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NewME Accelerator Pops Up in Miami
(Image: Thinkstock) Miami tech entrepreneurs, class will soon be in session. NewME Accelerator, the startup incubation program geared toward underrepresented minorities in the tech world, has partnered...
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‘Black in America’: Tiffani Bell, One Year Later
As a black woman, Tiffani Bell (r), founder of Pencil You In, is a rarity in Silicon Valley. She was one of eight entrepreneurs featured on Soledad O'Brien's (l) Black in America 4 documentary....
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‘Black in America’: Curtiss Pope, One Year Later
Curtiss Pope's AisleFinder app makes shopping easier. He fine tuned the business model when he participated in the NewMe Accelerator (Image: Kent Hwang) Last November, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien explored...
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‘Black in America’: Wayne Sutton, One Year Later
Wayne Sutton, a co-founder of the NewMe Accelerator, is now founder of PitchTo.co Last November, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien explored Silicon Valley through the eyes of eight African-American...
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‘Black in America’: Chris Bennett, One Year Later
Chris Bennett recalls the feedback he received for his company, Soldsie, while participating in the NewMe Accelerator in Silicon Valley. Last November, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien explored Silicon Valley...
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NewME Accelerator Announces Pop-Up Tour Schedule
Calling all tech startups: NewME Accelerator may be coming to a city near you. The startup incubation program geared toward underrepresented minorities in the tech world announced its eight-city tour...
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NewME Alum Hank Williams Launches New Venture, Platform
Serial tech entrepreneur Hank Williams announced yesterday his newest venture, Platform, a not-for-profit organization he founded with the Tides Center and several unnamed technologists, entrepreneurs,...
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Tech Startup of the Week: Citizen Made Lets Manufacturers Customize Products...
Citizen Made is the ecommerce platform for brands that make custom products (Image: Citizen Made) Not every business is like Burger King. You can’t always “have it your way.” But now Citizen Made, a...
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Black Web 2.0 Relaunches As B20, New Layout and Groundbreaking Content
Formerly known as Black Web 2.0, B20 commits to featuring innovators transforming the tech space (Image: B20) Angela Benton, CEO of Black Web Media and founder of NewME Accelerator, started Black...
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Two years after the airing of CNN’s Black in America: The New Promised Land—Silicon Valley, BlackEnterprise.com hosted a Twitter chat, sponsored by Toyota, to discuss diversity in technology....
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Black Founders Rally Support for NewMe Accelerator
Technology entrepreneurs and start-up professionals gathered for Brunch on Sunday, June 19, to welcome participants of the NewMe Accelerator to the Bay Area. The accelerator is a nine-week program that...
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The Keys to Tech Startup Success
Johann Schleier-Smith‘s mother bought him his first computer when he was six or seven years old. Since then he’s been passionate about computers and became an avid programmer in his spare time. He met...
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Black Web 2.0′s Angela Benton Talks Startups, Mentoring & the NewMe Accelerator
(Image: Source) What’s an hour long CNN documentary worth to an aspiring tech entrepreneur? Angela Benton, founder and publisher of Black Web 2.0, found out when she and seven others were featured in...
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The Future of Black History: Web Entrepreneur Angela Benton
(Image: File) The fourth installment of CNN’s Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley placed NewMe co-founder Angela Benton on a platform for both national and international audiences...
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Austin Locals Welcome Black Startups to SXSW
Dell representatives LaToya Collins-Jones and Belinda Matingou flank an attendee who won a Dell laptop (Images: Clark Patterson) The Capital City African American Chamber of Commerce kicked off a...
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