03/22/2021
These undergraduates left university to build Flux, a payments startup now in YC – TechCrunch
In the 170 years since Western Union was founded, no company has managed to solve two basic problems that continue to bedevil the remittance business — exorbitant fees and slow deposit times. For instance, it takes days or weeks for money sent from an immigrant in the U.S. to reach a relative…
07/17/2020
Jay Westbrook & Sam Ross Making history!
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🗞"There’s also a social justice component to one of the ingredients of Harold’s ’83. The honey used in the beer comes from Sweet Beginnings, LLC, a North Lawndale-based nonprofit organization which produces beelove, a line of honey-based products made by formerly incarcerated individuals." - Evan F. Moore
African American entrepreneurs launch a craft beer named for two famous Chicago ‘Harolds’
Harold’s ’83 Honey Ale is named after a fictional Harold’s Chicken Shack location number and for the year Chicago elected its first Black mayor, Harold Washington.
07/14/2020
Hope Wise making waves in a new industry.
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🗞 "In 2017 Wiseman founded Mary & Main, a dispensary created as a safe space to inform consumers on the truth..."
- Article by Ashley McDonough
With Mary & Main, This Entrepreneur Charts An Unconventional Path In The Cannabis Industry
For this week's Best & Black Owned, dispensary owner Hope Wiseman digs into what it takes to be a Black woman in the cannabis business.
07/13/2020
How a single mom and cancer survivor launched a multi-million dollar beauty business
Before Cashmere Nicole Cirillo building Beauty Bakerie, she was a single parent, struggling to get make ends meet.
07/13/2020
Amari Ruffi is a dope inspiration.
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🗞 "'After I left my telecom business, I saw the trucking industry as an opportunity to do something similar to what I did before. Previously, I started a business with only $300 and a truck (1990 Ford Ranger), but I had no degree or clue at how to run a biz—just pure will and guts.'" - Amari Ruffi
- Article by Kandia Johnson
This Once Homeless, Black Entrepreneur Now Owns a $20M Trucking Company - Black Enterprise
Amari Ruff talks starting over and volunteering to learn more about a void in the trucking industry. Now, he's the CEO of Sudu, an Atlanta-based trucking company which matches shippers and carriers based upon route optimization for mega brands like Walmart.