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Some come for the birria torta or the chicken-bacon-alfredo torta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A line of customers winds its way around the side of his tent as meat sizzles on the grills. On the other side of the mesh, Osornio and his crew pack and stack toasted buns as fast as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when Osornio, who is Mexican American, was contemplating launching Tortas Al 100, he knew one thing: He didn’t want to apply for a loan. Osornio had racked up “about $30,000” in credit card debt as a teenager and when life smacked him in the face in his early 20s, he got serious about paying it down and fixing his credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Osornio owns Tortas Al 100 in Salinas. \u003ccite>(Kate Cimini/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That experience, he said, was what prompted him to forgo applying for a small business loan. Instead, Osornio estimated he and his wife spent at least $50,000 of their salaries on the burgeoning business, including food, four grills, a tent and more during its first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino small business owners like Osornio are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S., even as they battle systemic racism that has resulted in lower incomes and loan rates. Over the past 10 years, the number of Latino business owners grew 34%, compared to 1% for all business owners in the United States, according to a recent study from Stanford University. And more Latinos than ever are applying for small business loans to launch or grow their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Becoming an Economic Force\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The growing success of Latino small business owners comes as Latinos are increasingly becoming an economic force in the U.S. The same Stanford study found Latino-owned businesses contributed about $500 billion to the economy in annual sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2019 report to Congress based on data from 2017 found almost 60 million Latinos in the United States already account for $2.3 trillion in economic activity in total, which on its own would rank as the eighth largest economy in the world. And Latinos are projected to make up 30% of the U.S. population by 2020, meaning the group’s contributions are likely to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino-owned businesses employ more than 3 million people, the 2019 State of Latino Entrepreneurship report by the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), a Stanford University research initiative centered around Latinos in business, found. All told, Latino-owned businesses account for about 4% of U.S. business revenues and 5.5% of U.S. employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Latino-owned companies remain smaller than white-owned firms, averaging only $1.2 million in revenue compared with $2.3 million brought in by a white-owned company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a problem, said Jerry Porras, a professor of organizational behavior and change emeritus at Stanford Business School, co-founder of the Latino Business Action Network, a nonprofit out of Stanford University focused on empowering Latino business owners, and co-director of SLEI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s really a positive story when you look at Latino businesses across the country,” said Porras. “The number is smaller as a base but its growing very rapidly. Latinos are oriented towards starting businesses and are doing it at a significant rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Latino-owned employer firms were given the same chances, Porras said, they would generate an additional $4 billion in revenue and 1 million jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Younger Than Other Entrepreneurs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., Latinos are represented in all the major industry sectors, owning businesses in manufacturing, education, health services, finance, construction and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino business owners tend to be younger than non-Latino business owners. Roughly 33% of Latino entrepreneurs are younger than 45, compared to just 22% of non-Latino entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For every 100,000 Latino adults in the United States, on average 510 became entrepreneurs each month in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, research by the \u003ca href=\"https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/24590/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute on Assets and Social Policy\u003c/a>, an institute that studies economic opportunities for people of color, evidences that historic disenfranchisement of people of color has led to those very people having less generational wealth than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, policies that favor the affluent have continued to widen the gap, particularly between white families and black or Latino families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the income gap between blacks and whites closed somewhat between 1970 to 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/11/who-is-hispanic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hispanics\u003c/a> fell even further behind at all income levels, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/12/key-findings-on-the-rise-in-income-inequality-within-americas-racial-and-ethnic-groups/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research Center think tank\u003c/a> found in 2018. Even top-earning Hispanics earned only 65% as much as whites in 2016, down from 74% in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, on average, continue to make lower salaries than white people, research out of Stanford showed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, this combination means Latinos typically have lower credit scores, which, in turn, can mean higher interest rates or being turned down for loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report submitted to the \u003ca href=\"https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-116-ba00-wstate-brownj-20190226.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. House Financial Services Committee in 2019\u003c/a> by UnidosUS, a nonpartisan think tank focused on the Hispanic community, banks originally had loan officers who determined the “trustworthiness” of a loan applicant. As such, people of color were often discriminated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following decades, banks lost their loan officers to the war effort, and soon invented credit scores as a stand-in. However, these, too, had their issues as they were built on longstanding disparities and have resulted in communities of color, young adults, people with low income and immigrants having disproportionately low credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/publication-pdf/slei-report-2018-latino-owned-businesses-shinging-light-national-trends.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 Small Business Credit Study\u003c/a> by the Federal Reserve Banks, of applicants denied credit, 45% of Latino applicants were denied for insufficient credit history and 37% were denied for having too low a credit score. (Applicants could choose more than one response.) In comparison, white applicants were turned away at rates of 33% and 26% for the same reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Latino story in some ways follows the story of why black families have less wealth than white people today,” said Urban Institute research fellow Steven Brown. “There is a lack of the same kind of resources that help build wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown cited restricted access to homeownership under policies such as “redlining” as a primary way Latinos were kept from building generational wealth. For decades, black and Latino neighborhoods were unfairly deemed too risky for loans and mortgages through redlining. That left people in those neighborhoods reliant on speculators or private sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Latinos have been able to buy homes, they have historically been relegated to neighborhoods where the homes didn’t have as much value so they’re unable to build as much wealth and pass it on,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more recent years, as Latinos have become more prominent in U.S. culture, their economic standing is also rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.biz2credit.com/research-reports/latino-small-business-study-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 study\u003c/a> of 61,000 small-business loan applications submitted to Biz2Credit’s online marketplace found that the number of credit applications from Latino-owned businesses rose 23% from 2018 to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Outpacing US Economy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>And over the last year, Latino-owned businesses reported an average revenue growth of 14%, outpacing the growth of the U.S. economy, the Stanford report showed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While revenues climbed, though, the average credit scores of Latino business owners dipped to 588 from 594 last year, according to Biz2Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Biz2Credit’s CEO, Rohit Arora, that could indicate business owners are using personal credit cards to fund their business growth if their companies did not qualify for loans. Furthermore, cost management can be difficult for young businesses, which may factor into the dip in scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When credit scores are less than 600, it is hard to get traditional bank loans,” Arora said in the report his firm released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porras said the lack of credit can force Latino business owners to make riskier financial decisions, such as relying on personal credit cards to grow their business, or taking out a loan on their accounts receivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By and large, I think Latinos are very unsuccessful in securing loans from the more professional sources,” said Porras. “It’s the smaller ones that are hurting the most,” added Porras, referencing business size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, Latino borrowers may be less trusting of financial institutions as a whole, based either on past experiences or a general understanding of systemic racism by lending institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos have to pay more for interest,” said Fausta Ibarra, 59, who owns her own hair salon, Tropical Cuts, in Salinas, California. “We have to pay more for everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra, who calls herself a “cien por ciento,” or 100%, Mexican woman, herself had poor credit, after issues with a house she and her sisters bought together in the early 1990s. When she applied for a loan in 1993 to open her hair salon, a brightly lit salon tucked into a small strip mall in Salinas, Washington Mutual Bank denied the loan. (The bank collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ended up borrowing nearly $30,000 from friends, family and coworkers, slowly paying them back one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when Ibarra tried to purchase a home in 1996, her low credit still held her back. There was, however, another way, the realtor told her. Ibarra ended up paying more than the house was on the market for, and she had to borrow from friends and family so she could put down a deposit of $10,000, twice what she was prepared to pay out of pocket. Ibarra felt taken advantage of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Latinos tienen que ganarse el pan cada día,” said Ibarra in her native Spanish. “Yo sí pienso que los Latinos pueden contribuir más si nos dan la oportunidad para sacar adelante a nuestros hijos. Yo pienso que todos tenemos las ganas de progresar pero no se nos dan las facilidades que se les da a una persona ciudadana de aquí.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That translates in English to: “Latinos have to start all over again, every day,” said Ibarra. “I do think that Latinos can contribute more to this country if they give us the same opportunity to better ourselves and our children. I think we all want to progress, but they don’t give us the same tools they give someone who was born here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, black people and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts, according to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analyzed by Reveal\u003c/a> for The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis showed black applicants were turned away at significantly higher rates than whites in 48 cities, and Latinos in 25, even when controlling for loan size, neighborhood and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other instances, black or Latino applicants were steered toward higher-cost, riskier loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America, for example, agreed to a $335 million payout to the Justice Department on behalf of its mortgage lender, Countrywide. Prior to Bank of America’s purchase of the lending institution, Countrywide purposely charged more than 200,000 black and Latino borrowers more for their mortgage loans than white borrowers with similar qualifications between 2004 and 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lender advised those borrowers of color to take out risky sub-prime loans, even when they qualified for prime loans, or simply charged them higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lending institutions, such as Wells Fargo, have had similar claims levied against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Latinos Turn to Friends, Family for Seed Money\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the 2019 Stanford report, Latinos get loans from local banks at a much higher rate than they do from national banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, local banks are disappearing across the United States and in California, thanks to what some say are more onerous federal regulations, potentially leaving Latinos out in the cold. According to data provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as of Dec. 31, 2001, 8,080 FDIC-insured community banks existed in the country. By Dec. 31, 2018, 5,406 remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The local banks are tied to the community more tightly,” said Porras. “If the community has more Latino businesses, the relationships are built up and they grow. National banks lag behind there because local banks work harder to network with the businesses in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When local banks are not available, instead of applying to larger loan institutions, many Latinos turn to friends, family and crowdfunding for seed money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brew-N-Krew co-owners Marlene and Steven Garcia serve customers at Steinbeck’s Home Brew Fest. \u003ccite>(Kate Cimini/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Salinas, a small city surrounded by rich agricultural land, U.S. Census Bureau data shows 78.7% of the some-156,000 residents are Hispanic or Latino. While the city’s agricultural industry thrives financially, thanks to the tens of thousands of Latino farmworkers that flow in and out of Salinas every year, the average farmworker takes home just $17,500 a year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. More than 17% of its residents live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Latino entrepreneurship is evident in Salinas. Latino-owned restaurants, barbershops, grocery stores, showrooms like this \u003ca href=\"https://www.craftsmenind.com/mobile-showroom-trailer-truck\">\u003cstrong>trailer mobile showroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and more have risen out of the landscape all over town, tucked into plazas and surrounding big box stores. Nearly 30% of all businesses in Monterey County, where Salinas rests, are owned by Hispanic or Latino people, per data provided by the Monterey County Workforce Development Board from the 2012 American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Garcia, 29, is the proprietor of a homebrew operation turned commercial brewery that will open in Salinas in the spring. She borrowed $210,000 from her mother to start up her operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas’s downtown is just three blocks long, but Garcia’s brewery, Brew & Krew, will open on the 100 block of Main Street, near four other Latino-owned businesses that have opened (or re-opened under new ownership) in the last two years. The growth is notable on a side of town that is inhabited primarily by white residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am honestly so thankful for my parents, both of them,” said Garcia, reminiscing about her parents’ insistence that she help with the family businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents, Graciela and Gildardo, worked in fields after immigrating to the U.S. from Guanajuato, Mexico. Every month or so, they would go to Los Angeles, five hours away, to stock up on Mexican candy, piñatas and cassette tapes, Garcia said. Then, they would turn around and sell them at the Santa Cruz weekend flea market in central California, dragging their children with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was there that Garcia learned the dedication it took to run a business, even as she told her parents she never wanted to own her own operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, my entire life, we would go to the flea market,” said Garcia. “We’d wake up super early, drive to Santa Cruz, and work. I remember telling my parents, ‘I don’t want this, I don’t want to go into business.’