Courtesy of BlackLit via Nia-Tayler Clark
Nia-Tayler Clark
At some point in the near future, Nia-Tayler Clark, in her pursuit to secure capital for her budding business enterprise, will be — pun wholly intended — pitch-perfect.
She must have been pretty persuasive, however, during the pitch competition at Fort Worth’s Global Entrepreneurship Week last month.
She won, pitching to judges her concept, BlackLit, a monthly book subscription box that features the work of Black authors and Black entrepreneurs. She outlined her company’s mission and the need for capital to meet a growing demand.
“Our biggest need right now is building a team,” Clark says in a phone interview. “Thus far, BlackLit has been run out of my one-bedroom apartment.”
With the help of her 4-year-old.
“It’s gotten us pretty far, but we need to hire.”
