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The App That Keeps the Jokes Comin’
What if you could laugh on-demand as easily as you could watch videos on-demand? Well, now you can! Laugh.ly is an app that allows you to listen to the world’s largest library of stand up comedy for...
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You Don’t Have to Live in Silicon Valley to Succeed in Tech
Rodney Williams is not what some would deem the stereotypical, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and this has actually worked in his favor. He is a young, black male, from Baltimore, Maryland, who initially...
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Recap: 500 Startups Unity and Inclusion Summit LA
Over the past weekend, I had the pleasure of hosting the 500 Startups Unity and Inclusion Summit—and united it was. It was great to see so many entrepreneurs of color, all in one location, ready to...
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BE The Code: From NFL Player to Tech Entrepreneur
Mike Brown, a former NFL player and Duke alum, recently launched his startup Win-Win, and as smooth as the opening sentence to this paragraph sounds, this was no easy feat. After being confronted by a...
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Arlan Hamilton: From Tour Manager to Venture Capitalist
When you think about Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, tour managing is probably the last thing that would come to mind. You see, there are very few female venture...
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Equity Allocation Strategies for Minority Tech Startups
At Minority Venture Partners (MVP), an SBA Growth Accelerator, startup teams are paired with expert advisers to help fill in critical knowledge gaps. This pairing is significant, as many of MVP’s...
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How ADIS is Empowering the African Community
African Diaspora Investment Symposium showcased a landscape that is pretty untapped and ripe for growth. Over the weekend, hundreds of people gathered from the motherland to discuss how to increase...
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Slack’s Former Director of Engineering, Leslie Miley, is a Man of His Word
In November of 2016, Black Enterprise spoke with Leslie Miley, who was then the Director of Engineering at Slack, about what he felt were the necessary steps to increase diversity in the tech...
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Hustlers Make the Best Entrepreneurs
Marlon Nichols is the definition of a hustler. After being turned down by his now business partner, Troy Carter, his tenacity and conviction led him to become one of the founding members and the...
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Why Former NFL Player Mike Brown’s Company Is One That Keeps on Winning
Remember that time you guys hung out with us, and watched former NFL player Mike Brown talk about his journey toward building a successful startup? (If you don’t, the clip is below). Well, now he is...
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#BlackSTEMLikeMe Takes Over the Impact Hub
In an evening full of total engagement, immersed in the likes of entrepreneurs, astronauts, National Society of Black Engineers’ leaders and students, the #BlackSTEMLikeMe hashtag rang loud and clear....
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I Have a Gary Vaynerchuk Obsession and You Should, Too!
We typically cover African Americans in business but for this, I had to make an exception. As an avid supporter of the African American community, I will grant Gary Vaynerchuk aka Gary Vee, the “black...
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Kapor Center Helps Launch Startup Network
Recently, the Kapor Center for Social Impact, Devlabs, and the City of Oakland announced the launch of a new initiative to support Oakland-based tech entrepreneurs. The initiative was created as a web...
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Inequality in Tech May be Worse Than We Thought
Yes, we know diversity and inclusion in Silicon Valley is bad. However, a new study from OpenMIC shows the tech industry remains incessantly white and male, despite over a billion dollars invested to...
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BPN Celebrates Black Excellence and Achievement in the Bay
The Black Professional Network (BPN) focuses on empowering young black professionals, both personally and professionally, through valuable networking, community involvement, and development...
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Entrepreneur Kathryn Finney Discusses How Economic Parity Can Be Achieved...
As you know, February is Black History month. I know most of you have been bombarded with Black History facts about the past throughout the month, however, I’d like to take the time to highlight the...
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Improve Engagement on Your Instagram Page With Growth Hacking
So, I had a little chat with our Black Enterprise community on IG Live and realized that some people may not be familiar with the term growth hacking as it is very Silicon Valley. What does it mean to...
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Startup Grind: The One Talk Worth the $750 Ticket Price
After enjoying several talks throughout the day at the Startup Grind Global Conference including the Q&A with Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch; and Mike Brown’s “Tech is the New Black” discussion...
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African Technology Foundation Premieres ‘Venture’
Recently, Lions@Africa and The African Technology Foundation, in association with BootUP Africa, premiered their film, Venture: An Entrepreneur’s Journey. The film chronicles the entrepreneurial...
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Ensuring Digital Access for All in 2017
Chairman Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently made a big decision: to put an end to investigations into what is known as “free data” or “zero-rating” programs. Though the...
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This Black Woman Is Building Apps Without Coding
Tara Reed started out just as any other entrepreneur would; with a business idea and a dream. After hacking a product together, her project received funding from 500 Startups, one of the most...
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Making the Virtual Reality Film with Director Alton Glass
Virtual Reality is one of the hottest new mediums to come to market in the tech and media industry, but does everyone understand how it works? Black Enterprise caught up with filmmaker Alton Glass to...
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Billionaire Investor Chris Sacca Champions Diversity at SXSW
Christine Souffrant Ntim is known for her tenacity and innate ability to hustle, so it’s no wonder she became the topic of conversation after the Chris Sacca one-on-one conversation with Alex Konrad of...
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#WeDC Makes Major Push to Put D.C. Startups on the Map
During SXSW, WeDC made a huge announcement. Joined by Mayor Muriel Bowser, the city aims to become a major entrepreneurship and tech hub poised for innovation, with a huge push toward diversity, and...
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DJ Jazzy Jeff Uses Technology to Bypass Traditional Record Label Distribution
Recently, DJ Jazzy Jeff released a new project, Chasing Goosebumps, but the only difference this time around was that it was super technology centric. “Not only did we decide to make the project in...
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What Does Black Excellence Look Like?