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that I’m older, I appreciate everything they did. I see why they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Garcias opened another stand in another flea market, then a taquería. Finally, they sold all their businesses and took out their first loan of $80,000 to open a liquor store in Gilroy. They named the store La Flor de Jalisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"latino\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Garcia wanted to open her own brewery, her mother became her silent business partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of them, because of the way they saved, because they saved, a lot of the money that has been invested came from my mom,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia is in the process of applying for her first loan — a Small Business Administration loan for $480,000 to open her business. She credits her mother’s help in allowing her to not rack up debt and interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the space is still unfinished, Garcia has big plans for her small brewery. She wants large, stainless steel canisters in the back, behind a large pane of glass, so brew enthusiasts can watch the brewers at work as they sip on suds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes to connect with other business owners in the area to cross-promote, whether it be with the cinema next door or the sandwich shop across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hispanic parents are never excited to hand out money,” Garcia said, laughing. “But she believed in it, she saw that people really do like beer. If she wouldn’t seen that reaction, it would have been harder to convince her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osornio, owner of Tortas Al 100, closes the back of his cargo trailer. \u003ccite>(Kate Cimini/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Puro cash'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Osornio’s family has a saying whenever they have to pay for something. “Puro cash,” they repeat, laughing, or pure cash in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joke is based on Osornio’s father. Years ago, when he was purchasing a car for his wife, the salesman asked him if he wanted to finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” said Osornio the elder. “Puro cash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the financial savvy his father displayed, Orsonio said his parents rarely talked money management with him. All he recalls was being told credit cards were for emergencies only, a lesson that, like many teenagers, he immediately disregarded as soon as he got one of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of wiggling out from under a pile of debt taught Osornio that he wanted applying for a loan to be “a last resort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Osornio has managed to build such a successful business with his unique torta recipes that he routinely fields offers from locals to invest in or outright purchase his business — and his recipes — from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, advocates have said, is the hidden silver lining for Latino entrepreneurs: even more untapped potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://research.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hispanic_V5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New American Economy report\u003c/a> on the power of Hispanics in the U.S., Hispanic entrepreneurs own a large chunk of transportation and warehouse businesses, laying claim to more than 20% of the industry in 2012. They also owned about 12% of the country’s construction firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that, given a chance, Latinos could grow their portion of the economy even further. However, the “opportunity gap” between Latinos and their white, business-owning\u003cbr>\ncounterparts is wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealth is the missing ingredient in the Latino community,” said Porras. “If we could add more wealth, people would consume more and grow the economy. How do we get more wealth? Grow businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a synergystic process,” said Porras. “In the long term, it will benefit the whole country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Latinos need, Porras said, is a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kate Cimini is a multimedia journalist for The Californian. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Latino small business owners are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S., even as they battle systemic racism resulting in lower incomes and loan rates.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652955524,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":83,"wordCount":3241},"headData":{"title":"Latino Small Business Owners are the Fastest-Growing Group of Entrepreneurs in the US | KQED","description":"Latino small business owners are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S., even as they battle systemic racism resulting in lower incomes and loan rates.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Latino Small Business Owners are the Fastest-Growing Group of Entrepreneurs in the US","datePublished":"2020-02-27T13:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2022-05-19T10:18:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11803648 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11803648","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/27/latino-small-business-owners-are-the-fastest-growing-group-of-entrepreneurs-in-the-us/","disqusTitle":"Latino Small Business Owners are the Fastest-Growing Group of Entrepreneurs in the US","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"Kate Cimini","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11803648/latino-small-business-owners-are-the-fastest-growing-group-of-entrepreneurs-in-the-us","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the weekends, Salinas food truck owner Orlando Osornio, 30, and his wife, Denise, sell mile-high tortas filled with California fusion-inspired ingredients: hot Cheetos, bacon, mango-habañero sauce, or pineapple. Some come for the birria torta or the chicken-bacon-alfredo torta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A line of customers winds its way around the side of his tent as meat sizzles on the grills. On the other side of the mesh, Osornio and his crew pack and stack toasted buns as fast as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, when Osornio, who is Mexican American, was contemplating launching Tortas Al 100, he knew one thing: He didn’t want to apply for a loan. Osornio had racked up “about $30,000” in credit card debt as a teenager and when life smacked him in the face in his early 20s, he got serious about paying it down and fixing his credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41591_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Osornio owns Tortas Al 100 in Salinas. \u003ccite>(Kate Cimini/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That experience, he said, was what prompted him to forgo applying for a small business loan. Instead, Osornio estimated he and his wife spent at least $50,000 of their salaries on the burgeoning business, including food, four grills, a tent and more during its first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino small business owners like Osornio are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S., even as they battle systemic racism that has resulted in lower incomes and loan rates. Over the past 10 years, the number of Latino business owners grew 34%, compared to 1% for all business owners in the United States, according to a recent study from Stanford University. And more Latinos than ever are applying for small business loans to launch or grow their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Becoming an Economic Force\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The growing success of Latino small business owners comes as Latinos are increasingly becoming an economic force in the U.S. The same Stanford study found Latino-owned businesses contributed about $500 billion to the economy in annual sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2019 report to Congress based on data from 2017 found almost 60 million Latinos in the United States already account for $2.3 trillion in economic activity in total, which on its own would rank as the eighth largest economy in the world. And Latinos are projected to make up 30% of the U.S. population by 2020, meaning the group’s contributions are likely to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino-owned businesses employ more than 3 million people, the 2019 State of Latino Entrepreneurship report by the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), a Stanford University research initiative centered around Latinos in business, found. All told, Latino-owned businesses account for about 4% of U.S. business revenues and 5.5% of U.S. employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Latino-owned companies remain smaller than white-owned firms, averaging only $1.2 million in revenue compared with $2.3 million brought in by a white-owned company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a problem, said Jerry Porras, a professor of organizational behavior and change emeritus at Stanford Business School, co-founder of the Latino Business Action Network, a nonprofit out of Stanford University focused on empowering Latino business owners, and co-director of SLEI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s really a positive story when you look at Latino businesses across the country,” said Porras. “The number is smaller as a base but its growing very rapidly. Latinos are oriented towards starting businesses and are doing it at a significant rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Latino-owned employer firms were given the same chances, Porras said, they would generate an additional $4 billion in revenue and 1 million jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Younger Than Other Entrepreneurs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., Latinos are represented in all the major industry sectors, owning businesses in manufacturing, education, health services, finance, construction and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino business owners tend to be younger than non-Latino business owners. Roughly 33% of Latino entrepreneurs are younger than 45, compared to just 22% of non-Latino entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For every 100,000 Latino adults in the United States, on average 510 became entrepreneurs each month in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, research by the \u003ca href=\"https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/24590/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute on Assets and Social Policy\u003c/a>, an institute that studies economic opportunities for people of color, evidences that historic disenfranchisement of people of color has led to those very people having less generational wealth than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, policies that favor the affluent have continued to widen the gap, particularly between white families and black or Latino families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the income gap between blacks and whites closed somewhat between 1970 to 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/11/who-is-hispanic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hispanics\u003c/a> fell even further behind at all income levels, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/12/key-findings-on-the-rise-in-income-inequality-within-americas-racial-and-ethnic-groups/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research Center think tank\u003c/a> found in 2018. Even top-earning Hispanics earned only 65% as much as whites in 2016, down from 74% in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, on average, continue to make lower salaries than white people, research out of Stanford showed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, this combination means Latinos typically have lower credit scores, which, in turn, can mean higher interest rates or being turned down for loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report submitted to the \u003ca href=\"https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-116-ba00-wstate-brownj-20190226.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. House Financial Services Committee in 2019\u003c/a> by UnidosUS, a nonpartisan think tank focused on the Hispanic community, banks originally had loan officers who determined the “trustworthiness” of a loan applicant. As such, people of color were often discriminated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following decades, banks lost their loan officers to the war effort, and soon invented credit scores as a stand-in. However, these, too, had their issues as they were built on longstanding disparities and have resulted in communities of color, young adults, people with low income and immigrants having disproportionately low credit scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/publication-pdf/slei-report-2018-latino-owned-businesses-shinging-light-national-trends.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 Small Business Credit Study\u003c/a> by the Federal Reserve Banks, of applicants denied credit, 45% of Latino applicants were denied for insufficient credit history and 37% were denied for having too low a credit score. (Applicants could choose more than one response.) In comparison, white applicants were turned away at rates of 33% and 26% for the same reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Latino story in some ways follows the story of why black families have less wealth than white people today,” said Urban Institute research fellow Steven Brown. “There is a lack of the same kind of resources that help build wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown cited restricted access to homeownership under policies such as “redlining” as a primary way Latinos were kept from building generational wealth. For decades, black and Latino neighborhoods were unfairly deemed too risky for loans and mortgages through redlining. That left people in those neighborhoods reliant on speculators or private sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Latinos have been able to buy homes, they have historically been relegated to neighborhoods where the homes didn’t have as much value so they’re unable to build as much wealth and pass it on,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more recent years, as Latinos have become more prominent in U.S. culture, their economic standing is also rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.biz2credit.com/research-reports/latino-small-business-study-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 study\u003c/a> of 61,000 small-business loan applications submitted to Biz2Credit’s online marketplace found that the number of credit applications from Latino-owned businesses rose 23% from 2018 to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Outpacing US Economy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>And over the last year, Latino-owned businesses reported an average revenue growth of 14%, outpacing the growth of the U.S. economy, the Stanford report showed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While revenues climbed, though, the average credit scores of Latino business owners dipped to 588 from 594 last year, according to Biz2Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Biz2Credit’s CEO, Rohit Arora, that could indicate business owners are using personal credit cards to fund their business growth if their companies did not qualify for loans. Furthermore, cost management can be difficult for young businesses, which may factor into the dip in scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When credit scores are less than 600, it is hard to get traditional bank loans,” Arora said in the report his firm released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porras said the lack of credit can force Latino business owners to make riskier financial decisions, such as relying on personal credit cards to grow their business, or taking out a loan on their accounts receivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By and large, I think Latinos are very unsuccessful in securing loans from the more professional sources,” said Porras. “It’s the smaller ones that are hurting the most,” added Porras, referencing business size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, Latino borrowers may be less trusting of financial institutions as a whole, based either on past experiences or a general understanding of systemic racism by lending institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos have to pay more for interest,” said Fausta Ibarra, 59, who owns her own hair salon, Tropical Cuts, in Salinas, California. “We have to pay more for everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra, who calls herself a “cien por ciento,” or 100%, Mexican woman, herself had poor credit, after issues with a house she and her sisters bought together in the early 1990s. When she applied for a loan in 1993 to open her hair salon, a brightly lit salon tucked into a small strip mall in Salinas, Washington Mutual Bank denied the loan. (The bank collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ended up borrowing nearly $30,000 from friends, family and coworkers, slowly paying them back one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when Ibarra tried to purchase a home in 1996, her low credit still held her back. There was, however, another way, the realtor told her. Ibarra ended up paying more than the house was on the market for, and she had to borrow from friends and family so she could put down a deposit of $10,000, twice what she was prepared to pay out of pocket. Ibarra felt taken advantage of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Latinos tienen que ganarse el pan cada día,” said Ibarra in her native Spanish. “Yo sí pienso que los Latinos pueden contribuir más si nos dan la oportunidad para sacar adelante a nuestros hijos. Yo pienso que todos tenemos las ganas de progresar pero no se nos dan las facilidades que se les da a una persona ciudadana de aquí.