Shanea Leven is just one of the Black women taking Silicon Valley head on. More and more Black women are taking to the tech industry despite it being seen as a male dominated industry. Shanea founded CodeSee in an effort to make programming easier to visualize. CodeSee is a developer [...]
October 11, 2021
Miles Kelley
Tech
If “you keep this up, one day you're going to own this place” was a person. Born and raised in Dakar, Souadou Niang moved to New York when she was 18. When she got there, she had to work to pay for her studies. She then moved to Washington DC and walked [...]
October 6, 2021
Miles Kelley
Entrepreneurship
When it comes to finances, there are three type of professional athletes. There are guys that blow at all and end up broke. There are guys that manage themselves and are able to live comfortably and sustain themselves. And then there is the group that Shaq is apart of. We [...]
October 1, 2021
Miles Kelley
Branding
Daymond Green, one of the original founders of the clothing brand FUBU, author and current Shark Tank host, announced earlier this week that Black Entrepreneur Day will return next month. And it will be “bigger and better” this year. The inaugural session last year was a historic live-stream generating over six [...]
September 29, 2021
Miles Kelley
Community
In an article written last year according to Forbes magazine, Black women were among the fastest growing groups launching and owning new businesses. Tenisha Williams, CEO of Elite Realty Partners, is apart of that fast growing phenomenon. She has established and grown the largest Black woman owned real estate brokerage firm in the Miami [...]
September 27, 2021
Miles Kelley
Real Estate
According to Klarna, a Swedish fintech company, when companies add a BNPL option to their online stores, customers are 35% more likely to make a purchase and, on average, spend 45% more. BNPL simply means, “Buy Now, Pay Later.” As of this year, Novae LLC has become the first Black-owned [...]
September 27, 2021
Miles Kelley
Financing