White House Hosts HBCU Entrepreneurship Conference
The goal is to boost the efforts to create a new generation of Black business leaders and to support an entrepreneurial spirit on campuses.
By Joyce Jones
Posted: 04/16/2012 03:57 PM EDT
Here’s a novel way to graduate from college unburdened by student loans: start your own business and create jobs in the process. If you’re thinking that sounds far-fetched, think about these students who participated in a young entrepreneur’s conference at Johnson B. Smith University, in Charlotte, North Carolina: One young man opened up a barbershop that is now a full-service chain of salons; a woman created a public relations and marketing firm; and another man formed a high-tech digital company.
The White House, which wants to see that kind of innovation replicated on Black college campuses across the nation, hosted a forum on entrepreneurship Monday that was attended by leaders from several HBCUs and minority serving institutions, business owners and government officials. It’s an offshoot of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Young Entrepreneurs initiative launched several months ago.
(Photo: Matt McClain for the Washington Post/Getty Images)
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By Joyce Jones
Posted: 04/16/2012 03:57 PM EDT
Here’s a novel way to graduate from college unburdened by student loans: start your own business and create jobs in the process. If you’re thinking that sounds far-fetched, think about these students who participated in a young entrepreneur’s conference at Johnson B. Smith University, in Charlotte, North Carolina: One young man opened up a barbershop that is now a full-service chain of salons; a woman created a public relations and marketing firm; and another man formed a high-tech digital company.
The White House, which wants to see that kind of innovation replicated on Black college campuses across the nation, hosted a forum on entrepreneurship Monday that was attended by leaders from several HBCUs and minority serving institutions, business owners and government officials. It’s an offshoot of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Young Entrepreneurs initiative launched several months ago.
(Photo: Matt McClain for the Washington Post/Getty Images)
More:
http://www.bet.com/news/national/2012/04/1...