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That translates in English to: “Latinos have to start all over again, every day,” said Ibarra. “I do think that Latinos can contribute more to this country if they give us the same opportunity to better ourselves and our children. I think we all want to progress, but they don’t give us the same tools they give someone who was born here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, black people and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts, according to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analyzed by Reveal\u003c/a> for The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis showed black applicants were turned away at significantly higher rates than whites in 48 cities, and Latinos in 25, even when controlling for loan size, neighborhood and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other instances, black or Latino applicants were steered toward higher-cost, riskier loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank of America, for example, agreed to a $335 million payout to the Justice Department on behalf of its mortgage lender, Countrywide. Prior to Bank of America’s purchase of the lending institution, Countrywide purposely charged more than 200,000 black and Latino borrowers more for their mortgage loans than white borrowers with similar qualifications between 2004 and 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lender advised those borrowers of color to take out risky sub-prime loans, even when they qualified for prime loans, or simply charged them higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lending institutions, such as Wells Fargo, have had similar claims levied against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Latinos Turn to Friends, Family for Seed Money\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the 2019 Stanford report, Latinos get loans from local banks at a much higher rate than they do from national banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, local banks are disappearing across the United States and in California, thanks to what some say are more onerous federal regulations, potentially leaving Latinos out in the cold. According to data provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as of Dec. 31, 2001, 8,080 FDIC-insured community banks existed in the country. By Dec. 31, 2018, 5,406 remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The local banks are tied to the community more tightly,” said Porras. “If the community has more Latino businesses, the relationships are built up and they grow. National banks lag behind there because local banks work harder to network with the businesses in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When local banks are not available, instead of applying to larger loan institutions, many Latinos turn to friends, family and crowdfunding for seed money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41593_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brew-N-Krew co-owners Marlene and Steven Garcia serve customers at Steinbeck’s Home Brew Fest. \u003ccite>(Kate Cimini/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Salinas, a small city surrounded by rich agricultural land, U.S. Census Bureau data shows 78.7% of the some-156,000 residents are Hispanic or Latino. While the city’s agricultural industry thrives financially, thanks to the tens of thousands of Latino farmworkers that flow in and out of Salinas every year, the average farmworker takes home just $17,500 a year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. More than 17% of its residents live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Latino entrepreneurship is evident in Salinas. Latino-owned restaurants, barbershops, grocery stores, showrooms like this \u003ca href=\"https://www.craftsmenind.com/mobile-showroom-trailer-truck\">\u003cstrong>trailer mobile showroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and more have risen out of the landscape all over town, tucked into plazas and surrounding big box stores. Nearly 30% of all businesses in Monterey County, where Salinas rests, are owned by Hispanic or Latino people, per data provided by the Monterey County Workforce Development Board from the 2012 American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Garcia, 29, is the proprietor of a homebrew operation turned commercial brewery that will open in Salinas in the spring. She borrowed $210,000 from her mother to start up her operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas’s downtown is just three blocks long, but Garcia’s brewery, Brew & Krew, will open on the 100 block of Main Street, near four other Latino-owned businesses that have opened (or re-opened under new ownership) in the last two years. The growth is notable on a side of town that is inhabited primarily by white residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am honestly so thankful for my parents, both of them,” said Garcia, reminiscing about her parents’ insistence that she help with the family businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents, Graciela and Gildardo, worked in fields after immigrating to the U.S. from Guanajuato, Mexico. Every month or so, they would go to Los Angeles, five hours away, to stock up on Mexican candy, piñatas and cassette tapes, Garcia said. Then, they would turn around and sell them at the Santa Cruz weekend flea market in central California, dragging their children with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was there that Garcia learned the dedication it took to run a business, even as she told her parents she never wanted to own her own operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, my entire life, we would go to the flea market,” said Garcia. “We’d wake up super early, drive to Santa Cruz, and work. I remember telling my parents, ‘I don’t want this, I don’t want to go into business.’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that I’m older, I appreciate everything they did. I see why they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Garcias opened another stand in another flea market, then a taquería. Finally, they sold all their businesses and took out their first loan of $80,000 to open a liquor store in Gilroy. They named the store La Flor de Jalisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"latino","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Garcia wanted to open her own brewery, her mother became her silent business partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of them, because of the way they saved, because they saved, a lot of the money that has been invested came from my mom,” said Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia is in the process of applying for her first loan — a Small Business Administration loan for $480,000 to open her business. She credits her mother’s help in allowing her to not rack up debt and interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the space is still unfinished, Garcia has big plans for her small brewery. She wants large, stainless steel canisters in the back, behind a large pane of glass, so brew enthusiasts can watch the brewers at work as they sip on suds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes to connect with other business owners in the area to cross-promote, whether it be with the cinema next door or the sandwich shop across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hispanic parents are never excited to hand out money,” Garcia said, laughing. “But she believed in it, she saw that people really do like beer. If she wouldn’t seen that reaction, it would have been harder to convince her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41594_LATINO-BUSINESS-OWNERS-photo-4-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osornio, owner of Tortas Al 100, closes the back of his cargo trailer. \u003ccite>(Kate Cimini/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Puro cash'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Osornio’s family has a saying whenever they have to pay for something. “Puro cash,” they repeat, laughing, or pure cash in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joke is based on Osornio’s father. Years ago, when he was purchasing a car for his wife, the salesman asked him if he wanted to finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No,” said Osornio the elder. “Puro cash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the financial savvy his father displayed, Orsonio said his parents rarely talked money management with him. All he recalls was being told credit cards were for emergencies only, a lesson that, like many teenagers, he immediately disregarded as soon as he got one of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of wiggling out from under a pile of debt taught Osornio that he wanted applying for a loan to be “a last resort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Osornio has managed to build such a successful business with his unique torta recipes that he routinely fields offers from locals to invest in or outright purchase his business — and his recipes — from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, advocates have said, is the hidden silver lining for Latino entrepreneurs: even more untapped potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://research.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hispanic_V5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New American Economy report\u003c/a> on the power of Hispanics in the U.S., Hispanic entrepreneurs own a large chunk of transportation and warehouse businesses, laying claim to more than 20% of the industry in 2012. They also owned about 12% of the country’s construction firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that, given a chance, Latinos could grow their portion of the economy even further. However, the “opportunity gap” between Latinos and their white, business-owning\u003cbr>\ncounterparts is wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealth is the missing ingredient in the Latino community,” said Porras. “If we could add more wealth, people would consume more and grow the economy. How do we get more wealth? Grow businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a synergystic process,” said Porras. “In the long term, it will benefit the whole country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Latinos need, Porras said, is a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kate Cimini is a multimedia journalist for The Californian. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11803648/latino-small-business-owners-are-the-fastest-growing-group-of-entrepreneurs-in-the-us","authors":["byline_news_11803648"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_17611","news_20427","news_20605","news_4889","news_178"],"featImg":"news_11803666","label":"source_news_11803648"},"news_11636798":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11636798","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11636798","score":null,"sort":[1513894418000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-the-gold-rush-to-humboldt-fog-california-entrepreneurs-dream-of-cheese","title":"From the Gold Rush to Humboldt Fog, California Entrepreneurs Dream of Cheese","publishDate":1513894418,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/heather-paxson-384090\">Heather Paxson\u003c/a> is professor of anthropology at the \u003ca href=\"http://theconversation.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-1193\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for Humboldt Fog goat’s milk cheese first came to Mary Keehn in a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She fell asleep on an airplane and awoke with a vivid picture in her mind of how the cheese looked. And then she set out to realize her vision -- in the process, she helped launch a late-20th-century American renaissance in artisan cheese-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the dream didn’t come from nowhere. In Keehn’s telling, the revelation occurred on a transatlantic flight home from France, where she’d gone in 1992 as a young cheese-maker looking for new inspiration by tasting traditional French cheeses and visiting their makers. Indeed, a wheel of Humboldt Fog melds elements of two iconic French cheeses, with a Morbier-like ribbon of ash running through chalky paste more reminiscent of a soft-ripened Valançay. The result is thoroughly distinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/about-us/our-story.html\">story of Keehn’s Cypress Grove Cheese\u003c/a> is a quintessential telling of the California dream. Not merely an entrepreneurial success story, it is a narrative of self-reinvention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California dream\u003c/a> is about moving west (or, as in Keehn’s case, farther north, to Humboldt County from Sonoma) to start anew, seeking not so much to get rich quick as to envision and inhabit a new identity. Cypress Grove’s heroine embodies characteristics that could describe the American artisan cheese industry as a whole: scrappy, innovative and unapologetically indebted to European tastes and know-how -- condensing themes that emerged through anthropological research I conducted across the United States for my book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">The Life of Cheese\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWqH0SXhEEM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Back to the Land, Making Cheese\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mary Keehn acquired her first goats in 1970, wanting to feed fresh goat’s milk to her first daughter, whom she was herself then weaning. For years, Keehn and her family lived as self-sufficiently as possible. Overwhelmed with more goat’s milk than her human companions could or were willing to drink, she began experimenting in her kitchen and learned to make fresh cheese, or chèvre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend who was opening a restaurant told Keehn, now a divorced mother of four, “If you start a [licensed] cheese factory, I’ll buy your cheese.” And in 1983 – without any official training, apprenticeship or business experience beyond selling her goats’ breed stock – Keehn launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/cheese/\">Cypress Grove\u003c/a>. For nine years, prior to the trip to France and subsequent introduction of Humboldt Fog, Cypress Grove sold fresh chèvre and fromage blanc, cheeses more wholesome than gourmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636911\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"Cheesemaker Mary Keehn with displays a new wheel of Humboldt Fog\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-160x241.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-240x361.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-375x565.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-520x783.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Keehn with a new wheel of Humboldt Fog. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/resources/press-kit.html\">Cyprus Grove\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\">CC BY-ND\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Keehn was one of a number of Americans involved in the back-to-the-land movement who, in the early ‘80s, began making cheese by hand for commercial sale. Located in the Northern California coastal town of Arcata, Keehn grew Cypress Grove into a successful business with national distribution and name recognition that employs over 40 workers -- a far cry from its modest origins. In 2010, Keehn sold the company to the Swiss corporation Emmi, although her daily involvement continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s cheese lovers can drive (or internet browse) along the \u003ca href=\"http://cheesetrail.org/trail-map/\">California Cheese Trail\u003c/a>, stretching from Crescent City near the Oregon border south to Los Angeles. It leads to artisan micro-dairies as well as Kraft Foods subsidiaries. Created in 2010 by a Marin County dairy farmer’s daughter on the model of wine-tasting maps, the California Cheese Trail today features 72 cheese-making operations. Nationwide, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheesesociety.org/events-education/state-of-the-industry/\">American Cheese Society\u003c/a> counts more than 900 artisan and specialty cheese operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflective of the state’s cultural diversity, the variety in California cheese-making is neither new nor unique to the state. But it is indicative of how \u003ca href=\"https://www.crcpress.com/Edible-Identities-Food-as-Cultural-Heritage/Brulotte-Giovine/p/book/9781138634947\">food-making traditions\u003c/a> in the United States are often animated by personal narratives of innovation rather than, as in Europe, adherence to customary tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the number of California’s artisan cheese producers has grown exponentially. But while hippie goat ladies have been celebrated as cheese-making pioneers, they are not without precedent. The California dream of a century earlier saw a similar flourishing of cheese-making activity in port cities up and down the Pacific Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden ships in Yerba Buena Cove during the Gold Rush\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-960x644.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-520x349.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco harbor at Yerba Buena Cove was so busy during the Gold Rush that ships could wait days to unload. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664511/\">Sterling C. McIntyre, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\">CC BY\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Gold Rush Roots for New Cheese Markets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinfrenchcheese.com/\">Marin French Cheese Company\u003c/a>, in Petaluma, claims to be the oldest continuously operating cheese factory in the United States. In 1865, with Lincoln in the White House and the Civil War coming to an end, Marin French (originally Thompson Brothers Cheese Co.) got its start when Jefferson Thompson, a dairy farmer, recognized an emergent market niche in the nearby port town of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The now late Jim Boyce, who purchased Marin French in 1998 from Thompson’s descendants, related the company’s history to me in the course of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">own research\u003c/a>. During the California Gold Rush between 1849 and 1855, European stevedores who sailed into what’s now called San Francisco Bay delivering goods to support the mining enterprises got “caught up in the fever” themselves. Many abandoned ship to seek their own fortunes mining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pLoLFtwm5fsrIYlBEcX55QktUsEQitJ7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the gold rush went bust, workers returned to the bay to make a living at the dockyards. As Boyce said to me, “Now, in any workman’s bar or inn... the beer gives them hydration and carbohydrate but no protein,” so “typically in a workman’s bar there’s a jar of pickled eggs or something like that – pig knuckles, sausage.” But in the Bay Area at that time agriculture had yet to be fully developed. “There weren’t any eggs,” Boyce explained, as there were no commercial hen farms. So according to Boyce, enterprising dairy farmer Jefferson Thompson said to himself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a moment of marketing brilliance, ‘I wonder if they’d eat cheese, instead?’ So he starts making these little cheeses, three-ounce cheeses, more or less. And he hauls them off to the docks, and they put them on the table in a bowl, and they were an immediate hit! Why? Because these are European stevedores: They knew cheese! They ate it breakfast, lunch and dinner. And that was the origin of the company.