Recently, the Black Professional Network (BPN)—which includes Adjetey Clarence Lassey, Bryan Goodson, Charles Pridgen, Joshua Dawson, Terrell Jones, and Jason Thurman—partnered with Ruben Harris,...
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Huddle Ventures Sends 100 Students to SXSW
SXSW is traditionally known as a flourishing playground for techies, full of nonstop action where even your most experienced tech enthusiast can feel overwhelmed. So what happens when 100 students from...
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Baron Davis is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
During the holiday season, Baron Davis launched Black Santa, which gave us all the feels. He represented the cool, a Santa that was relatable to modern pop culture, who rocked black kicks, black...
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What Does It Take to Make a Virtual Reality Film? (Part 2 of 2)
So, you’ve seen what it’s like inside of a virtual reality headset during Part 1 of our Making the Virtual Reality Film With Director Alton Glass series, but what is the process like to actually make a...
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Angela Benton moves NewMe Accelerator from Silicon Valley to Miami
Angela Benton, the founder of the NewMe Accelerator, has been going strong in the Silicon Valley world of startups since 2011 and felt it was time for a change. Image: Angela Benton When Benton started...
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How to Date in the Digital Age
In a world where technology has pretty much taken over, I’ve been seeing lots of complaints about how relationships are functioning from both my peers and admittedly myself, but have we been doing it...
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Afrobytes Tech Conference Aims to Change the African Narrative
There has been an explosion of innovation in tech on the African continent and African Americans are slow to adapt to the rapidly growing sector but, Black Enterprise is joining forces with multiple...
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One 19-year-old’s Journey from Special Needs to Acclaimed ‘Genius’
Young, brilliant, and talented, Amanda Gorman is taking the world by storm. The 19-year-old poet, writer, and activist was born with special needs, but Gorman didn’t let that stop her from setting...
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Diversity in Silicon Valley and an Uber Engineer’s Suicide
Joseph Thomas signed a contract with Uber’s San Francisco headquarters that would yield him $170,000 as a software engineer, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Yet, just months after purchasing...
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Using Technology to Maximize Productivity
So a few weeks back during #TechTuesday, I was having a massive issue with time management. I am a big proponent of automating my life so that I conserve as much time as possible, but this was beyond...
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Forward: The Doctor’s Office of the Future [VIDEO]
Have you ever dreaded going to the doctor, knowing that you have to sit in a cold, sterile room, only to be poked and probed with equipment that looks like it was set aside as props from a scene in the...
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Introducing RYSE: The Multicultural VOD Network [VIDEO]
Have you ever wished there was a video-on-demand (VOD) platform that specifically showcased multicultural content? Well, now there is. Meet RYSE—a VOD platform with a specific focus on distributing...
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Andrea Hoffman Is Shifting Culture in Silicon Valley
Recently, Andrea Hoffman, strategic growth adviser, author, and founder of Culture Shifting Weekend, held the 3rd annual, Culture Shifting Awards where she pulled the best and the brightest together to...
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Thomas Stovall creates #ImBlackInTech [VIDEO]
Tech hubs are popping up all over the country. Who needs Silicon Valley when there is a hub right in your backyard? In addition to running his company Candid, a platform that tracks and monitors...
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Draper University Offers Scholarships to Increase Diversity
As a huge proponent of this program, and as a graduate myself, I am so excited to share this information; in an effort to increase diversity, Draper University is currently offering scholarships to...
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BE Test Drive: Can the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Reach Iconic Status?
High technology is rapidly shaping the automobile industry’s present and future. Powerful V8 engines, once a staple in cars sold in the U.S., have been replaced with turbocharged, six and even...
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3 Tech Scholarships to Apply for Now
Since Nicki Minaj’s spontaneous offer to foot the bill for select Twitter followers’ college tuition and student loan payments over the weekend, everyone has had college tuition bills and student loan...
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Twitter: Oh You Fancy, Huh?
Twitter recently updated its user interface (UI) before our very eyes, with a new sleek yet subtle look. The simplicity of the new design is so understated that, at first glance, I couldn’t tell you...
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5 Beauty Tech Companies Founded by Black Entrepreneurs
In a world dominated by mobile applications, here are some standouts in the beauty industry that were created by black entrepreneurs. SWIVEL Swivel allows users to discover and book the best...
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Afrikrea Let’s You Shop for Exclusive Fashion From Africa
We spend lots of time on websites looking for the hottest new trends to purchase, but how much of that stuff is made by someone from the motherland itself. While in Paris, Black Enterprise connected...
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Meet the Tech Founders Connecting You to Pharmacies That Deliver
After co-founder Halston Prox watched his busy dad struggle to find the time to pick up his blood pressure medicine from the pharmacy, he decided to join the latest wave of on-demand delivery services...
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LaborX Matches Underrepresented Candidates to Tech Jobs
What if I didn’t go to a top recruiting school or have a relationship with a high-powered tech CEO? Can I still obtain a reputable job in the tech industry? LaborX’s founder says, yes. Recently, Black...
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Startup Acquires $2.1 Million in Seed Funding to Bring Wi-Fi to Africa
(Image: Tizeti) I love seeing all of the tech innovation that is coming out of Africa! It seems like U.S. investors are catching on to this, as well. Tizeti, a startup company launched via the...
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How Gebeya Creates IT Professionals and Increases Career Opportunities Across...
There are so many technical coding schools, boot camps, and recruiting platforms for underrepresented minorities in the U.S., but I was curious to find out more about the companies that were tapping...
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Actionable Steps to Increase Diversity and Inclusion in Tech
Diversity and Inclusion Tech Panel (Image: Nobel Women) Recently, I flew out to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend the 32nd Annual Legislative Conference held by Nobel Women. The topic of discussion...
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