Ypsilanti’s RealKidz takes its first steps into the marketplace
Ypsilanti start-up RealKidz has gotten past the crawling stage and begun to walk on its own two feet.Excerpt:Bit by bit, slowly but steadily, RealKidz is making progress.The Ypsilanti start-up company that sells clothes for plus-size young girls has signed up four independent sales consultants in Michigan. It has also raised $150,000 from angel investors. And its new back-to-school line of clothes finally arrived early this month.”We have the product,” Merrill Guerra, RealKidz’s CEO and founder, said while trying to market her company’s clothes during a women’s business meeting in Novi earlier this month. “Now we need the funds to push it into the marketplace because nobody knows about us.”Read the rest of story here.
Ypsilanti start-up RealKidz has gotten past the crawling stage and begun to walk on its own two feet.
Excerpt:
Bit by bit, slowly but steadily, RealKidz is making progress.
The Ypsilanti start-up company that sells clothes for plus-size young girls has signed up four independent sales consultants in Michigan. It has also raised $150,000 from angel investors. And its new back-to-school line of clothes finally arrived early this month.
“We have the product,” Merrill Guerra, RealKidz’s CEO and founder, said while trying to market her company’s clothes during a women’s business meeting in Novi earlier this month. “Now we need the funds to push it into the marketplace because nobody knows about us.”
Read the rest of story here.
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