Born From A Tweet, Etsy's New Entrepreneurship Program Could Be Coming To A City Near You

Today at our Innovation Uncensored conference, Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson will announce plans to expand craft-selling classes for low-income people into three more cities. The goal is to host the pilot classes in 10 cities by the end of the year and to create an open-source curriculum.

In a beige-walled Harlem computer lab, 14 women sit at long, open tables. One has a fringe-draped leather bag that she designed. Another is wearing a handmade light-blue knit hat. Others carry their crafts in shopping bags that they leave by their feet. Brandi Harper, a peppy instructor, clicks through slides on a power presentation. She's already been over what to include in business expenses, how to calculate overhead costs, and a formula for factoring profit into pricing. Now it's time to check out the competition.

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