there s too much pink in this. don t use the color pink because vcs will be turned off by it. i had to put some grays and black and make it a little more formal. when you go to power women tv, it s pink and gray. power women tv. make no mistake about it. it is interesting. there is a balance. you don t want everything to be pink and girlie. my feedback has been they re not going to take you as serious. not all women are attracted to that. not all women are pinkie. i do feel like because i m in financial services in that world where there s not many of us. it s more so not just conscious branding, i m a chick, i m a brown chick, check it out. if you get me, if you re simpatico, i don t care what gender or color, you can be with me. i don t consciously do that. however, i did avoid pinks, i avoid being too girlie, the problem is you need to be taken
even $100,000 to get to the next level. all the talk this talk is about having access to capital and getting to a point where you re scaleable. meaning you can get women encounter so much trouble getting the money and getting people to believe and invest in them. that s a huge burden. this is part of your personal story. we were looking at women business owners and we re looking at how they started or acquired their businesses. more than 55% of them are starting with either personal or family savings, 6% coming from personal or family assets other than savings, about 11% from a business or personal credit card. and under 1% either getting business loans from the federal or state governments or from the banks. in other words, women are absolutely boot strapping these businesses on their own. they re boot strapping their businesses and for me, i sell funded power women tv for four years. i took my primary job and i said, i believe so much in this mission and this network that i was