Where Are the Black Owned Businesses? As I was driving through the streets of North Philadelphia, I got a sinking feeling in my gut as I looked at all the opportunity wasted in our neighborhoods. I saw more grown…
The Mind of an Entrepreneur
Here is one of the hardest mindsets that non-entrepreneurs struggle with; and that is that failure is bad. WRONG! Failure is part of the process. You see we are taught in school from an early age that if you get…
The Reluctant Entrepreneur
I was on the phone last night with my older brother who is in the process of starting his first business. Unlike myself, my brother shied away from the entrepreneurial track and has spent his entire working life after college in…
Don’t Be Pacified By A Paycheck
One of the greatest fears that would-be entrepreneurs face is that of losing their regular paycheck. Many great ideas and many great companies have never been launched because of the pacification of the paycheck. Now don’t get me wrong, a…
Black entrepreneurs and the State of Black America
The National Urban League recently released their annual “State of Black America” report 2014 and the findings were not good to say the least. According to the study, the unemployment rate for Blacks was twice that for Whites with the…