Lisa Price
26 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2017 by Lisa Price · said 9 times in 7 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
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Jun 12, 2017 neutral
Price: Bootstrapping breaks at $2M in sales; scaling requires outside capital
“There comes a point, you know, when you start doing a million and a half, 2,000,002 and a half million in sales, where you can't wing it, you know, like things have to be secure. And that's when investment was definitely needed because there was some winging i…”
Jun 12, 2017 positive
Price: Job satisfaction outside of entrepreneurship unlocked at-home creative energy
“And I think because I was very happy at what I was doing with work, When I had my downtime, and I was not at work, I didn't have that desperate feeling that you feel when you're like, oh god, I'm finally not at work, and I just want to relax, and I just want t…”
Jun 12, 2017 positive
Price: Carol's Daughter expanded its product line based on customer requests
“And if I was out selling somewhere, and someone asked me about something, if I didn't know how to make it, I figured out how to make it. So I learned how to make bath salts. I learned how to make body scrubs, different types of moisturizers. I figured out how …”
Jun 12, 2017 positive
Price: Carol's Daughter scaled early sales through word-of-mouth referral perks
“It was literally one woman telling another woman, and somebody always brought a friend with them. And if you brought a friend, you know, get a free gift or, you know, something off. So it was all of that grassroots type of stuff.”
Jun 12, 2017
Price: Generating customer demand is harder than fulfilling backlogged orders
“What if you didn't have the orders? That seems to me like it would be the harder part to kind of make people be interested and make people purchase. He says, you have the orders, you have their credit card numbers. As soon as you get the stuff made, you'll get…”
Jun 12, 2017 positive
Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 neutral
Price: Lack of Generational Wealth Drove Backlash to Carol's Daughter Sale
“I realize that as a group of people within this world, African American people, historically, we have less experience with generational wealth. We may be successful in certain areas, we may have become rich recently, but we don't really know what generational …”
Jun 12, 2017 negative
Lisa Price: Early 1990s drugstores offered virtually no Black skincare products
“There was definitely a community that needed to be served who was not necessarily being served. It was not something that you could walk into a drugstore and say, oh, look at that. This is fantastic. Great. It wasn't there. It is now, but it wasn't then.”
Jun 12, 2017
Lisa Price launched Carol's Daughter with an initial $100 investment
“That very first flea market, honestly, was an investment of a hundred dollars between, you know, whatever the table rental was, and the ingredients that I had to purchase to fill the baby food jars that I had, and maybe some flowers, you know, to decorate my t…”
Jun 12, 2017
Lisa Price funded Carol's Daughter's first storefront with sons' college savings
“We had some small accounts set up for our sons for their college, and we took it. You know, my boys were very, very young. You know, we took You know, between their two accounts, I don't know, something like 3500 dollars out of the bank, and then one of my aun…”
Jun 12, 2017
Aug 6, 2018 positive
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018
Price named her company Carol's Daughter after her mother
“I called the company Carol's Daughter. I did have a name, and I called it Carol's Daughter because that's literally who I was. My mom was Carol, and I was her daughter. And the products that I sold, I called them Fragrant Moisture Butter at the time.”
Aug 6, 2018 positive
Oprah mention crashed Carol's Daughter website, surging traffic to 17,000 visitors
“We had our website go from having 37 people in it, and within four minutes of my segment, the audience in the website went from, you know, whatever it was, thirty-something people to 17,000 people. Wow. The website actually crashed.”
Aug 6, 2018 positive
Aug 6, 2018
Price funded her first storefront by draining her sons' college savings
“We had some small accounts set up for our sons for their college, and we took it. You know, my boys were very, very young. You know, we took, you know, between their two accounts, I don't know, something like 3500 dollars out of the bank. And then one of my au…”
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018
Price launched Carol's Daughter with a $100 investment and baby food jars
“That very first flea market, honestly, was an investment of a hundred dollars between, you know, whatever the table rental was, and the ingredients that I had to purchase to fill the baby food jars that I had, and maybe some flowers, you know, to decorate my t…”
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018
Big acquirers buy profitable businesses with strong margins, not struggling ones
“A lot of people think that you know, you're not doing so well, so they pick you up for a song, and it doesn't work that way. You have to be profitable, you have to be doing well, you have to have good profit margins, and they have to see growth coming from you…”
Dec 20, 2018 negative
Deferring to veteran executives was perceived as founder weakness by Lisa Price
“I decided that I was going to take the position of, I'm not gonna sit at the head of the table, I'm gonna sit at the table with everyone Because there's so much that I need to learn, and unfortunately, that was perceived as a weakness, and it was perceived as …”
Dec 20, 2018
Lisa Price committed to Carol's Daughter full-time due to childcare costs
“In 1996, I was, ah, pregnant with my first son, Forrest. He's now 22, but he was born in March of 96, and I basically looked at my schedule and figured out that if I tried to continue working along with trying to take care of a newborn, I would basically have …”