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/_Te1OHOtLk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With New Migrants Come New Tastes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Mary Keehn’s Humboldt Fog exemplifies personal insight and passion, Jefferson Thompson’s Breakfast Cheese (now Marin French’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinfrenchcheese.com/history/petite-breakfast/\">Petite Breakfast\u003c/a>) celebrates the generation of new markets. It’s a reminder that the California dream of entrepreneurial reinvention requires not only creative genius but also the appreciative taste of willing consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Gold Rush brought European deckhands eager to eat soft-ripened cheeses. Marin French was at the ready, hand-ladling Camembert. In the late-20th century, hippie eaters of “health foods” gave way to American Europhiles who valued a diversity of distinctive tastes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here it is worth remembering that California, nearly all the up way to present-day Arcata, was until 1848 part of Mexico. Cross-cutting immigrant histories have long underwritten the California dream – and they still do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d3blJDeOmYFfOdRITs15FBp2XS67fV77\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Cheese Trail declares \u003ca href=\"http://ariza-cheese.com/\">Ariza Cheese\u003c/a>, established in 1970, to be “the oldest artisan Mexican cheese-maker in Southern California.” It specializes in Salvadoran cheeses in addition to crumbly Mexican Cotija. You will find Ariza just off Alondra Blvd. in the city of Paramont, east of Compton in L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, four of the company’s long-term employees -- immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador -- \u003ca href=\"https://laopinion.com/2015/02/01/ariza-la-adquisicion-de-un-sueno/\">purchased\u003c/a> the company with the aid of \u003ca href=\"http://www.concernedcapital.org/\">Concerned Capital\u003c/a>, a social benefit corporation that invests in low- to moderate-income communities by helping to transfer business ownership to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/79469/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">In 21st-century narratives of new beginnings are echoes of earlier immigrant worlds. Dreams upon dreams – while consumers continue to savor California cheeses with wide-ranging inspirations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"http://theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a>, an online publication that features academics writing about their research and ideas for the public. KQED and The Conversation are partners in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Dream\u003c/a> project, a collaboration looking at the Golden State's promise, whether we are achieving it, and the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The story of the invention of Humboldt Fog is a quintessential telling of the California dream -- it's a narrative of self-reinvention.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523647003,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1486},"headData":{"title":"From the Gold Rush to Humboldt Fog, California Entrepreneurs Dream of Cheese | KQED","description":"The story of the invention of Humboldt Fog is a quintessential telling of the California dream -- it's a narrative of self-reinvention.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"From the Gold Rush to Humboldt Fog, California Entrepreneurs Dream of Cheese","datePublished":"2017-12-21T22:13:38.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-13T19:16:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11636798 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11636798","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/21/from-the-gold-rush-to-humboldt-fog-california-entrepreneurs-dream-of-cheese/","disqusTitle":"From the Gold Rush to Humboldt Fog, California Entrepreneurs Dream of Cheese","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/heather-paxson-384090\">Heather Paxson\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr />\u003cem>MIT, for \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com\">The Conversation\u003c/a>\u003c/em>","path":"/news/11636798/from-the-gold-rush-to-humboldt-fog-california-entrepreneurs-dream-of-cheese","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/heather-paxson-384090\">Heather Paxson\u003c/a> is professor of anthropology at the \u003ca href=\"http://theconversation.com/institutions/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-1193\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for Humboldt Fog goat’s milk cheese first came to Mary Keehn in a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She fell asleep on an airplane and awoke with a vivid picture in her mind of how the cheese looked. And then she set out to realize her vision -- in the process, she helped launch a late-20th-century American renaissance in artisan cheese-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the dream didn’t come from nowhere. In Keehn’s telling, the revelation occurred on a transatlantic flight home from France, where she’d gone in 1992 as a young cheese-maker looking for new inspiration by tasting traditional French cheeses and visiting their makers. Indeed, a wheel of Humboldt Fog melds elements of two iconic French cheeses, with a Morbier-like ribbon of ash running through chalky paste more reminiscent of a soft-ripened Valançay. The result is thoroughly distinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/about-us/our-story.html\">story of Keehn’s Cypress Grove Cheese\u003c/a> is a quintessential telling of the California dream. Not merely an entrepreneurial success story, it is a narrative of self-reinvention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California dream\u003c/a> is about moving west (or, as in Keehn’s case, farther north, to Humboldt County from Sonoma) to start anew, seeking not so much to get rich quick as to envision and inhabit a new identity. Cypress Grove’s heroine embodies characteristics that could describe the American artisan cheese industry as a whole: scrappy, innovative and unapologetically indebted to European tastes and know-how -- condensing themes that emerged through anthropological research I conducted across the United States for my book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">The Life of Cheese\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vWqH0SXhEEM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vWqH0SXhEEM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Back to the Land, Making Cheese\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mary Keehn acquired her first goats in 1970, wanting to feed fresh goat’s milk to her first daughter, whom she was herself then weaning. For years, Keehn and her family lived as self-sufficiently as possible. Overwhelmed with more goat’s milk than her human companions could or were willing to drink, she began experimenting in her kitchen and learned to make fresh cheese, or chèvre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend who was opening a restaurant told Keehn, now a divorced mother of four, “If you start a [licensed] cheese factory, I’ll buy your cheese.” And in 1983 – without any official training, apprenticeship or business experience beyond selling her goats’ breed stock – Keehn launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/cheese/\">Cypress Grove\u003c/a>. For nine years, prior to the trip to France and subsequent introduction of Humboldt Fog, Cypress Grove sold fresh chèvre and fromage blanc, cheeses more wholesome than gourmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636911\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"Cheesemaker Mary Keehn with displays a new wheel of Humboldt Fog\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-160x241.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-240x361.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-375x565.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-520x783.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Keehn with a new wheel of Humboldt Fog. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/resources/press-kit.html\">Cyprus Grove\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\">CC BY-ND\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Keehn was one of a number of Americans involved in the back-to-the-land movement who, in the early ‘80s, began making cheese by hand for commercial sale. Located in the Northern California coastal town of Arcata, Keehn grew Cypress Grove into a successful business with national distribution and name recognition that employs over 40 workers -- a far cry from its modest origins. In 2010, Keehn sold the company to the Swiss corporation Emmi, although her daily involvement continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s cheese lovers can drive (or internet browse) along the \u003ca href=\"http://cheesetrail.org/trail-map/\">California Cheese Trail\u003c/a>, stretching from Crescent City near the Oregon border south to Los Angeles. It leads to artisan micro-dairies as well as Kraft Foods subsidiaries. Created in 2010 by a Marin County dairy farmer’s daughter on the model of wine-tasting maps, the California Cheese Trail today features 72 cheese-making operations. Nationwide, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheesesociety.org/events-education/state-of-the-industry/\">American Cheese Society\u003c/a> counts more than 900 artisan and specialty cheese operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflective of the state’s cultural diversity, the variety in California cheese-making is neither new nor unique to the state. But it is indicative of how \u003ca href=\"https://www.crcpress.com/Edible-Identities-Food-as-Cultural-Heritage/Brulotte-Giovine/p/book/9781138634947\">food-making traditions\u003c/a> in the United States are often animated by personal narratives of innovation rather than, as in Europe, adherence to customary tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the number of California’s artisan cheese producers has grown exponentially. But while hippie goat ladies have been celebrated as cheese-making pioneers, they are not without precedent. The California dream of a century earlier saw a similar flourishing of cheese-making activity in port cities up and down the Pacific Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden ships in Yerba Buena Cove during the Gold Rush\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-960x644.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-520x349.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco harbor at Yerba Buena Cove was so busy during the Gold Rush that ships could wait days to unload. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664511/\">Sterling C. McIntyre, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\">CC BY\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Gold Rush Roots for New Cheese Markets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinfrenchcheese.com/\">Marin French Cheese Company\u003c/a>, in Petaluma, claims to be the oldest continuously operating cheese factory in the United States. In 1865, with Lincoln in the White House and the Civil War coming to an end, Marin French (originally Thompson Brothers Cheese Co.) got its start when Jefferson Thompson, a dairy farmer, recognized an emergent market niche in the nearby port town of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The now late Jim Boyce, who purchased Marin French in 1998 from Thompson’s descendants, related the company’s history to me in the course of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">own research\u003c/a>. During the California Gold Rush between 1849 and 1855, European stevedores who sailed into what’s now called San Francisco Bay delivering goods to support the mining enterprises got “caught up in the fever” themselves. Many abandoned ship to seek their own fortunes mining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the gold rush went bust, workers returned to the bay to make a living at the dockyards. As Boyce said to me, “Now, in any workman’s bar or inn... the beer gives them hydration and carbohydrate but no protein,” so “typically in a workman’s bar there’s a jar of pickled eggs or something like that – pig knuckles, sausage.” But in the Bay Area at that time agriculture had yet to be fully developed. “There weren’t any eggs,” Boyce explained, as there were no commercial hen farms. So according to Boyce, enterprising dairy farmer Jefferson Thompson said to himself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a moment of marketing brilliance, ‘I wonder if they’d eat cheese, instead?’ So he starts making these little cheeses, three-ounce cheeses, more or less. And he hauls them off to the docks, and they put them on the table in a bowl, and they were an immediate hit! Why? Because these are European stevedores: They knew cheese! They ate it breakfast, lunch and dinner. And that was the origin of the company.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"_Te1OHOtLk"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>With New Migrants Come New Tastes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Mary Keehn’s Humboldt Fog exemplifies personal insight and passion, Jefferson Thompson’s Breakfast Cheese (now Marin French’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinfrenchcheese.com/history/petite-breakfast/\">Petite Breakfast\u003c/a>) celebrates the generation of new markets. It’s a reminder that the California dream of entrepreneurial reinvention requires not only creative genius but also the appreciative taste of willing consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Gold Rush brought European deckhands eager to eat soft-ripened cheeses. Marin French was at the ready, hand-ladling Camembert. In the late-20th century, hippie eaters of “health foods” gave way to American Europhiles who valued a diversity of distinctive tastes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here it is worth remembering that California, nearly all the up way to present-day Arcata, was until 1848 part of Mexico. Cross-cutting immigrant histories have long underwritten the California dream – and they still do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Cheese Trail declares \u003ca href=\"http://ariza-cheese.com/\">Ariza Cheese\u003c/a>, established in 1970, to be “the oldest artisan Mexican cheese-maker in Southern California.” It specializes in Salvadoran cheeses in addition to crumbly Mexican Cotija. You will find Ariza just off Alondra Blvd. in the city of Paramont, east of Compton in L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, four of the company’s long-term employees -- immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador -- \u003ca href=\"https://laopinion.com/2015/02/01/ariza-la-adquisicion-de-un-sueno/\">purchased\u003c/a> the company with the aid of \u003ca href=\"http://www.concernedcapital.org/\">Concerned Capital\u003c/a>, a social benefit corporation that invests in low- to moderate-income communities by helping to transfer business ownership to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/79469/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">In 21st-century narratives of new beginnings are echoes of earlier immigrant worlds. Dreams upon dreams – while consumers continue to savor California cheeses with wide-ranging inspirations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"http://theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a>, an online publication that features academics writing about their research and ideas for the public. KQED and The Conversation are partners in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Dream\u003c/a> project, a collaboration looking at the Golden State's promise, whether we are achieving it, and the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11636798/from-the-gold-rush-to-humboldt-fog-california-entrepreneurs-dream-of-cheese","authors":["byline_news_11636798"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_20397","news_20427","news_333","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11636907","label":"news_72"},"news_11629209":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11629209","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11629209","score":null,"sort":[1510867158000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tea-thc-lady-entrepreneurs-aim-to-micro-dose-your-happy-hour","title":"Tea & THC: Lady Entrepreneurs Aim to Take Your Happy Hour Higher","publishDate":1510867158,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent evening in Palo Alto, roughly 50 women arrived in a festive mood. For one thing, they were told to dress for a tea party, so they were all wearing gorgeous, 1950s-style dresses and great big hats. For another, they were expecting to get high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With retail sales of recreational marijuana expected to go legal in California on Jan. 1, one small startup is building its client base with marijuana-laced tea parties around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/11/MyrowHighTea1.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-800x450.jpg\" Title=\"Tea & THC: Lady Entrepreneurs Aim to Take Your Happy Hour Higher\" program=\"News Fix\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the brainy, well-to-do set in Palo Alto, nothing goes over quite so well as cucumber sandwiches, macarons and a witty, educational talk about the history and science of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One hundred million of us [Americans] live with chronic pain. I'm one of them. I have back issues,\" co-founder Amanda Jones tells the attentive crowd during a brief but comprehensive slideshow. \"We have a huge problem with prescription medications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"They look like any other line of teas at a gourmet grocery store, but these pack a punch, albeit a modest punch. Each contains a modest amount of marijuana, just enough to take the edge off of a range of ailments, including anxiety and sleeplessness.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They look like any other line of teas at a gourmet grocery store, but these pack a punch, albeit a modest punch. Each contains a modest amount of marijuana, just enough to take the edge off a range of ailments, including anxiety and sleeplessness. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If this sounds a little sedate … well, that’s the idea. \u003ca href=\"https://kikoko.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kikoko\u003c/a>, the company sponsoring this tea party, is targeting women. That is to say, women looking to take the edge off before bedtime, not to get baked on the couch with a pizza, watching Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikoko co-founder Jennifer Chapin explains, \"We realized we were on to something when we talked to so many women who were reliant on pharmaceuticals, and not necessarily happily. If we could come up with a reliably dosed product, we’d have a winner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t as easy as you might think, says Jones. \"We went through three, I think, science teams? Before …four? Before we actually cracked the nut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also quite a bit of -- cough -- personal research to fix on a product that would stand out from the crowd of options available now on the medical marijuana market: mints, gummy bears, tinctures, et cetera. Jones says, \"Just put it this way: In the last three years, we’ve done a lot more weed than we ever, ever did before in our lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629363 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Pick a cup, any cup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pick a cup, any cup. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They finally landed on water-soluble tea blends laced with a tiny bit of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis that gets you high: 3 to 10 milligrams, tops; “micro-dosing,” they call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partygoer Lori -- let’s just call her Lori, shall we? -- says she is not looking for a new addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not a big, uh, marijuana person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her what I ask everybody at the party who responds in this fashion: \"Did you use it in college?