Harlem has become a hotbed for entrepreneurship. Business incubators and gentrification are shaping the business scene.
Presidential candidate Jim Webb, the former Senator of Virginia, shared his discontent with the Democratic debate.
In this week’s edition of the CBC Message to America, Congressman Donald Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) discusses how African-American owned small business are vital to the success of our economy and the nation. Rep. Payne began his address by reminding Americans about the impact small businesses have on the U.S. economy. “Currently, small business create two […]
NewsOne continues our weekly events calendar for Chicagoans looking to network as summer winds down.
Nicole Valentine, a Wall Street Corporate M &A Lawyer who launched New York-based her start-up, shares how to do it.
How to set priorities and what to actually prioritize is more difficult now than ever – we are all trying to keep up with the competing goals and pressures in our lives, all designed to deliver varying types of satisfaction and fulfillment. During my entrepreneurial career, I have learned that I work and perform at my […]
I have always said that personal and professional priorities in my life not only compete with each other, but also that they are interdependent priorities for me. I really rely on this interdependence to build a life that is serendipitous by design. As a result, there is no delineation between my professional or personal life. […]
Gen Y has been dubbed the “entrepreneurial generation,” as many millennials are passing up corporate jobs to be at the helm of something they have created. For most young professionals who attempt to start their own ventures seeing success out of the gate is quite rare, forcing many millennials to work full-time jobs with a […]
Community Heroes: an in-depth series on the lives and impact of people giving back to our global communities. Keith Dent Base Of Operations: Jersey City, N.J. Why he is a Community Hero: As an assistant director of Rising Tide Capital, an organization committed to assisting entrepreneurs, Keith Dent help to facilitate programs in the working-class cities […]
In the past five years, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the way entrepreneurs go about raising capital for new business ventures. Although these sites have helped turn countless of startup pipe-dreams into a reality, a significant number of entrepreneurs, Blacks in particular, aren’t necessarily feeling the same love…until now. BlackStartup recently made […]
A program aimed at helping jumpstart the local economies of struggling cites is pairing high-performing college graduates and business startups in cities like Detroit, New Orleans and Providence, R.I. Modeled after Teach For America, Venture For America is a two-year program that places recent college graduates into business startups. “Our concrete goal is to generate […]
