A black-owned national management consulting company CEO, David Kelly, shares his broad perspective on how black businesses can thrive in a difficult economy while becoming less dependent on salaried employment and taking control of their own financial destinies. David shares his mistakes, accomplishments, disapointments and triumphs as his business who grown and endured over the [...]
Where does the ideal startup founder come from? Whom is he or she connected to? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. It mined the data of its more than 115 million users to understand the background of entrepreneurs. The result is an infographic that dives into the educational and [...]
Wayne Sutton, one of the founders of NewMe Accelerator, published an opinion piece on Black Web 2.0 that confronts the harsh reality and difficult challenges of starting a black tech company when funding and experience are in short supply or not optimal as it relates to minority entrepreneurs. Is it impossible to create a Black [...]
A quick slideshow of some folks who garnered attention and made the 2011 Inc. 500|5000 list.