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes,\" she replies, before going on to assure me she's not a regular user now. For some women, this is doubtlessly true. Others at the party are concerned about the judgment of their bosses or clients. After all, recreational marijuana is not legal yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629369 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-800x888.jpg\" alt=\"Kikoko's Chelsea McKrill explains the products' properties. Because it takes longer for the body to process the THC in edibles, some people will consume too much, thinking “Nothing is happening!” Then, all of a sudden, too much is happening. “Start low and go slow,” is the company mantra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-800x888.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-160x178.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-1020x1132.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-1180x1310.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-960x1066.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-240x266.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-375x416.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-520x577.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kikoko's Chelsey McKrill explains the products' properties. Because it takes longer for the body to process the THC in edibles, some people will consume too much, thinking “nothing is happening!” Then, all of a sudden, too much is happening. “Start low and go slow” is the company mantra. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Tara Kaplinksy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Lori would like a little help getting better sleep and, sweeping her arm to include the rest of the room, Lori says she suspects others want the same. \"We’re all looking for the magic pill, I guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikoko's teas run the gamut from herbaceous to fruity, and like its marijuana-free competitors, each promises to address a different issue; or should I say desire. Chelsey McKrill sizes up one guest and suggests she try a cup of Sensuali-Tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKrill explains, \"It’s 7 milligrams. It has rose petals, cardamon, hibiscus, cloves, lavender. It’s not caffeinated so it’s going to enable you to go to sleep later and have some fun in the meantime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a product your teenager will want to steal from the cupboard, unless it’s for the flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Chapin explains she and Jones were originally inspired by the difficulty they observed a friend experience trying to find a medical marijuana product that would address her physical suffering without wiping her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Got the munchies yet?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Got the munchies yet? \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our friend Jan had ovarian cancer and she was using cannabis to medicate for sleep, pain, appetite. On the one hand, she had great results with it. On the other, she’d be knocked on her butt and she’d be crawling on her hands and knees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small dosages may also be a better fit for customers either just beginning to use recreational marijuana, or coming back to it for the first time in many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re seeing cannabis consumers coming out of the closet, and they don’t look like the traditional 18-21-year-old male. They span every race, every ethnicity, both genders, as well as all income brackets,\" says David Downs, cannabis editor at the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, \"Prohibition drove up the potency of these products and legalization is going to drive them back down, as companies seek to reach bigger and bigger markets. Most of those markets have very low tolerance for cannabis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='From left to right: Jacqueline Turner, Jennifer Chapin, Linda Jackson, and Amanda Jones. Jackson, aka \"Ganja Mamma,\" is a nurse who has spent the last 25 years specializing in helping seniors learn how to use medical marijuana.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Jacqueline Turner, Jennifer Chapin, Linda Jackson and Amanda Jones. Jackson, aka \"Ganja Mamma,\" is a nurse who has spent the last 25 years specializing in helping seniors learn how to use medical marijuana. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To purchase Kikoko teas today, you do have to have a medical marijuana card. In January, the game changes, and Kikoko’s potential market expands. The question is: Are they ready for expanded competition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downs worries that all the new regulations and red tape coming down the pike in California will quickly drive out small players like Kikoko. \"Cannabis is in a period of intense capitalization, and it goes without saying that the people with the most access to capital in America tend to be white males.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t tell that to Jones and Chapin. They have no illusions about gender bias in business, but they’ve managed to raise more than $3 million so far, from investors who trust they know best how to market to people like themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amanda Jones and Jennifer Chapin co-founded Kikoko, a startup serving micro-dosed, marijuana-laced teas marketed to women like themselves.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1511019683,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1173},"headData":{"title":"Tea & THC: Lady Entrepreneurs Aim to Take Your Happy Hour Higher | KQED","description":"Amanda Jones and Jennifer Chapin co-founded Kikoko, a startup serving micro-dosed, marijuana-laced teas marketed to women like themselves.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tea & THC: Lady Entrepreneurs Aim to Take Your Happy Hour Higher","datePublished":"2017-11-16T21:19:18.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-18T15:41:23.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11629209 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11629209","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/16/tea-thc-lady-entrepreneurs-aim-to-micro-dose-your-happy-hour/","disqusTitle":"Tea & THC: Lady Entrepreneurs Aim to Take Your Happy Hour Higher","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/11/MyrowHighTea1.mp3","path":"/news/11629209/tea-thc-lady-entrepreneurs-aim-to-micro-dose-your-happy-hour","audioDuration":255000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent evening in Palo Alto, roughly 50 women arrived in a festive mood. For one thing, they were told to dress for a tea party, so they were all wearing gorgeous, 1950s-style dresses and great big hats. For another, they were expecting to get high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With retail sales of recreational marijuana expected to go legal in California on Jan. 1, one small startup is building its client base with marijuana-laced tea parties around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/11/MyrowHighTea1.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-800x450.jpg","title":"Tea & THC: Lady Entrepreneurs Aim to Take Your Happy Hour Higher","program":"News Fix","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the brainy, well-to-do set in Palo Alto, nothing goes over quite so well as cucumber sandwiches, macarons and a witty, educational talk about the history and science of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One hundred million of us [Americans] live with chronic pain. I'm one of them. I have back issues,\" co-founder Amanda Jones tells the attentive crowd during a brief but comprehensive slideshow. \"We have a huge problem with prescription medications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"They look like any other line of teas at a gourmet grocery store, but these pack a punch, albeit a modest punch. Each contains a modest amount of marijuana, just enough to take the edge off of a range of ailments, including anxiety and sleeplessness.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27925_Photo-Oct-27-5-49-27-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They look like any other line of teas at a gourmet grocery store, but these pack a punch, albeit a modest punch. Each contains a modest amount of marijuana, just enough to take the edge off a range of ailments, including anxiety and sleeplessness. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If this sounds a little sedate … well, that’s the idea. \u003ca href=\"https://kikoko.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kikoko\u003c/a>, the company sponsoring this tea party, is targeting women. That is to say, women looking to take the edge off before bedtime, not to get baked on the couch with a pizza, watching Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikoko co-founder Jennifer Chapin explains, \"We realized we were on to something when we talked to so many women who were reliant on pharmaceuticals, and not necessarily happily. If we could come up with a reliably dosed product, we’d have a winner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t as easy as you might think, says Jones. \"We went through three, I think, science teams? Before …four? Before we actually cracked the nut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also quite a bit of -- cough -- personal research to fix on a product that would stand out from the crowd of options available now on the medical marijuana market: mints, gummy bears, tinctures, et cetera. Jones says, \"Just put it this way: In the last three years, we’ve done a lot more weed than we ever, ever did before in our lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629363 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Pick a cup, any cup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27926_Photo-Oct-27-5-51-24-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pick a cup, any cup. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They finally landed on water-soluble tea blends laced with a tiny bit of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis that gets you high: 3 to 10 milligrams, tops; “micro-dosing,” they call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partygoer Lori -- let’s just call her Lori, shall we? -- says she is not looking for a new addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not a big, uh, marijuana person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her what I ask everybody at the party who responds in this fashion: \"Did you use it in college?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes,\" she replies, before going on to assure me she's not a regular user now. For some women, this is doubtlessly true. Others at the party are concerned about the judgment of their bosses or clients. After all, recreational marijuana is not legal yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629369 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-800x888.jpg\" alt=\"Kikoko's Chelsea McKrill explains the products' properties. Because it takes longer for the body to process the THC in edibles, some people will consume too much, thinking “Nothing is happening!” Then, all of a sudden, too much is happening. “Start low and go slow,” is the company mantra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-800x888.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-160x178.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-1020x1132.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-1180x1310.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-960x1066.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-240x266.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-375x416.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27924_IMG_5990-qut-520x577.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kikoko's Chelsey McKrill explains the products' properties. Because it takes longer for the body to process the THC in edibles, some people will consume too much, thinking “nothing is happening!” Then, all of a sudden, too much is happening. “Start low and go slow” is the company mantra. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Tara Kaplinksy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Lori would like a little help getting better sleep and, sweeping her arm to include the rest of the room, Lori says she suspects others want the same. \"We’re all looking for the magic pill, I guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikoko's teas run the gamut from herbaceous to fruity, and like its marijuana-free competitors, each promises to address a different issue; or should I say desire. Chelsey McKrill sizes up one guest and suggests she try a cup of Sensuali-Tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKrill explains, \"It’s 7 milligrams. It has rose petals, cardamon, hibiscus, cloves, lavender. It’s not caffeinated so it’s going to enable you to go to sleep later and have some fun in the meantime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a product your teenager will want to steal from the cupboard, unless it’s for the flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Chapin explains she and Jones were originally inspired by the difficulty they observed a friend experience trying to find a medical marijuana product that would address her physical suffering without wiping her out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Got the munchies yet?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27929_Photo-Oct-27-5-48-49-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Got the munchies yet? \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our friend Jan had ovarian cancer and she was using cannabis to medicate for sleep, pain, appetite. On the one hand, she had great results with it. On the other, she’d be knocked on her butt and she’d be crawling on her hands and knees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small dosages may also be a better fit for customers either just beginning to use recreational marijuana, or coming back to it for the first time in many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re seeing cannabis consumers coming out of the closet, and they don’t look like the traditional 18-21-year-old male. They span every race, every ethnicity, both genders, as well as all income brackets,\" says David Downs, cannabis editor at the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, \"Prohibition drove up the potency of these products and legalization is going to drive them back down, as companies seek to reach bigger and bigger markets. Most of those markets have very low tolerance for cannabis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='From left to right: Jacqueline Turner, Jennifer Chapin, Linda Jackson, and Amanda Jones. Jackson, aka \"Ganja Mamma,\" is a nurse who has spent the last 25 years specializing in helping seniors learn how to use medical marijuana.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27928_IMG_6017-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Jacqueline Turner, Jennifer Chapin, Linda Jackson and Amanda Jones. Jackson, aka \"Ganja Mamma,\" is a nurse who has spent the last 25 years specializing in helping seniors learn how to use medical marijuana. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To purchase Kikoko teas today, you do have to have a medical marijuana card. In January, the game changes, and Kikoko’s potential market expands. The question is: Are they ready for expanded competition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downs worries that all the new regulations and red tape coming down the pike in California will quickly drive out small players like Kikoko. \"Cannabis is in a period of intense capitalization, and it goes without saying that the people with the most access to capital in America tend to be white males.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t tell that to Jones and Chapin. They have no illusions about gender bias in business, but they’ve managed to raise more than $3 million so far, from investors who trust they know best how to market to people like themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11629209/tea-thc-lady-entrepreneurs-aim-to-micro-dose-your-happy-hour","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_223","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_20427","news_333","news_102","news_803","news_2833"],"featImg":"news_11629358","label":"news_6944"},"news_11610571":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11610571","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11610571","score":null,"sort":[1504745703000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fintech-loans-a-sometimes-costly-lifeline-for-small-business","title":"'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business","publishDate":1504745703,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Che Al-Barri remembers feeling like he was drowning in debt last year. He had taken out a $70,000 loan for his small cleaning company, but was struggling to repay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lender, a financial technology -- or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/02/10/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-fintech-in-2017/#52992e173340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fintech\u003c/a> -- company, automatically collected $331 from his bank account daily, Monday through Friday. The frequent hits depleted his income and took a toll on his business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you get hit every single day you have no time to breathe,\" said Al-Barri, 45, who grew up in Richmond. \"It put me up against the wall. There was many times I pulled the covers over my head and just laid there like, 'Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri's predicament points to an intensifying debate about the booming online lending industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/FaridaOnlineLending.mp3\" title=\"Part 1: Online 'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26158_IMG_0814-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/OnlineLoanTrouble.mp3\" title=\"Part 2: Online 'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\nMany observers see glittering potential for fintech companies to solve an age-old problem: connecting entrepreneurs -- especially in minority and low-income communities struggling to get financing from banks -- with capital to grow their businesses. Critics counter the fast-changing sector is operating in a regulatory void and that some online lenders are sinking vulnerable business owners with exorbitant costs and grueling repayment terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Al-Barri, taking a big loan seemed like a great opportunity at first. Large clients were taking months to pay him, he said, and he wanted to buy equipment and hire employees to expand. But he underestimated how much he would earn, making it very difficult to repay the loan plus the $30,000 in interest he owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to get out of a bad situation and jumped into a worse one,\" said Al-Barri, who declined to name the online lender. His company, J.C. Professional Services, cleans high-rise windows, solar panels and office buildings throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech companies use electronic data and computer algorithms to screen borrowers quickly, in a matter of hours or days, usually through online applications. Applicants typically apply for loans under $250,000, the amount most small business owners in the U.S. are looking for, researchers say. The cash for the loans comes from banks, hedge funds and other investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rapidly Expanding Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Great Recession, as big banks cut down on their small business lending, fintech stepped in to fill the unmet demand for credit. The industry has boomed, putting it on track to lend as much as $90 billion a year by 2020. That's according to analysts cited in \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Documents/Opportunities_and_Challenges_in_Online_Marketplace_Lending_white_paper.