By Becky Gillette, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, July 14, 2016. When Marissa C. Simms was graduating from Jackson State University, she looked around and saw many of her fellow graduates were having trouble finding jobs. She decided to solve that problem herself by creating her own job going into partnership with her mother, Camille Stutts Simms, to open the first boutique on the Jackson State University campus, Royal Bleau, in 2011.
The business has done well, in fact earning Marissa the 2014 Small Business Administration Young Entrepreneur Award Winner for Mississippi.
And now the mother-daughter dynamo have two more major efforts underway. One is a a rolling boutique, the Royal Bleau Express, that travels the South to sell at special events like the recent ESSENSE Festival in New Orleans. And another is their new book: The Bleau Print: How to Break Barriers as a Young Entrepreneur and The Bleau Print: Steps to Entrepreneurship in Midlife.
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