Some Black folks need to stop worrying about dumb shyt like hair, natural or weave who gives a fukk.
Asian entrepreneurs trying to smash the black hair care game
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I was supposed to help this girl I know get into the weave game. She does hair and ppl ask her all the time where she gets her hair from or where can they get hair from. I flaked and didnt put down the money (doing some other shyt of my own). She knows where to get the hair from and has the customers (the two biggest things you need a source for the product and consumers) and is scared to go in by herself. She knows she doesnt need my help but still wants me to go half with her. Which leads to a bigger problem as to why black ppl seem to be so afraid of entrepreneurship. All it takes is like 500 to get started, we're young 500 dollars shouldnt be shyt for a young (really any person for that matter) to "risk" in a an almost guaranteed investment shyt really baffled me 
. Ill probably help her get started in a couple weeks, but I almost feel bad cause Ima just be fronting money she can front herself and doing almost no work while taking in a good percentage of the profit 
. Ill probably help her get started in a couple weeks, but I almost feel bad cause Ima just be fronting money she can front herself and doing almost no work while taking in a good percentage of the profit 
Kilgore Trout
Banned
The bigger problem is the WEAVE they sell... 
you know most black people are lazy and dont want to work. lol at opening up their own hair salon
DemureNatural
Pro
I didn't say prevent them from making money
that's not necessarily true through. if there were businesses setup from our grand parents or parents, black people would have no problem maintaining those jobs. problem is every new generation of blacks is expected to be the saviors of the race. we expect folks in their 20s and 30s and be prominent business owners and job creators, it's really ridiculous when you think about it.
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
its a lotta money in it..
i been tryina get in the game but my work hrs been killing a nikka..
ima pm u soon son..
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Weave is not even the issue, it the whole distribution and retail channels where black women and black salons buy products. They've been boxed out of retailing and distribution...my line sister and her sister tried to open a natural hair boutique in DC (prime market) and could not secure a loan, yet these Asians can open a beauty supply like nothing. It's bigger than weave
DemureNatural
Pro
You're right and I realize that...Asians unfortunately do something we (forgive the assumption if you are not black) don't do, stick together...There is no doubt in my mind that you'd have to know someone to get a good spot in DC...
I don't see us (black men) having a presence in the industry, giving sistas a black alternative to spend their money with. Black women are a reflection of black men and vice versa. Both genders need to understand this.
black men didn't train black women to believe they need this particular, unnatural industry. i agree black men have to provide some type of alternative or else it'll never end.
We didn't stop them from being trained either. The truth is that we're trained/brainwashed by the European standard of beauty just like black women are.
Mr Uncle Leroy
All Star
Blacks need to take their problems or challenges and turn it into opportunities and solutions. Cant always be satisfied with what is. Or be complacent with what is. It appears we might have been misinformed, but is it not almost typically, sadly to think blacks, or american blacks are not capable of helping themselves. I thought there must be an insider who knows and cares about the black community. So it appears, the original concept did come from a black guy, the CEO, who identifies himself as black, so there might be a special connectedness to the product. Diishan Imira is black Ethoipian. He has team up with Taylor as CTO, which I think its kinda of early only there is going to be a big focus on techonology. But then that could be an in road, to the asian community. The investors appear to be asian, so they see the value to going from a Sallys Retail shop to a Juanita Williams hair stylist. So they are on board. The advisors are also black. The concept/community has buy in from silicon valley companies.
That is a good thing. Disruption in business means potential for successful change and profits.
But american blacks and the black dichotomy get disproportionately judged the same.
Might be a lucrative business if someone black wants to lend their idea on how the tanning business is not getting "their" tanned color right, and they could get shades of browns, if not an orange tan/tan lines.
Such opportunity should be open to black investors.
Good start. So would be the hair you put on? The cream you put on? The flat iron? The curler? and then the message to go natural. All black.The hair store I go to is black owned
At the moment, how much money could be made from the hair hustle?
Kinda. But there is a market for it. I could sell them to hair and the fix, and go for the natural, take some of that money and fix the community.
Sadly, Obama, has not pushed initiatives specifically for black folks. While Obama considers himself blacks has a black wife and blacks kids went to a black church, some say Obama give blacks the lecture, they need. If blacks are treated unfairly they could sue. But going further is going to Africa setting up a manufacturing shop and sadly making "non-black hair" or find a permanent solutions to turning hair straight...which there should be being that white features is mutation from black millions of years ago. There is also surgery for c00n blacks who want to remove their eye later, which then turns blue.
The team who come up with their idea is black, so the market is open.9 Billion dollars,
Made off of black women insecurities,
I do not blame Indians and Asians,
It's obviously a well working lucrative business,
Hair hatted business I mean
Business is business. The CEO of the idea is black.
How did you get into the business? How much money could be made in your area/region?Funny that this thread came up...I had a sample of a product in my car that just came in from Asia this week...Brazilian Remy 100% Human Hair..been selling good but found some prices that I can really eat from....had local girls feel it and put some in...Hair market is lucrative ....
Where the info at?
Help her out, but make sure she has plan to make money from the investment and then pay you back Or you might have to go into the business, and get a good percentageI was supposed to help this girl I know get into the weave game. She does hair and ppl ask her all the time where she gets her hair from or where can they get hair from. I flaked and didnt put down the money (doing some other shyt of my own). She knows where to get the hair from and has the customers (the two biggest things you need a source for the product and consumers) and is scared to go in by herself. She knows she doesnt need my help but still wants me to go half with her. Which leads to a bigger problem as to why black ppl seem to be so afraid of entrepreneurship. All it takes is like 500 to get started, we're young 500 dollars shouldnt be shyt for a young (really any person for that matter) to "risk" in a an almost guaranteed investment shyt really baffled me
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