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech lenders are expanding access to capital while slashing the time and cost of underwriting small-dollar loans. That's a game changer for entrepreneurs trying to grow and create jobs, said Karen Mills, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is a really positive thing for the small business owner,\" said Mills, who headed the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The innovations in financial technology, Mills added, could particularly help women- and minority-owned businesses, as well as other markets underserved by traditional financial institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as more small business owners have run into trouble after taking expensive online loans, there's been a growing call for greater oversight, said Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If fintech is going to be a solution for small-dollar loans, it is extremely important that we make it transparent and make sure the bad actors don't take advantage of some of these small business owners,\" said Mills, who is working with federal regulators on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Loans Are Fast and Easy To Use, Say Borrowers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convenience was a major reason Tina Paclebar and Jane Nacelli, the owners of a Hayward delivery company, began using online loans from a San Francisco-based fintech company called Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they applied over a year ago, Fundbox connected to their accounting software. Fundbox's algorithms then crunched through their income, expenses and how much they were owed by clients, to calculate whether to give them a revolving line of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the click of a button, Nacelli and Paclebar can borrow up to $22,500, and the money will be deposited in their bank account within two days, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's convenient and integrated and it gives you that peace of mind that you have a backup plan when you need plan B,\" said 46-year-old Paclebar. The couple has used those loans to buy vehicles to expand their business and cover drivers' salaries when clients take longer than expected to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4919px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11610847 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4919\" height=\"3433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg 4919w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1920x1340.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4919px) 100vw, 4919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Nacelli (left) and Tina Paclebar stand with their daughter Kameron, 8, and dog Waffle at their company's offices in Hayward. \"They were willing to give us money and we needed it at the time,\" said Paclebar of online lender Fundbox. \"Sometimes you just have to take a chance.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paclebar and Nacelli had applied to their longtime bank, Citibank, for a $75,000 loan to upgrade their vehicle fleet this year. But after turning in their paperwork, going through interviews and waiting for weeks, the bank rejected them, the women said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Big banks have not worked for us,\" said Nacelli, 41, adding that the bank cited minor past late credit card payments for declining the loan. Citibank declined to comment on their application, citing customer privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Fundbox doesn't consider personal credit scores when deciding whether to approve a loan. That opens the online lender to work with entrepreneurs who may have lower personal credit scores but growing businesses, said Greg Powell, who directs marketing at Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's why what we're doing is, I think, so important. We are really looking at the health of the business and not the individual,\" Powell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the quick access to cash comes at a cost. Fundbox’s clients face an average annual interest rate between 40 and 50 percent, something savvy customers like Paclebar and Nacelli are keenly aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You do look at the fees and you are like, 'Wow, that’s a lot,'\" said Nacelli, pointing to the fees of up to $1,000 for a $6,500 loan. \"But if you take only what you need and you pay it back early, it's a great tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fundbox and other online lenders allow borrowers to save on weekly or monthly fees if they pay back a loan's original amount early, a key feature that Nacelli uses to reduce the expense of their online financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell argues that using \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> interest rates to measure his company's fees inflates the cost of its loans, because their clients have a shorter repayment term, just 3 or 6 months. In addition, his company discloses the dollar amount of their fees up front, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is ever surprised with the amount that they need to repay,\" said Powell. \"We are able to serve small business with the number one thing they need, access to capital, in a fair, transparent and user-friendly way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11610848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Paclebar closes one of her delivery company's 26-foot trucks in Hayward. \"This is a male dominated industry. We have to work 10 times as hard to show we can do the work,\" she said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Nothing Short of Online Payday Lending'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some online lenders are working responsibly, others are less transparent about their costs and underwriting, said Eric Weaver, CEO and founder of Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit lender that has helped dozens of small business owners refinance \u003ca href=\"https://www.opportunityfund.org/media/blog/unaffordable-and-unsustainable-new-opportunity-fund-report/\">expensive online loans\u003c/a>. In other cases, Opportunity Fund has been unable to help business owners too deep in debt, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of these lenders are just lending people way more money than they could afford and they're not disclosing the terms transparently. They never quote an APR,\" or annual percentage rate, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state \u003ca href=\"http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2016/Survey%20Response%20Release%2004-08-16.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of more than a dozen fintech companies operating in California found the median APR for small business loans ranged from 15 to 51 percent. But some online lenders reported loans with APRs of more than 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high costs can force mom and pop shop owners to close, said Jose Corona, director of equity for Oakland’s mayor's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you peel down the layers and see the products they are offering, it’s nothing short of online payday lending,\" said Corona, adding that surveys by the city have revealed that many fintech borrowers are Latino, African-American or Asian residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll go to the minority business to say, ‘Look we have a solution for you.’ But their terms are so predatory that it can actually put people out of business,\" said Corona, who for years directed a local organization that trains and invests in small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Lenders Say They Offer Opportunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other lending industries, riskier customers pay higher costs because they are less likely to repay a loan, said Kathryn Petralia, president and co-founder at Kabbage, one of the largest fintech business lenders in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those risky businesses do pay more, but they need a chance,\" said Petralia, whose company offers short-term loans with APRs from 18 to 99 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have an opportunity to do something they really wanted to do with resources that were previously unavailable to them because nobody thought they were worth it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's true that some customers facing the highest interest rates default on their loans, said Petralia, others are able to use that money to turn profits and become more stable borrowers over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company benefits from clients fully understanding the total cost of their loan so that they are able to calculate if that financing will work for their business, said Petralia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one reason Kabbage, On Deck and other fintech business lenders created an easy-to-read price tag last year -- they call it a Smart Box -- that shows the annual interest rate, fees and total cost of a loan before customers click yes on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This effort by online lenders to increase their transparency is a sign that the industry is maturing, said Harvard's Karen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Phase one was the Wild West. Phase two is partnerships with more banks,\" said Mills, referring to deals such as JPMorgan Chase turning to online lender On Deck to make more small business loans to the bank's customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regulators Try to Catch Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, fintech companies deal with a mix of regulators that oversee different aspects of their business at the state and federal levels. That's why representatives at Fundbox and Kabbage said they are interested in a new proposal by the federal agency that regulates large national banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is considering a license that would allow online to operate as \"special purpose\" banks nationwide. The companies that apply for such a license would not take deposits from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all need the federal banking system to be more inclusive, to accommodate new banks, and to adapt to the changing needs of the marketplace, customers and communities,\" said Keith Noreika, acting comptroller of the currency, in a July \u003ca href=\"https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2017/nr-occ-2017-82.html\">speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulators are against such a federal license because it would result in losing authority to protect consumers, said Jan Lynn Owen, the commissioner of the state's Department of Business Oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are on the ground, we see issues faster,\" said Owen. \"We also believe that the state laws do a much better job of addressing anti-discrimination and fair lending.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York State and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.csbs.org/news/press-releases/pr2017/Pages/042617.aspx\">sued\u003c/a> to stop creation of a national fintech license, arguing that federal authorities are overstepping their authority. Owen agrees with that assessment. California has historically overseen alternative lenders that do not take deposits and she said most online lenders fit that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her agency is gathering data from fintech lenders and looking into requiring companies operating in California to be licensed with the state even if these online lenders are working with out-of-state banks to originate loans, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The laws that we currently have on the books aren't always in the 21st century,\" said Owen, who has been meeting with heads of fintech companies to better understand their business. \"We look to these companies to help us change the laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Che Al-Barri, the cleaning company owner, is wary of too much regulation. He said it could put financing out of reach for people like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If everything gets so regulated that it’s just like banks again, I would have never gotten in a position where I would have gotten any kind of funding,\" said Al-Barri. He added that before he opted for his online loan, he was rejected by several banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri's online loan documents did not disclose an annual interest rate, but what really hurt him, he said, was believing the loan would be a good bet for his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know how they say ignorance is bliss? Ignorance is deadly. It can kill you financially,\" said Al-Barri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since struggling with his loan, he decided to educate himself on how the financial system works and how to use it to his advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has read his copy of \"Personal Finance for Dummies\" several times, and during his long drives across the Bay Area for work, he listens to audio books on finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Financial literacy is the key,\" said Al-Barri. \"If you don't know how to manage your finances and business, you're going to lose it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri was able keep his business. He used his income and borrowed from close friends and family to repay most of his loan. He was then able to refinance the remainder of his debt through Opportunity Fund, the nonprofit lender, at a lower interest rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he gets offers for more financing \"all the time,\" he said. But he ignores them.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Online lenders have made it much easier for small business owners to get financing. Critics say while some companies are lending responsibly, others are hurting entrepreneurs with high costs and opaque terms. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1505154106,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":64,"wordCount":2542},"headData":{"title":"'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business | KQED","description":"Online lenders have made it much easier for small business owners to get financing. Critics say while some companies are lending responsibly, others are hurting entrepreneurs with high costs and opaque terms. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business","datePublished":"2017-09-07T00:55:03.000Z","dateModified":"2017-09-11T18:21:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11610571 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11610571","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/06/fintech-loans-a-sometimes-costly-lifeline-for-small-business/","disqusTitle":"'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/FaridaOnlineLending.mp3","path":"/news/11610571/fintech-loans-a-sometimes-costly-lifeline-for-small-business","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Che Al-Barri remembers feeling like he was drowning in debt last year. He had taken out a $70,000 loan for his small cleaning company, but was struggling to repay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lender, a financial technology -- or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/02/10/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-fintech-in-2017/#52992e173340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fintech\u003c/a> -- company, automatically collected $331 from his bank account daily, Monday through Friday. The frequent hits depleted his income and took a toll on his business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you get hit every single day you have no time to breathe,\" said Al-Barri, 45, who grew up in Richmond. \"It put me up against the wall. There was many times I pulled the covers over my head and just laid there like, 'Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri's predicament points to an intensifying debate about the booming online lending industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/FaridaOnlineLending.mp3","title":"Part 1: Online 'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business","program":"KQED News","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26158_IMG_0814-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/OnlineLoanTrouble.mp3","title":"Part 2: Online 'Fintech' Loans: A Sometimes Costly Lifeline for Small Business","program":"KQED News","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nMany observers see glittering potential for fintech companies to solve an age-old problem: connecting entrepreneurs -- especially in minority and low-income communities struggling to get financing from banks -- with capital to grow their businesses. Critics counter the fast-changing sector is operating in a regulatory void and that some online lenders are sinking vulnerable business owners with exorbitant costs and grueling repayment terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Al-Barri, taking a big loan seemed like a great opportunity at first. Large clients were taking months to pay him, he said, and he wanted to buy equipment and hire employees to expand. But he underestimated how much he would earn, making it very difficult to repay the loan plus the $30,000 in interest he owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to get out of a bad situation and jumped into a worse one,\" said Al-Barri, who declined to name the online lender. His company, J.C. Professional Services, cleans high-rise windows, solar panels and office buildings throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech companies use electronic data and computer algorithms to screen borrowers quickly, in a matter of hours or days, usually through online applications. Applicants typically apply for loans under $250,000, the amount most small business owners in the U.S. are looking for, researchers say. The cash for the loans comes from banks, hedge funds and other investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rapidly Expanding Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Great Recession, as big banks cut down on their small business lending, fintech stepped in to fill the unmet demand for credit. The industry has boomed, putting it on track to lend as much as $90 billion a year by 2020. That's according to analysts cited in \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Documents/Opportunities_and_Challenges_in_Online_Marketplace_Lending_white_paper.