Help Teens from Low Income Communities Become Entrepreneurs
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) for a group of startup, savvy people to be mentors next week at highschools in San Francisco, Calif. You’ll need to commit to a morning or an afternoon. No preparation necessary. Here is the schedule: Tuesday 9-12 and 1-4: Building a product, payment processing, setting up a website 1/2 Wed [...]
Read MoreWhite House Business Council and the Office of Public Engagement to Host Urban Entrepreneurship Forums in New Orleans and Atlanta
The White House Business Council and the Office of Public Engagement announced that they will host two Urban Entrepreneurship Forums in New Orleans, La on Wednesday, July 20th and in Atlanta, Ga on Friday, July 29th. Each forum will focus on ways to best support economic growth in America’s cities and providing the necessary tools [...]
Read MoreVideo: Mitch Kapor on the value of the NewMe Accelerator and what Kapor Capital looks for in startups
The NewMe Accelerator just completed it’s first full week of working with amazing mentors and speakers from the Silicon Valley. Closing out the week NewMe startups had a chance sit down for one on one sessions with well known Venture Capitalist Mitch Kapor @mkapor of Kapor Capital. Before the sessions begin Mitch talked to the [...]
Read MoreTwo 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be a minority in tech during Startup Weekend
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend Triangle Startup Weekend in Durham, N.C. It was the fourth startup weekend event for the Triangle area, but even with a record attendance of about 170, there were only a small number of people who participated in a startup weekend event before. I would guess about [...]
Read MoreAs Unemployment Rises for African Americans, Digital Literacy Could be the Solution, Part II
In a recent post I talked about the continued disproportionately high unemployment rates among African Americans, and why we must develop innovative solutions now to counteract those trends. I argued primarily that there is an opportunity to train the unemployed to fill the jobs technology companies, hungry for talent, are longing to fill. But what [...]
Read MoreConfessions of a Life-Long Entrepreneur from Russell Simmons
On Monday, I will be delivering the opening keynote address at the Urban Entrepreneurship Summit at Rutgers Business School in Newark, which is being co-hosted by the White House. It is a pleasure to work closely with this great president and his administration to support private/public relationships like this one. At the summit, I will [...]
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