3 HBCU Graduates Hope to Drive Innovation and Change the Way People Give Gifts With New Startup
Post submitted via Article Submission Form NoBadGift.com is a Baltimore-based start-up founded by Morgan State University alumni, Mckeever E. Conwell II, Sam Henry, and Michael Washington. Their goal: to make gift giving easier and more affordable. Their solution could not have come at a better time for many Americans who will soon face spending an [...]
Read MoreMother Daughter Team Launch Gift Giving Startup To Help Make Giving Easy This Holiday Season
Post submitted via Article Submission Form “Buying Christmas gifts for family doesn’t have to be a chore,” according to Teresa Savage, CEO and co-founder of Gift Caddie, a new and free online service that makes finding the perfect gift as easy as online banking. Gift Caddie was born out of family issues, trying to figure [...]
Read MoreDreamIt Ventures Graduates Five Minority Led Companies
Today startup incubator DreamIt Ventures, is graduating 14 new startups from its fifth graduating class in Philadelphia and five of them are from minority owned. This year’s class features minority led startups through the Comcast Ventures collaboration and its Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program. The five startups include: ElectNext : an online platform that allows voters to easily figure [...]
Read MoreBlack Founders’ Launch Study Group and Startup Challenge for the Lean Launchpad
Black Founders is launching a study group and startup challenge for The Lean Launchpad participants in February. The Lean Launchpad is a free online course hosted by Stanford University and taught by a serial entrepreneur and professor at Stanford University, Steve Blank. Black Founders will host a weekly, one-hour, online study group focusing on the video [...]
Read MoreHow to Build Sustainable Journalism Startups
In the current media landscape where online startups are looking to fill the void left by wilting traditional media, starting a business is only the beginning. Though first steps are important, many startups are starting to face problems in sustaining their enterprises. This is what a new study by the Renaissance Journalism Center seeks to understand. The [...]
Read MoreTurntable.fm Upgrades, Aims to Make DJing Easier
Turntable, the most original and interesting music service to come along in years, launched an overhaul of its interface Thursday in a bid to make itself less intimidating to newcomers. Once you get inside a Turntable room, everything’s peachy: avatars cluster together amiably, chatting and listening to tunes spun by up to 5 DJs, bobbing [...]
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