Award-winning entrepreneur Dr. Velma Trayham has launched a $500,000 scholarship fund to support Black women entrepreneurs across the country. The fund, which is a part of her upcoming Millionaire Mastermind Entrepreneur Accelerator Program this spring, is being offered by means of Dr. Trayham’s Millionaire Mastermind Academy and her company, Thinkzilla Consulting Group. […]
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The Entrepreneur Who Quit Microsoft To Develop A Powerpoint Rival
Christian Reber, CEO of Pitch Pitch “It’s hard to keep an entrepreneur in a big company,” says Berlin-based entrepreneur, Christian Reber. He’s talking about his decision to quit Microsoft and subsequently create a platform offering an alternative to the Powerpoint presentation tool. Reber – who began writing software in his […]
How to Create Inclusive Communities for Entrepreneurs of Color
I am a Black man leading a $60 million digital services company. I am proud of the diversity of my team of close to 200–49 percent are women and 38 percent are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC)–and of the work we do through our incubator to help other minority and female […]
Turkish entrepreneur targets ‘medical collagen’ exports
Gamze Kara Mağden, who transformed the biotechnology company she founded in a space of only 40 square meters (430.56 square feet) in Turkey’s central city of Eskişehir in 2017 into a production facility with an enclosed area of 500 square meters, continues her work to present the domestic medical collagen […]
The Bitcoin Bridge: Researcher & entrepreneur Laura Igwe Odii talks about the BSV potential
When the internet was invented back in the 20th century, there was no way people could have imagined just what an impact it would make. And yet, here we are, several decades later, with billions of people and most of the global economy online. That’s the thing with revolutionary technology—it […]
Federal probe into serial entrepreneur couple who cashed in on COVID testing boom
A serial entrepreneur couple who cashed in on the COVID testing boom are now at the center of a federal probe after being accused of fraud by customers who say they never received results or got negative test results via email before they had even taken the test. Longtime entrepreneurs […]
Elizabeth Holmes and Her Confidence Game: A Fake-It-Till-You-Make-It Cautionary Tale for Every Entrepreneur
On Monday, after a three-month trial and 50 hours of deliberations, a jury found Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of Theranos, guilty on four counts of fraud for making false claims to investors. Holmes was found not guilty on four charges related to lying to patients by providing […]
Wealthy LA entrepreneur is the latest victim of city’s terrifying home-invasion robberies
A wealthy and well-connected LA entrepreneur has become the latest target of the city’s home invader burglars, with both her house sitters bound with zip ties by the armed intruders. The terrifying incident took place at a an estimated $5 million home on Sherwood Place, in the affluent suburb of […]