets will go on sale Monday, February 19th🚨 #sheisvested #vestedspokane #womeninbusiness #spokanesmallbusiness #spokanewomeninbusiness

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Just two years after joining chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices in 2012, IBM veteran Lisa Su was tapped to take the top job. It was a big promotion for the then 43-year-old, but also a gamble. At the time, the company was floundering. It had laid off around a quarter of its staff and its share price hovered around $2. Patrick Moorhead, a former AMD exec, remembers it as “deader than dead.” On her second day as CEO, Su stepped up to the microphone during an all-hands call with a message for AMD’s demoralized employees: “I believe that we can build the best,” she told her staff. That message was also step one in her three-pronged plan to fix AMD: Create great products, deepen customer trust and simplify the company. “Three things, just to keep it simple,” she told Forbes in May as part of an in-depth interview. “Because if it’s five or ten, it’s hard.” Su, who first fell in love with semiconductors while at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, refocused her engineers on building Intel-beating chips. It took a while, but the Taiwan-born engineer’s bet eventually paid off. In less than a decade, she turned the struggling company into a darling of the chip industry–and a $271 billion (market capitalization) enterprise. Read more: https://trib.al/zG66fYc

The number of businesses owned by Black women grew 50% from 2014 to 2019, representing the highest growth rate of any female demographic. Black females accounted for 42% of all women who opened a new business during that time and represented 36% of all Black employers. Despite this increase, Black female founders earn an average revenue of just $24,000, compared to $142,900 among all women-owned businesses. Black business owners who apply for funding have a rejection rate that is three times higher than that of White business owners. These are just a handful of free resources to aid our community in supporting Black, women-owned businesses all year long. Did I miss any great resources you know of? Source: J.P. Morgan Chase, 2023