What Black American Innovators need to produce jobs
What Black American Innovators Need to Produce Jobs By Mike Green April 29, 2012 Originally written for Dominion of New York. See full article here. Black Americans are no strangers to entrepreneurship. But sheer numbers of entrepreneurs do not translate into fast-growing companies that create jobs. Case and point: The Census Bureau Statistics data show a 60 percent spike in Black entrepreneurship between 2002 and 2007, equivalent to 1.9 million... Read More
MLK Would Support Obama’s JOBS Act
MLK WOULD SUPPORT OBAMA’S JOBS ACT By Mike Green April 16, 2012 On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated — just a few weeks before he was to travel to Washington D.C. with the intent of excoriating a stagnant nation over the issue of the American economy (see video). On April 5, 2012, the most powerful Black man in the world, President Barack Obama, signed into law the historic JOBS Act and opened an unprecedented economic... Read More
Why aren’t Black media talking about JOBS?
By Mike Green April 7, 2012 President Obama signed into law the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) on April 5, 2012. The historic law slightly alters the economic game across America that has long been tilted in favor of the wealthy. The new law opens the field of investing in high-growth startups and allows access for millions of Americans who do not meet the previous standard of $1M net worth and a minimum of $200K in new income — a standard... Read More
President Obama: Leading America toward 21st Century Equity Citizenship
In the days after President Obama’s State of the Union Address, and with last week’s launch of Startup America, it should be clear to all observers that the president’s leadership on new jobs creation and national prosperity has decisively turned to investing in and promoting innovation and competitiveness. This is the strongest signal yet that Black America’s efforts to achieve economic empowerment are inextricably linked to our propensity... Read More
Startup America: Fueling the Innovation Engine
Unquestionably, America has been an entrepreneurial nation. Here are some compelling, historical facts from the National Commission on Entrepreneurship (NCOE): 67% of inventions and 95% of all radical innovations produced since World War II are attributable to entrepreneurs. In the late 1960s, one in four persons went to work for a Fortune 500 firm, in 1980 it was one in five, in the late 1990s it was an astounding one in fourteen. Informal investors... Read More
President Obama’s Economic Imperative: Reclaiming our Innovation Nation
As President Barack Obama addresses the nation with a focus on 21st century economic imperatives, the Black Innovation and Competitiveness Initiative welcomes this spotlight upon what we call the 21st century “Innovation Economy.” “To thrive in the current Innovation Economy, which is marked by radical socioeconomic changes brought about by the globalization of commerce, democratization of information, exponential growth of entrepreneurship... Read More