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the U.S. Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fintech lenders are expanding access to capital while slashing the time and cost of underwriting small-dollar loans. That's a game changer for entrepreneurs trying to grow and create jobs, said Karen Mills, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is a really positive thing for the small business owner,\" said Mills, who headed the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The innovations in financial technology, Mills added, could particularly help women- and minority-owned businesses, as well as other markets underserved by traditional financial institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as more small business owners have run into trouble after taking expensive online loans, there's been a growing call for greater oversight, said Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If fintech is going to be a solution for small-dollar loans, it is extremely important that we make it transparent and make sure the bad actors don't take advantage of some of these small business owners,\" said Mills, who is working with federal regulators on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Loans Are Fast and Easy To Use, Say Borrowers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convenience was a major reason Tina Paclebar and Jane Nacelli, the owners of a Hayward delivery company, began using online loans from a San Francisco-based fintech company called Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they applied over a year ago, Fundbox connected to their accounting software. Fundbox's algorithms then crunched through their income, expenses and how much they were owed by clients, to calculate whether to give them a revolving line of credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the click of a button, Nacelli and Paclebar can borrow up to $22,500, and the money will be deposited in their bank account within two days, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's convenient and integrated and it gives you that peace of mind that you have a backup plan when you need plan B,\" said 46-year-old Paclebar. The couple has used those loans to buy vehicles to expand their business and cover drivers' salaries when clients take longer than expected to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4919px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11610847 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4919\" height=\"3433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602.jpg 4919w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1920x1340.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26163_alt_602-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4919px) 100vw, 4919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Nacelli (left) and Tina Paclebar stand with their daughter Kameron, 8, and dog Waffle at their company's offices in Hayward. \"They were willing to give us money and we needed it at the time,\" said Paclebar of online lender Fundbox. \"Sometimes you just have to take a chance.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paclebar and Nacelli had applied to their longtime bank, Citibank, for a $75,000 loan to upgrade their vehicle fleet this year. But after turning in their paperwork, going through interviews and waiting for weeks, the bank rejected them, the women said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Big banks have not worked for us,\" said Nacelli, 41, adding that the bank cited minor past late credit card payments for declining the loan. Citibank declined to comment on their application, citing customer privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Fundbox doesn't consider personal credit scores when deciding whether to approve a loan. That opens the online lender to work with entrepreneurs who may have lower personal credit scores but growing businesses, said Greg Powell, who directs marketing at Fundbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's why what we're doing is, I think, so important. We are really looking at the health of the business and not the individual,\" Powell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the quick access to cash comes at a cost. Fundbox’s clients face an average annual interest rate between 40 and 50 percent, something savvy customers like Paclebar and Nacelli are keenly aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You do look at the fees and you are like, 'Wow, that’s a lot,'\" said Nacelli, pointing to the fees of up to $1,000 for a $6,500 loan. \"But if you take only what you need and you pay it back early, it's a great tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fundbox and other online lenders allow borrowers to save on weekly or monthly fees if they pay back a loan's original amount early, a key feature that Nacelli uses to reduce the expense of their online financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell argues that using \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> interest rates to measure his company's fees inflates the cost of its loans, because their clients have a shorter repayment term, just 3 or 6 months. In addition, his company discloses the dollar amount of their fees up front, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is ever surprised with the amount that they need to repay,\" said Powell. \"We are able to serve small business with the number one thing they need, access to capital, in a fair, transparent and user-friendly way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11610848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/RS26161_IMG_0849-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Paclebar closes one of her delivery company's 26-foot trucks in Hayward. \"This is a male dominated industry. We have to work 10 times as hard to show we can do the work,\" she said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Nothing Short of Online Payday Lending'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some online lenders are working responsibly, others are less transparent about their costs and underwriting, said Eric Weaver, CEO and founder of Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit lender that has helped dozens of small business owners refinance \u003ca href=\"https://www.opportunityfund.org/media/blog/unaffordable-and-unsustainable-new-opportunity-fund-report/\">expensive online loans\u003c/a>. In other cases, Opportunity Fund has been unable to help business owners too deep in debt, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of these lenders are just lending people way more money than they could afford and they're not disclosing the terms transparently. They never quote an APR,\" or annual percentage rate, said Weaver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state \u003ca href=\"http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2016/Survey%20Response%20Release%2004-08-16.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of more than a dozen fintech companies operating in California found the median APR for small business loans ranged from 15 to 51 percent. But some online lenders reported loans with APRs of more than 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high costs can force mom and pop shop owners to close, said Jose Corona, director of equity for Oakland’s mayor's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you peel down the layers and see the products they are offering, it’s nothing short of online payday lending,\" said Corona, adding that surveys by the city have revealed that many fintech borrowers are Latino, African-American or Asian residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll go to the minority business to say, ‘Look we have a solution for you.’ But their terms are so predatory that it can actually put people out of business,\" said Corona, who for years directed a local organization that trains and invests in small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Online Lenders Say They Offer Opportunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in other lending industries, riskier customers pay higher costs because they are less likely to repay a loan, said Kathryn Petralia, president and co-founder at Kabbage, one of the largest fintech business lenders in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those risky businesses do pay more, but they need a chance,\" said Petralia, whose company offers short-term loans with APRs from 18 to 99 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have an opportunity to do something they really wanted to do with resources that were previously unavailable to them because nobody thought they were worth it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's true that some customers facing the highest interest rates default on their loans, said Petralia, others are able to use that money to turn profits and become more stable borrowers over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company benefits from clients fully understanding the total cost of their loan so that they are able to calculate if that financing will work for their business, said Petralia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one reason Kabbage, On Deck and other fintech business lenders created an easy-to-read price tag last year -- they call it a Smart Box -- that shows the annual interest rate, fees and total cost of a loan before customers click yes on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This effort by online lenders to increase their transparency is a sign that the industry is maturing, said Harvard's Karen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Phase one was the Wild West. Phase two is partnerships with more banks,\" said Mills, referring to deals such as JPMorgan Chase turning to online lender On Deck to make more small business loans to the bank's customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regulators Try to Catch Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, fintech companies deal with a mix of regulators that oversee different aspects of their business at the state and federal levels. That's why representatives at Fundbox and Kabbage said they are interested in a new proposal by the federal agency that regulates large national banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is considering a license that would allow online to operate as \"special purpose\" banks nationwide. The companies that apply for such a license would not take deposits from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all need the federal banking system to be more inclusive, to accommodate new banks, and to adapt to the changing needs of the marketplace, customers and communities,\" said Keith Noreika, acting comptroller of the currency, in a July \u003ca href=\"https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2017/nr-occ-2017-82.html\">speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulators are against such a federal license because it would result in losing authority to protect consumers, said Jan Lynn Owen, the commissioner of the state's Department of Business Oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are on the ground, we see issues faster,\" said Owen. \"We also believe that the state laws do a much better job of addressing anti-discrimination and fair lending.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York State and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.csbs.org/news/press-releases/pr2017/Pages/042617.aspx\">sued\u003c/a> to stop creation of a national fintech license, arguing that federal authorities are overstepping their authority. Owen agrees with that assessment. California has historically overseen alternative lenders that do not take deposits and she said most online lenders fit that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her agency is gathering data from fintech lenders and looking into requiring companies operating in California to be licensed with the state even if these online lenders are working with out-of-state banks to originate loans, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The laws that we currently have on the books aren't always in the 21st century,\" said Owen, who has been meeting with heads of fintech companies to better understand their business. \"We look to these companies to help us change the laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Che Al-Barri, the cleaning company owner, is wary of too much regulation. He said it could put financing out of reach for people like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If everything gets so regulated that it’s just like banks again, I would have never gotten in a position where I would have gotten any kind of funding,\" said Al-Barri. He added that before he opted for his online loan, he was rejected by several banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri's online loan documents did not disclose an annual interest rate, but what really hurt him, he said, was believing the loan would be a good bet for his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know how they say ignorance is bliss? Ignorance is deadly. It can kill you financially,\" said Al-Barri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since struggling with his loan, he decided to educate himself on how the financial system works and how to use it to his advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has read his copy of \"Personal Finance for Dummies\" several times, and during his long drives across the Bay Area for work, he listens to audio books on finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Financial literacy is the key,\" said Al-Barri. \"If you don't know how to manage your finances and business, you're going to lose it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Barri was able keep his business. He used his income and borrowed from close friends and family to repay most of his loan. He was then able to refinance the remainder of his debt through Opportunity Fund, the nonprofit lender, at a lower interest rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he gets offers for more financing \"all the time,\" he said. But he ignores them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11610571/fintech-loans-a-sometimes-costly-lifeline-for-small-business","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_20427","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11610846","label":"news_72"},"news_11477752":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11477752","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11477752","score":null,"sort":[1497633308000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"black-bay-area-businesswomen-strive-to-beat-odds","title":"Black Bay Area Businesswomen Strive to Beat Odds","publishDate":1497633308,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Karen Smith worked for decades as an office administrator and hated it. So she changed her life radically: She launched a business making jewelry five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she made beaded bracelets. Then she taught herself how to work with metal, mostly by reading books and watching YouTube videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\"I \u003cem>looooove\u003c/em> doing this,\" said Smith, as she lit a torch in her tiny Oakland studio and soldered a silver ribbon to make a ring. \"I have never in my adult life had a job where I felt the freedom and passion that I feel now with my work. This is what I'm meant to do.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But money to run and grow her company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nuspiritdesigns.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NuSpirit Designs\u003c/a>, has been a problem from the get-go. Smith launched it without much in savings, family to borrow from, income from a job, or assets to leverage for a loan.\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/328244869\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"250\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's experience isn't unique. Little access to capital is an important reason businesses owned by African-Americans tend to \u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/race-and-entrepreneurial-success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not grow as much\u003c/a> and as fast as other firms. The problem is more acute for women, said economist Alicia Robb, with the University of Colorado at Boulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Women have far lower levels of income and wealth when compared to men, so this issue around financial capital is going to be worse for women,\" said Robb, who has studied minority entrepreneurship for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women-owned businesses earn much less on average than men, and black businesswomen in particular have the lowest average revenues among all groups of entrepreneurs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/Womens-Business-Ownership-in-the-US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> a recent report by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's startup capital came from selling her beloved car, a Corolla with tortoise-shell interiors, for about $7,500. Learning how to succeed in the notoriously cutthroat retail industry has been like trying to climb a mountain while running on a hamster wheel, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really a challenge because there's so much that you have to know and learn when you don't have capital to pay people,\" said Smith. \"If I had a production assistant and someone who could do work on my website, things would be moving much faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11512755 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith solders a silver ring in her studio in Oakland on May 9, 2017. \"It’s been a really long time since I bought myself fancy shoes, or took a lovely vacation, or even paid myself a salary, but I wouldn’t trade what I do now for anything,\" said Smith. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'We Just Don't Have That Access'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevonne Ratliff, the owner of a natural hair and skin-care line, believes limited access to cash is one main reason she doesn't know of any other black store owners in San Francisco's Lower Haight, where she recently opened a shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area used to be more diverse, close to a neighborhood famous for its jazz musicians and rich African-American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's so cool that I'm right by the Fillmore and I have black people who are from here, from the neighborhood, and they stop by and they are like, 'Wow, we are so happy you are here. To see a black-owned business reminds us of old times,' \" said Ratliff, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has lost more than half of its African-American population in the last five decades: from 96,000 residents\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 1970\u003c/a> to about 47,000 in 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> U.S. Census data. Many factors have contributed to the decline, including the high cost of living and doing business in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As African-Americans and certain people of color, we just don't have that access or that family backing or the influential people that can help you gain cash to start your business,\" said Ratliff, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratliff started \u003ca href=\"http://beijaflornaturals.