Innovation Crisis in Black America, Pt. 1
By Mike Green There is a crisis occurring in 12.3% of the American population, otherwise known as Black America. The crumbling economic infrastructure of the nation has impacted every industry, media included. As a former journalist who voluntarily resigned a position as Web editor of an award-winning daily newspaper (owned by Dow Jones Local Media Group [...]
Read MoreThe $35 Computer and Other Innovations from India
India is often viewed as just a popular foreign country for companies to offshore parts of their business. With a well-educated population that is trained to speak English at an early age, India has indeed absorbed the call centers and software development functions of many members of the Fortune 500. However, India has also become [...]
Read MoreStreets Paved With Tech: A Black Techie in NYC
As technology is an amorphous, constantly evolving entity, I think most techies would agree with me that being involved in the tech sphere lends a level of constant excitement not to be had in other industries. Everyday there’s a chance for the next big thing to break, whether its a new piece of software, a [...]
Read MoreTalent Search: What Black Media Can Learn from Google
When Google launched its famous equation recruitment campaign in Cambridge in September 2004 I was amazed to see how many students from area schools like Harvard and MIT were camped out crunching numbers. Screw class. This was an opportunity for the best to possibly get a position at one of the hottest companies around (Google’s [...]
Read MoreCreating a new generation of technology entrepreneurs Part 3: Get ready to bring your “A” game and turn your haters into your motivators
This is part 3 of my series “Creating the next generation of entrepreneurs.” You can read part 1 and part 2 here as well. First let me say thank you for all the feedback on my earlier posts. I don’t pretend to know everything but I have been blessed with some great experiences and I [...]
Read MoreDeveloping Innovation from Within
Lately I’ve had the time to really catch-up and follow some great tech blogs not to mention have some great conversations with many of you. One thing I noticed which will come as no surprise is we often talk about what we don’t like about a web app and not really about what we’d like [...]
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