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Five tips from growing startup Health in Her Hue on how to raise funding

Health in Her HUE, a Black woman led startup has raised $3 million in a seed round. The digital platform connects Black women and women of color to culturally sensitive healthcare providers and offers health…

By Preta Peace Namasaba January 11, 2024
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Five business lessons to learn from the father of African-American business management

Charles Clinton Spaulding led the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company into becoming America’s largest black-owned business. Dubbed as the father of African American management, he outlined the Four Cardinal Points of Entrepreneurship in his…

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Ursula Burns: The rise and rise of America’s first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company

Ursula Burns’ appointment as the CEO of Xerox in 2009 made her the first Black woman to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Her journey from the projects in New York to becoming…

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Tiger Woods ends $500 million partnership with Nike, but do you know about these mega deals he signed?

After 27 years, Tiger Woods’s partnership with Nike has come to an end. It is reported that the billionaire earned $500 million during the course of the deal. Woods signed his first contract with the…

By Preta Peace Namasaba January 10, 2024

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Robert F. Smith’s Vista Equity Partners acquires JAGGAER after raising $20 billion to invest in AI

Robert F. Smith’s Vista Equity Partners has acquired JAGGAER, a global leader in enterprise procurement and supplier collaboration software, from Cinven. The acquisition aligns with the firm’s goal of investing in artificial intelligence after raising…

By Preta Peace Namasaba September 2, 2024
Business

Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole gifts two longtime employees their own restaurant

To celebrate Slutty Vegan’s 6th anniversary, its founder and CEO, Pinky Cole Hayes has rewarded two of her longtime employees, Angel Barnwell and Miesha Hambrick with their own franchise. The two women have been crucial…

By Preta Peace Namasaba August 26, 2024
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These 4 Black owned businesses generate over $1 billion in annual revenue each

Black business ownership is growing at the fastest pace in 30 years. According to data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, the share of Black households owning a business has more than doubled,…

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Top 10 in-demand remote jobs paying at least 100k salaries

The pandemic unequivocally changed how we work. It shook up the traditional workplace setup and ushered in the remote work era. According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 22 million employed adults in the U.S.…

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