For Black business enterprises with new ideas that have yet to see the light of day, and for established businesses seeking to expand, we have found an investor group and an angel investor who will fund your business ideas. They are looking for opportunities and will go outside the box of traditional bank funding pre-requisites.
YCombinator (YC) has a base in Cambridge and on the West Coast. The group funds new online clouds - where you'll get revenue from your web site online. The current Application deadline is March 3, 10 pm PT. Your plan should focus on Internet customer acquisition and service or product delivery. It can be about mobile device software or video driven platforms. You plan has to impresses YC because competition is worldwide.
This Open Source funding option is offered by Mark Cuban, an entrepreneur and sports team owner. He owns the MAVERICKS NBA basketball team.
Mark said "if you've got a good idea worth funding, he wants it replicated elsewhere. The idea is not just to help you, but to figure out how to help the economy through hard work and ingenuity."
Now, that we've told you that - Mark Cuban will fund your business plan if it offers a product or service and you expect to be profitable within 90 days.
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Prediction: Boston area Minority Business Certification programs will receive a burst of activity from construction and industrial engineering firms during the Age of Obama.
This link is SOMWBA's business enterprise application for those seeking DBE certification from the State of Massachusetts.
NOV 14th Keynote Speech will be delivered by Robin Chase - Founder of ZipCar.
Governor Deval Patrick's new organization is putting on a FREE CONFERENCE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AT MIT on Saturday, November 14th at the Tang Building at 11:00 a.m.
[ view web site ] - the conference will broaden the use of data provided by the governor's reconfigured MASSDOT, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. You'll gain insights about iPhone application software development and learn about the state's transparency goals when allocating source data tables for software developers to use.
Sure wish we could go but we will be working on our Roxbury.TV playback systems. If you have a bright idea, click here to propose it.
COMPASS is another service providing access to $5.3 billion in current State contracting service or supply opportunities. COMPASS also provides buyers the capability to post what they wish to order from companies.
The Partnership's Next Generation Executive initiative is an executive development program for multicultural professionals of color designed in collaboration with the Harvard Business School (HBS). It provides top multicultural professionals of color the skills necessary to reach the C-suite and thrive in a global and ever-changing economy. Program participants enter a weeklong immersion experience at Harvard. The experience includes peer and executive coaching. Contact 617-262-2828, ext. 201 at The Partnership for information.
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AboutBlackBoston.com exposes Five Steps African American business entrepreneurs can use to develop new products, services and make money with Google's cell phone. It uses the Android operating system.
Hey! Maybe you can land a new customer if you are a black or minority owned business enterprise in Boston or know one that can fill some open requests. 311
Viewers have called or written us to request: (unfilled) a black interior designer; (unfilled) a black or minority chiropractor; (filled) hair salon on Newbury Street that is open on Sunday or for one that caters to Black women in the North Shore (unfilled) and for a black or minority business that offers light in-home cleaning and assistance in New Bedford that will bill the US government for services(unfilled).
We receive phone calls asking for transportation assistance to and from Logan Airport all the time. One caller needed a fare from Amherst, Massachusetts at 3AM in the morning to Logan airport. Another flyer coming from Finland wanted a pickup at Logan, a drive up to a New Hampshire keynote engagement, a wait, then return to a Boston hotel, then a return to Logan by end of week. Executive board members of the National Negro College Fund traveled to the area - there were six in the party - and they wanted all types of hook-ups.
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Meet Dr. Randall Pinkett, the first African-American business owner to win Donald Trump's "The Apprentice IV" television show entrepreneur's contest, compliments of a W3 Media network // smallwall.net.
Looking straight at the camera, Dr. Pinkett explains his secrets to success.
Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to inject $1 billion into medical research and biotechnology could also be more flexible and cost effective than competing plans in California and other states. Interested? Cool! -->click this to discover how you can be part of the new Massachusetts Biotech evolution.
National Black MBA Association, Strategic Financial Partners, and the Metro-West Black Data Processing Association are actively networking in Boston. inquire!
The Black Pages of New England directory lists businesses owned by blacks, minorities and women owned business enterprises. (617)-298-3000
You will sit in antique chairs from the 1920's. The floor you walk on is solid oak. The space has a chess table for kids waiting. For some of them, it is their first time ever playing chess in a BARBER SHOP. His environment is family friendly. He spent days on a farm in Jamaica cutting hair styles for free. He learned to cut hair from barbers in Kingston at age 13. His shop has a history. During the "day" Sammie Davis Jr. and Malcom X came in for a cut!
This business is owned by Doyen. Since 1998, he has owned A-1 Barbers, 777 Tremont Street, 617.247.7337 map it at the corner of Tremont and Massachusetts Avenue.
Free Black Fine Art Screensavers for Windows Click Here for more information About Black Boston P O Box 300701 Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130. Phone 617.417.7456
Meet Sonja Ebron, social entrepreneur and CEO of blackEnergy, a national distributor of energy conservation products and an organizer of energy buying groups that help people use their utility bills to support Black communities.
If you seek investors, venture capitalists and folks you don't know but may need them anyway, we'd like to hear from you. Use this link to connect.Something Blue:
a Don Dodge piece Three kinds of companies:"VC and Angel investors put prospective companies in three buckets, and they only invest in one of them.
Entrepreneurs looking for money should think about where they fit.
The three types of companies are; Lifestyle, Cash Flow, and High Growth. When companies are just starting out it is sometimes not clear which category they will fall into."
Dodge says "this is why investors spend a lot of time studying market size data and asking questions about customer scenarios."
Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft's Emerging Business Team. He writes a daily blog, Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing.
About ICE InnerCity Entrepreneurs, Inc. is ICE - an organization for minority business owners interested in development and investment. STATE CONTRACTORS
The state office of SOMWBA certifies companies as woman owned, minority or disadvantaged business enterprises. We explain what a DBE, MBE and a W/MBE type certification means. Click here. to discover more about minority firms in Massachusetts.
400,000 African Americans visited Massachusetts (in 2003). The busiest months were April - September and said this report.
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Hey! Maybe you can land a new customer if you are a black or minority owned business enterprise in Boston or know one that can fill some open requests. 
Forty students from a University in Amsterdam visited Boston to continue studying the African American influence on Boston's political history and they wanted contacts in town. There are some solid requests for business services coming in and we'd love to refer them one by one. PLEASE CLICK 
You will sit in antique chairs from the 1920's. The floor you walk on is solid oak. The space has a chess table for kids waiting. For some of them, it is their first time ever playing chess in a BARBER SHOP. His environment is family friendly. He spent days on a farm in Jamaica cutting hair styles for free. He learned to cut hair from barbers in Kingston at age 13. His shop has a history. During the "day" Sammie Davis Jr. and Malcom X came in for a cut!
