Youth Biz Partners With Clever Girls to Foster Women-Owned Business in Colorado

DENVER - April 20, 2013 - PRLog -- Colorado non-profit Youth Biz has teamed up with Clever Girls Biz Advisors to foster entrepreneurship among women this June through a series of special events featuring Shark Tank success story, Tiffany Krumins. “This is an important partnership because Clever Girls not only works to help women entrepreneurs achieve business success with our mentoring, we are also passionate about helping youth to find their potential as budding entrepreneurs,” said Lorrie Boyer of Clever Girls.

Signature events include a panel presentation about the path to entrepreneurial success featuring Ms. Krumins and local women business leaders, as well as a three day intensive business development retreat featuring one-on-one venture coaching. A portion of proceeds will benefit YouthBiz, Inc., an award winning local non-profit organization that helps urban youth learn how to think and act like entrepreneurs.

About the Panel Presentation:

YouthBiz and Clever Girls Biz Advisors, will host a coffee reception and panel presentation the morning of June 5th at the Denver Post Building located at 101 W. Colfax. The presentation, featuring women entrepreneurs including Ms. Krumins and additional ‘mom-preneurs’ who have found success at business and motherhood, will be open to the public with tickets available for purchase at $25 each through YouthBiz by contacting Andy Szekeres at andy@youthbiz.org.

YouthBiz Executive Director Brandy Bertram notes that, “YouthBiz is proud to partner with Clever Girls Biz Advisors to host an event especially for women and mothers who, through entrepreneurial thinking and actions, are creating financially sustainable and prosperous futures for themselves and their families.”

About the Women’s Business Kick Off Your Bootscamp Retreat:

The retreat will be held June 6 - 9 at a rustic farmhouse on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. There, in Anton, Colo., successful women entrepreneurs and others will instruct and mentor retreat participants during three days of talks, workshops and individualized mentoring, all aimed at providing early-stage business owners with practical and relevant advice for launching and growing their own business.

“What makes this retreat different from a typical business conference is that it will provide attendees a chance to interact one-on-one with proven business experts in a casual environment,” said event organizer Michelle Staley of Clever Girls. “There will be no ball rooms and certainly no

pressure; just support.” Attendance will be limited to only 10 business owners, with nine coaches and guest experts in attendance.

Registration, lodging and speaker information for the Women’s Business Kick Off Your Bootscamp business retreat is limited to 10 registered attendees. More information is available online at www.clevergirlsbizradvisors.com.

About Ms. Krumins

Tiffany Krumins, a participant from the ABC small-business reality show Shark Tank, is known as a modern-day Mary Poppins after bringing her Ava the Elephant talking medicine dispenser to market, Krumins is committed to helping women and young entrepreneurs grow businesses of their own. She will share her experiences with retreat participants and provide tips about getting started, getting exposure and avoiding mistakes.

“I am absolutely thrilled to work one-on-one with women at this retreat,” Krumins said. “So much is learned when women gather and share both their triumphs and failures with one another. While I have accomplished many amazing things in business, I also made mistakes along the way. I look forward to hearing these women’s ideas and figuring out how we can put our creative and determined minds together to move mountains.”

About YouthBiz:

YouthBiz works to advance the social and economic prosperity of youth through the study and practice of entrepreneurship. During 1992’s “Summer of Violence,” eight inner-city teens and a local leader started the organization to teach job and life skills to youth from some of the Denver area’s most underserved communities. In the twenty-one years since, YouthBiz has served over 5,000 youth and distributed over $1.5 million-dollars through their experience-based programs. Just this Spring, YouthBiz was recognized as one of the nation’s most innovative, feasible, and scalable organizations nationally by the Huffington Post, Skoll Foundation and in the Job Raising Challenge.

About Clever Girls Biz Advisors

Founded in 2012 by Colorado entrepreneurs Lorrie Boyer and Michelle Staley, Clever Girls’ is a business management marketing and consulting firm with offices in Denver and Brush, Colo., specializing in helping women start and grown small businesses. Staley, a semifinalist on the ABC reality series Shark Tank, is founder and owner of Busy Breathers, the manufacturer of a unique oxygen cylinder backpack, while Boyer has started and owned several businesses including a syndicated radio show. Clever Girls will host the first women’s business retreat, Women’s Business Kick Off Your Bootscamp, in June 2013. For more information, visit www.clevergirlsbizadvisors.com.