Cheryl Polote-Williamson grew up in Savannah, Georgia, with an entrepreneur father, who had construction business. Unlike her siblings, Cheryl didn’t want to be part of the business when she got older. She wanted to leave Savannah, and at 15, she...
When Dorie Clark, marketing strategy consultant and author of the enlightening new book, Entrepreneurial You, was executive director of a non-profit, she realized, essentially, that she was running her own small business. This sparked the entrepreneurial...
Summer Felix fell in love with entrepreneurship as she grew up in California witnessing her dad’s ability to be so present in her life because he was an entrepreneur at the time and not at a job that dictated how he spent his days. What she also learned...
Michelle Villalobos struggled to make money in her business for the first seven years, although she worked nonstop on building it. Eventually she got to the point when she thought about giving up. The turning point? A mentor who completely...
Entrepreneurship is in Monique Greenwood’s blood. Her grandfather owned one of Washington, D.C.’s first successful black-owned businesses — Greenwood Moving and Transfer company — that was birthed as a result of his innovation...
