Mo Ibrahim, the man who mobilized Africa
While many in the West and the Far-East saw Africa as a vast continent rife with conflict, cheap labor/resources and infectious disease,...
Troy Carter- the Master of Failing Fast
It can be said that the tough thing about change is the requirement to something different or to do things differently. However, for Troy...
A Theory On how Twitter marginalizes "Black" Chatter
As an avid and enthusiastic listener of This Week in Start Ups (TWIST), I have twice heard the show’s host, Jason Calacanis offer up...
#Squad - Black Celebrities join $24 million investment round for Bevel
Tristan Walker’s winning streak over the last two 21 months continues. But the real story may not lay in his individual success but in...
Carmelo Anthony dribbles his way into venture capital investment
As reported by William Aden of the New York Times, professional basketball star, Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks has been now...
50 Cent, Talib Kweli, Lil Wayne turn to new tech in order to better monetize
Fans and artists alike are now in the age of the independent. This period is marked by scores of artists who are not only opting to not...
Meet Buffer- the Company with No Secrets, not even with Your Salary
The last 10 years have been full of innovation at a blistering speed, changing the way humans communicate shop and learn. However,...
Tristan Walker re-packages the Mail Order Business
A symbol of the digital-era American dream and a seemingly lone public voice for black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Tristan Walker is...
There's enough tech for us all to eat says Andreesen Horowitz
On a recent episode of This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis had Molly Wood, Reporter at Marketplace and Benedict Evans of Andreesen...
Is it cause or convenience? The curious cases of Ellen Pao, Kanye West, Jay Z and Dame Dash.
Ellen Pao. Jay Z. Clarence Thomas. Damon Dash…these are four people who at ,various points of their relatively successful careers, fell...
