From BET to Wave45, Tech Entrepreneur Creates Urban Online Video Platform
Starbucks is currently tech entrepreneur Adrian Grant’s new office. After leaving his position as a product manager at BET, he is working full-time on his entrepreneurial endeavours including most recent project, Wave45. Wave45 is an online video platform that curates the best urban videos from music to web series; a startup that makes absolute sense when African-Americans [...]
Read MoreGo From Hustler to Entrepreneur With Jay-Z’s New Facebook App “Empire”
Jay-Z shares how he went from a Marcy Projects hustler to a one of the highest earning hip-hop entrepreneurs in his rhymes, but now he showing you can do it too with new Facebook game, “Empire.” The game incorporates real life situations. With experience points, empire cash, fame cred and karma you can move to [...]
Read MoreYhorLife.com Building an Online Community of Purpose and Shared Values
As recent reports indicate, African-Americans are more interested in hard news with substance than celebrity and gossip news nowadays. Well, that is what minority founder Adylia-Rhenee Gutierrez’s had in mind when creating online community platform, YhorLife.com - creating value driven content without the drama filled celebrity happenings. YhorLife.com is an online community that celebrates hard work, [...]
Read MoreWhy College is the Best Place to Build a Startup
Typically when people think of entrepreneurs, they don’t automatically think of college students, but they should. College is the best time to think big and execute ideas, especially when hustle and grind is naturally part of the curriculum. There are three core reasons why college is the best place to build a startup: The resources [...]
Read More3 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 MorePost Arab Spring, African Startups Should Be Next in Line for Attention
In Accra, the capital of Ghana, it’s not about who you know, what you know, which member’s club you belong to or even which school you used to go to. It’s all about which church you belong to. Ghana is nearly 70% Christian and on Sundays anybody who is anybody heads off to church, not [...]
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