The Basics Company: Skinny Latina Owner: Ana Quincoces Product: Cuban-inspired sauces, marinades and rubs Problem: Stagnating sales, lack of growth, disorganized marketing Marcus’s Offer: $75,000 for 15% equity (with conditions) Season/Episode: Season 7, Episode 3 Life Before The Profit Ana Quincoces has lived many lives. In one, long ago, she was a high-powered attorney. In another, she was a mildly famous reality TV star, on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Miami. In her most recent iteration, she’s an entrepreneur with a struggling business that Marcus Lemonis – star of NBC’s The Profit – wants to save. Quincoces started Skinny Latina, an artisan sauce and marinade business, in 2013. But six years later, by the time of Marcus Lemonis’s intervention, the business had…