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beija Flor Naturals\u003c/a> with her unemployment check after losing her job at a tech startup during the Great Recession. But she found ways to keep both her living and business costs down and turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11508697 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevonne Ratliff chats with customer Jennifer Lujan at her new store in San Francisco on May 24, 2017, as Candace Peters looks on. Ratliff carries jewelry, handbags and other products by local artists and makers. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Harnessing the Power of the Internet\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a one-woman startup, Ratliff formulated concoctions of mango and cocoa butter creams in her mom's kitchen, and began selling the products completely online through the website Etsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard and lonely but at a certain point you're like, 'OK, I'm in too deep,' \" said Ratliff, who lived on a shoestring and couch-surfed with friends to save on rent. \"Also, I just wanted to see where this would lead me, how far I could go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The internet allowed her to invest most of the profits back into buying ingredients to fulfill orders and run the business from her bedroom. \u003c/span>E-commerce also gave her access to customer data that she used to test the market and fine-tune her products to find a niche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the touch of a button, she could answer all kinds of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I'm a stats junkie. I could see what's selling best,\" said Ratliff, who grew up in San Jose. \"Like, w\u003c/span>hat do I need to do, what do people want, what are they responding to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloggers and magazines got hold of her products and sales blew up, said Ratliff. That allowed her to jump on a growing wave in online retail: opening brick-and-mortar stores to reach more customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11508696 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ratliff holds a jar of \"number one bestseller\" creme brulee for kinks, curls and coils, at her store in Oakland's Temescal on Jan. 27, 2017. Opening brick-and-mortar shops fueled sales online, said Ratliff. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ratliff uses her two stores to showcase handbags, clothes and jewelry she carefully selects from local artists and makers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support black women in my business,\" said Ratliff, who expects revenues to top $200,000 this year and is hiring staff. \"I'm really happy I can do that now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding New Clients With Good Old Networking \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Smith, the metal jewelry designer, wanted to move away from selling her products at farmers markets, where sales can depend on the weather, to more steady sources of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her quest to find new opportunities for her business, Smith attended a recent mixer of black businesswomen in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Smith and Ratliff, many of the women who mingled over drinks said they had left unsatisfying jobs or were unemployed when they started their ventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latino entrepreneurs \u003ca href=\"///Users/faridajhabvala/Downloads/Including%20People%20of%20Color%20in%20the%20Promise%20of%20Entrepreneurship%20PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are more likely\u003c/a> than their white and Asian counterparts to start businesses while unemployed, joining the ranks of so-called necessity entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the women at the mixer were just launching startups, others had already blazed successful paths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candice Cox, a former corporate sales executive who now owns a profitable jewelry business, was one of the event's organizers. She and six other artists founded Just Be, a local collective of black women entrepreneurs, to share experiences and support each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels so good to be able to do things that you love to do as a hobby but as a business and get paid for it,\" said Cox, who counts as a client the National Museum of African American History and Culture's shop in Washington, D.C. \"That’s empowering in itself just giving women the confidence that you can make your own destiny. You can create your own path.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Smith, the event was \"soul shifting,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you work for yourself a lot of times you work in solitude, you don’t have co-workers to bounce ideas off and commiserate,\" said Smith. \"So the opportunity to meet other African-American women entrepreneurs is a blessing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the entrepreneurs Smith met there was Kelly Paschal-Hunter, who owns a gallery in the Old Oakland neighborhood. Both women clicked and Paschal-Hunter invited Smith to hold her debut pop-up show at her gallery weeks later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11508686 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Smith, owner of NuSpirit Designs, shows her silver jewelry at Paschal-Hunter Gallery in Oakland on May 13, 2017. Smith chats with clients Shiree Dyson (right) and Dionne Early, who bought silver earrings and a ring. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The jewelry show brought new clients for Smith, and also potential customers for the gallery, said Paschal-Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What she does isn't easy. What I do isn't easy. You know, people don’t need artwork or jewelry every day like they need food,\" said Paschal-Hunter, who left a career as a health care executive to open her gallery last year. \"I saw an opportunity where two female-owned businesses could collaborate, support each other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the successful pop-up, Paschal-Hunter decided she would continue to sell Smith's jewelry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First gallery that has shown interest in my work and I’m super excited,\" said Smith. \"It makes me feel like I’m moving in the direction that I want to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Black-owned businesses have lower survival rates than others, in part because they have less money to start and grow, say economists.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1497993232,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1628},"headData":{"title":"Black Bay Area Businesswomen Strive to Beat Odds | KQED","description":"Black-owned businesses have lower survival rates than others, in part because they have less money to start and grow, say economists.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Black Bay Area Businesswomen Strive to Beat Odds","datePublished":"2017-06-16T17:15:08.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-20T21:13:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11477752 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11477752","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/16/black-bay-area-businesswomen-strive-to-beat-odds/","disqusTitle":"Black Bay Area Businesswomen Strive to Beat Odds","path":"/news/11477752/black-bay-area-businesswomen-strive-to-beat-odds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Karen Smith worked for decades as an office administrator and hated it. So she changed her life radically: She launched a business making jewelry five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she made beaded bracelets. Then she taught herself how to work with metal, mostly by reading books and watching YouTube videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\"I \u003cem>looooove\u003c/em> doing this,\" said Smith, as she lit a torch in her tiny Oakland studio and soldered a silver ribbon to make a ring. \"I have never in my adult life had a job where I felt the freedom and passion that I feel now with my work. This is what I'm meant to do.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But money to run and grow her company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nuspiritdesigns.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NuSpirit Designs\u003c/a>, has been a problem from the get-go. Smith launched it without much in savings, family to borrow from, income from a job, or assets to leverage for a loan.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='250'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/328244869&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/328244869'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's experience isn't unique. Little access to capital is an important reason businesses owned by African-Americans tend to \u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/race-and-entrepreneurial-success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not grow as much\u003c/a> and as fast as other firms. The problem is more acute for women, said economist Alicia Robb, with the University of Colorado at Boulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Women have far lower levels of income and wealth when compared to men, so this issue around financial capital is going to be worse for women,\" said Robb, who has studied minority entrepreneurship for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women-owned businesses earn much less on average than men, and black businesswomen in particular have the lowest average revenues among all groups of entrepreneurs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/Womens-Business-Ownership-in-the-US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> a recent report by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith's startup capital came from selling her beloved car, a Corolla with tortoise-shell interiors, for about $7,500. Learning how to succeed in the notoriously cutthroat retail industry has been like trying to climb a mountain while running on a hamster wheel, Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really a challenge because there's so much that you have to know and learn when you don't have capital to pay people,\" said Smith. \"If I had a production assistant and someone who could do work on my website, things would be moving much faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11512755 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25702_IMG_7245-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith solders a silver ring in her studio in Oakland on May 9, 2017. \"It’s been a really long time since I bought myself fancy shoes, or took a lovely vacation, or even paid myself a salary, but I wouldn’t trade what I do now for anything,\" said Smith. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'We Just Don't Have That Access'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevonne Ratliff, the owner of a natural hair and skin-care line, believes limited access to cash is one main reason she doesn't know of any other black store owners in San Francisco's Lower Haight, where she recently opened a shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area used to be more diverse, close to a neighborhood famous for its jazz musicians and rich African-American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's so cool that I'm right by the Fillmore and I have black people who are from here, from the neighborhood, and they stop by and they are like, 'Wow, we are so happy you are here. To see a black-owned business reminds us of old times,' \" said Ratliff, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has lost more than half of its African-American population in the last five decades: from 96,000 residents\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 1970\u003c/a> to about 47,000 in 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> U.S. Census data. Many factors have contributed to the decline, including the high cost of living and doing business in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As African-Americans and certain people of color, we just don't have that access or that family backing or the influential people that can help you gain cash to start your business,\" said Ratliff, 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratliff started \u003ca href=\"http://beijaflornaturals.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beija Flor Naturals\u003c/a> with her unemployment check after losing her job at a tech startup during the Great Recession. But she found ways to keep both her living and business costs down and turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11508697 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25638_IMG_0670-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevonne Ratliff chats with customer Jennifer Lujan at her new store in San Francisco on May 24, 2017, as Candace Peters looks on. Ratliff carries jewelry, handbags and other products by local artists and makers. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Harnessing the Power of the Internet\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a one-woman startup, Ratliff formulated concoctions of mango and cocoa butter creams in her mom's kitchen, and began selling the products completely online through the website Etsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard and lonely but at a certain point you're like, 'OK, I'm in too deep,' \" said Ratliff, who lived on a shoestring and couch-surfed with friends to save on rent. \"Also, I just wanted to see where this would lead me, how far I could go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The internet allowed her to invest most of the profits back into buying ingredients to fulfill orders and run the business from her bedroom. \u003c/span>E-commerce also gave her access to customer data that she used to test the market and fine-tune her products to find a niche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the touch of a button, she could answer all kinds of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I'm a stats junkie. I could see what's selling best,\" said Ratliff, who grew up in San Jose. \"Like, w\u003c/span>hat do I need to do, what do people want, what are they responding to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloggers and magazines got hold of her products and sales blew up, said Ratliff. That allowed her to jump on a growing wave in online retail: opening brick-and-mortar stores to reach more customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11508696 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25636_IMG_0478-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ratliff holds a jar of \"number one bestseller\" creme brulee for kinks, curls and coils, at her store in Oakland's Temescal on Jan. 27, 2017. Opening brick-and-mortar shops fueled sales online, said Ratliff. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ratliff uses her two stores to showcase handbags, clothes and jewelry she carefully selects from local artists and makers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support black women in my business,\" said Ratliff, who expects revenues to top $200,000 this year and is hiring staff. \"I'm really happy I can do that now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding New Clients With Good Old Networking \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Smith, the metal jewelry designer, wanted to move away from selling her products at farmers markets, where sales can depend on the weather, to more steady sources of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her quest to find new opportunities for her business, Smith attended a recent mixer of black businesswomen in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Smith and Ratliff, many of the women who mingled over drinks said they had left unsatisfying jobs or were unemployed when they started their ventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latino entrepreneurs \u003ca href=\"///Users/faridajhabvala/Downloads/Including%20People%20of%20Color%20in%20the%20Promise%20of%20Entrepreneurship%20PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are more likely\u003c/a> than their white and Asian counterparts to start businesses while unemployed, joining the ranks of so-called necessity entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the women at the mixer were just launching startups, others had already blazed successful paths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candice Cox, a former corporate sales executive who now owns a profitable jewelry business, was one of the event's organizers. She and six other artists founded Just Be, a local collective of black women entrepreneurs, to share experiences and support each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels so good to be able to do things that you love to do as a hobby but as a business and get paid for it,\" said Cox, who counts as a client the National Museum of African American History and Culture's shop in Washington, D.C. \"That’s empowering in itself just giving women the confidence that you can make your own destiny. You can create your own path.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Smith, the event was \"soul shifting,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you work for yourself a lot of times you work in solitude, you don’t have co-workers to bounce ideas off and commiserate,\" said Smith. \"So the opportunity to meet other African-American women entrepreneurs is a blessing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the entrepreneurs Smith met there was Kelly Paschal-Hunter, who owns a gallery in the Old Oakland neighborhood. Both women clicked and Paschal-Hunter invited Smith to hold her debut pop-up show at her gallery weeks later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11508686 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25495_IMG_0637KarenSmith-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Smith, owner of NuSpirit Designs, shows her silver jewelry at Paschal-Hunter Gallery in Oakland on May 13, 2017. Smith chats with clients Shiree Dyson (right) and Dionne Early, who bought silver earrings and a ring. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The jewelry show brought new clients for Smith, and also potential customers for the gallery, said Paschal-Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What she does isn't easy. What I do isn't easy. 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