Black entrepreneurs: Page 4

Fundraising

The Challenges in Getting Funding for Women and Minority-Owned Businesses, And How to Solve Them

There are a number of ways to finance a business, but all include doing your homework.

Thought Leaders

4 Ways Black Women-Owned Small-Retail Brands Changed the Game

Black women have pioneered numerous successful strategies that all small retailers could learn from.

Leadership

It's Black History Month. Here's How to Show Black Employees You Care.

Black history is more than just slavery and the civil rights movement. It's being made as we speak.

Thought Leaders

Her Daughter's Food Allergies Made Finding Healthy Snacks Impossible, So This Mother Quit Her Corporate Job to Change That

Denise Woodard, founder and CEO of Partake, shares three lessons in entrepreneurship she hopes to pass down to her daughter.

Thought Leaders

How This Entrepreneur Bootstrapped Her Business, Landed on the Shelves of Target and Ulta and Disrupted the Sunscreen Category

Here are three lessons Shontay Lundy shares from the journey of building Black Girl Sunscreen.

Leadership

BET CEO Scott Mills Has Proven That Legacy Media Brands Still Matter

In conversation, the longtime Viacom leader and recently appointed Chief Executive Officer lays out what it takes to adapt and thrive.

Thought Leaders

Managing a Black Woman? Here's How to Become Her Success Partner and Ally.

Diversifying the workplace is a top priority for many companies these days, but some haven't figured out how to retain, support and promote the Black women they already have.

Thought Leaders

Why Black Entrepreneurs Should Consider Therapy

It's no secret that entrepreneurship is tough - we're constantly making decisions, managing finances, working long hours, providing customer service and supporting employees.

Thought Leaders

4 Qualities That Could Make You the Next Arlan Hamilton

How to fuel your chances of being among the record number of Black women now blazing a trail of entrepreneurship and success.

Money & Finance

Compounding Inequality to Compounding Success: Bridging the Racial Wealth Gap

While racial inequality remains a complicated issue, at its core is economic inequality, but what do we do about it?

Thought Leaders

7 Keys to Authentically Investing in Diverse Start-ups

Institutions, investors and entrepreneurs must do more than make vague pronouncements about financial commitments targeting change decades from now.

Thought Leaders

How Managers Can Dismantle Workplace Trauma

Best-selling author and podcast host Minda Harts offers her insights in righting generations of racial wrongs.

Thought Leaders

She Was Homeless. Now She Runs a $25 Million Investment Fund for Women of Color.

Fearless Fund cofounder Arian Simone knows firsthand how hard it is for women of color to raise money. So after many setbacks and reinventions, she transformed herself into the solution she'd been looking for.

Leadership

Meet the New CEO Laying Groundwork for Corporate Equity Just In Time for Juneteenth

Sandra Quince was named a diversity-and-inclusion coalition's first-ever CEO days before the anniversary of George Floyd's death and a month before Juneteenth 2021, and the symbolism and opportunity are not lost on her.

Business News

Whiskey Brand Announces $50 Million Fund to Help Other Minority-Owned and -Founded Spirit Brands

The fund will consider any brand founded or led by a woman or a person of color.