entrepreneurship
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With Black unemployment climbing and buy-Black movements falling short, the path forward is building institutions that support Black-owned businesses from the inside out.
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How Dine Diaspora’s cofounders built the Black Women in Food Summit through focus, proactivity, and grace — the three qualities behind every great execution.
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Author Calls For African Entrepreneurs to Talk About Failure Idril Abshir penned this interesting piece arguing that African entrepreneurs should talk about failure more, indicating that they will find resilience in discussing failure. She cites the culture among Western entrepreneurs of acknowledging failure. While the stories in the piece were compelling, I don’t know that…
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Aly-Khan Satchu, one of the most respected equity investors in Kenya, discusses briefly how US-China cooperation would be a benefit to African countries. This aligns with comments Bobby Pittman, managing director of Kupanda Capital made at a session discussing the Electrify Africa Act. More on that sometime later this week. There are rumors of Anheuser-Busch…
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I was glad to see the news about the launch of Valor Ventures, a VC firm led by women and focused on finding women founders. Another firm that excites me is the Impact America Fund. Here’s a good interview it’s founder, Kesha Cash, did with the Andreesen Horowitz team. Some time ago, I posted First…
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No. 87: Build Something From Nothing
Angelina Darrisaw, bobby pittman, C-Suite Coach, cherae robinson, entrepreneurship, Eric Guichard, Eric Osiakwan, fast company, hello tractor, jehiel oliver, Josh Moore, Kwadwo Som-Pimpong, Maame Boakye, MRket, Nana Ama Afari Dwamena, Nina Oduro, odini nwakuche, paul judge, SapidMedia Productions, soylent, Whitney White
Paul Judge has a mantra – build something from nothing. It’s amazing to watch folks I have met along the way live this out. Jehiel Oliver’s startup Hello Tractor was profiled in Fast Company today. It wasn’t too long ago when we sat down at Chinatown Coffee and he told me about this idea he was working…
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I binged on Pranav Vora’s podcast, The Protagonist, this week. Pranav is founder of Hugh & Crye, a really cool startup men’s clothier that targets lean and athletic men. The podcast contains interviews with the founders of nine DC-based startups. I finished the last episode yesterday and here are some thoughts on why you should give…
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Entrepreneurs across the African continent are developing highly innovative technologies that are meeting real needs and improving the ease of life for people from all walks of life. At this year’s MIT Venture Capital (VC) Conference, I sat in on a panel that covered Brazil’s VC space. Two things struck me as very different from…
Kwame Som-Pimpong 