Throughout her career, Dawn Dickson has raised over $6 million from 10,000 investors to back her entrepreneurial ventures. She is also considered a pioneer in Equity Her Crowdfunding, as the first female business founder to use Equity Her Crowdfunding to raise her over $1 million in secure tokens her offering. I’m here.
Dixon, founder and CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based PopCom Inc., spoke about his experiences as an entrepreneur and inventor during the 2022-2023 Robert L. Milligan Readers in Business Lecture at Ohio Wesleyan University. I will tell you. The free event will be held on October 4th at 7:30 PM at the Benes Room in the Hamilton Williams Campus Center at 40 Rowland Avenue, Delaware.
Dickson has over 20 years of experience in technology, marketing and business development. Through PopCom, she built a vending technology platform for vending machines and kiosks. It enables retailers to engage and understand their customers, sell more products, and learn from big data. In 2020, she received a design patent for her PopShop Digital pop-up her shop invention, a vending machine that leverages facial recognition and machine learning technology to capture customer data and insights.
During her career, Dixon was recognized on the first Forbes Next 1000 list, named one of INC Magazine’s Top 100 Female Founders, and named Snapchat’s 2020 OBWS Black Entrepreneur of the Year, as one of the It has received numerous awards and accolades, including: “Heroes in the Movement” by the National Urban League Young Professionals.
Additionally, we have been featured in Black Enterprise magazine, Fortune, Fast Company, Venture Beat, Huff Post, Essence Magazine and more. In recognition of her expertise and achievements, Dixon was invited to testify before Congress’ Small Business Committee in March 2020 as one of the nation’s top retail tech entrepreneurs. .
For more information on Popcom and Dixon, please visit www.popcom.shop.
Ohio Wesleyan’s Milligan Readers in Business Lecture Series was created in 1992 with donations from 1922 OWU class Robert L. “Bill” Milligan and his wife, Mary Cook Milligan, 2002 honorary alumnus . The annual lectures are organized by the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship, committed to enhancing teaching, learning, research, and community service at universities.
For more information about the Center and its mission, please visit www.owu.edu/woltemade.
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