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From a Side Hustle to a Business to a Company Tiffany Miller is Scaling Up

February 27, 2021

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. To make a business succeed, it requires hard work, determination, sweat, luck, gumption and an entrepreneurial spirit that can’t be put into words. When the City of Milwaukee Health Department commissioned entrepreneur Tiffany Miller to make 36,000 face masks for its mask […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Black Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Face Masks, Fly Blooms, Tiffany Miller

7 Scooops by the Ice Kream Klub is by Kids for Kids, just ask their 6-year-old CEO

January 11, 2020

By Dylan Deprey If there’s one word to describe Kaliyah Wheeler, it’s vibrant. The 6-year-old smiles from ear-to-ear as she colors in designs on her tablet. Her favorite color is blue, and she loves every ice cream flavor. Her giggles are enchanting and it matches her outfit. The bright pink and blue sweat suit pairs […]

Popular Interests In This Article: 7 Scooops by The Ice Kream Klub, Dylan Deprey, Entrepreneurship, Kaliyah Wheeler

Local Activist Suits Himself By Suiting Others

April 22, 2016

by K. Barrett Bilali Urban News Service They say that clothes make the man. Kevin Livingston brings that maxim to life. When he was 15, New York City cops grabbed Livingston in Queens and arrested him for armed robbery. “Thank God for the principal of my school,” Livingston said. “He came and showed the police […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Entrepreneurship, K. Barrett Bilali, Kevin Livingston

NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges

March 18, 2016

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service “My ethnicity has been empowering and encouraging for my community,” she says. “I am the first African-American balloon artist that most children in the region have seen, especially inner-city African- American children. Oftentimes, people will book me because of my color and age. Sometimes, I am even hired to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Entrepreneurship, Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship, NFTE

Where is Today’s Madam C.J. Walker?

March 11, 2016

‘Let’s Keep Our Entrepreneurial Gene Thriving!’ by Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madam C.J. Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs to develop and manufacture a hair pomade, of empowering tens of thousands of women as sales […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Entrepreneurship, Julianne Malveaux, Madame C.J. Walker

What Does It Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur?

February 26, 2016

by Armstrong Williams NNPA News Wire Columnist Time is one of those magical dimensions of the human experience. At certain instances it seems like there is not enough of it. And at others, it seems like the moment lasts forever. The intellectual and emotional experience in the passage of time is one of those unique […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Armstrong Williams, Entrepreneurship

Black-led Start Up Capitalizes on Natural Gas Bonanza

December 18, 2015

by Jared Anderson Urban News Service A black entrepreneur’s “power move” on the energy sector could create hundreds of jobs in one of the the poorest communities in Texas. Houston-based businessman Phillip Franshaw is building Annova LNG, a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas export facility on the Brownsville Ship Channel along the Texas Gulf Coast. If […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Annova LNG, Entrepreneurship, Exelon, Jared Anderson, Phillip Franshaw

Free UW Legal Clinic Gives A Hand To Local Startups

December 4, 2015

Law Students Helped 300 Clients Last Year by Parth Shah A free legal clinic for entrepreneurs has helped hundreds of Wisconsin businesses open up shop. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship clinic is run by a group of 20 law students. Under the mentorship of licensed attorneys, they help startups write contracts and handle […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Entrepreneurship, Law Clinic, Parth Shah, UW-Madison

Jaylen Bledsoe, Teenage Millionaire Entrepreneur, Committed to Inspiring More Teens to Business Ownership

October 30, 2015

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service Jaylen Bledsoe, 17, was astonished when a teenager told him his life’s goal was to become a drug dealer. Bledsoe, who gained national attention for creating a thriving Internet design company, could not fathom the youth’s position … at first. “That was his dream,” Bledsoe told Urban News Service […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Entrepreneurship, Jaylen Bledsoe, Young Entrepreneurs University

Series: Black Women Entrepreneurs

July 31, 2015

Series: Black Women Entrepreneurs

By Brianna Rae July 31, 2015     Always powerful leaders and providers for their communities and beyond, Black women are continuing this legacy and seriously shining in the sphere of business and economic development.   The 2015 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report shows that the number of Black women-owned firms has risen by an […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Women, Black Women Entrepreneurs, Black Women in Business, Entrepreneurship, JULY 31 2015, State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, VOL. 25 NO. 29, Women in Business, Women-Owned Business, Womenable

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