Kiratiana Freelon, editor for BlackAtlas.com and author of Kiratiana’s Travel Guide to Black Paris, comments on The Atlanta Post regarding the deficiency of black tech entrepreneurs and her own efforts to start a tech company without a technical background via partnerships and sourcing. Amplify’d from atlantapost.com Making Black Tech Entrepreneurs 100% Viable In the past [...]
If you want an empire state of mind, Zack Greenburg’s Jay-Z book, entitled Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office was released today full of mogul wisdom and commentary. Amplify’d from blogs.forbes.com Jay-Z’s Business Commandments Jay-Z has repeatedly proven his ability not just to know where the money is, [...]
Amplify’d from www.eurweb.com Swizz Beatz Shows NYU Students How to Hustle *Swizz Beatz has been given the honor of teaching students at New York University as the school’s first producer in residence. He says while he’s teaching, he’ll be helping students launch their careers. “For me, the music comes last,” Swizz reveals. “Well, in my [...]
Has hip hop been reduced to moving albums and moving other folk’s products as a secondary income stream? Have we lost touch with the artistry, commentary, and dialogues that were part of the birth of hip hop to embrace promotion and profit motive as the primary aim? Omar Burgess gives us all something to think [...]
The open source Android operating system and processors custom-manufactured to optimize specific mobile operating systems will result in a phone war that will only frustrate anybody who has to have the latest and greatest phone. As faster, smaller, more efficient devices are introduced within months of the last device, mobile phone service providers will likely [...]
Newspapers and technology have evolved using the iPad as their host and this new creation is called The Daily. Let the Digital Renaissance begin. Amplify’d from www.uncrate.com The Daily It’s not every day a new national newspaper launches, but it’s even more rare — as in, never happened before — for that paper to never [...]
I saw this on Facebook a day or two ago and now it’s making the rounds across the rest of the internet. It’s a funny look back on 1994 and a sense of just how much the internet has become a huge part of our lives versus being something of an oddity back then. Time [...]
Herman Cain is a conservative Godfather (CEO and President of Godfather’s Pizza) who may make a run for President in 2012. He’s not a Republican insider, supports the Tea Party, and has some ground to cover in gaining African-American support, so many call him a long shot. Given the historic election of President Obama in [...]
Recent Census Bureau statistics indicates that Black residents are leaving large U.S. cities. This shift could alter African American political power in the coming decades if the trend continues. According to preliminary Census reporting released in December, the nation’s capital has gained nearly 30,000 new Washingtonians in the past ten years–but this new population is [...]
New avenues for funding are precious for entrepreneurs in every vein. If your hustle can use an infusion of cash or ideas on how to tap into fresh investors, read on! Your start-up will love you for it! 1. Crowdfunding This concept involves gathering a large donation pool for your start-up through small donations from [...]
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