(Akiit.com) Bernie Sanders raised $20 million with the average donation being just $27.00. What is wrong with Black folks? For decades conscious Black leaders have cajoled, encouraged, admonished, and begged us to raise money among ourselves, a small amount from a lot of people, you know, the way Marcus Garvey ...
(Akiit.com) Launching a startup is not easy, and you are going to need to deal with a lot of different people. Before you get your startup off the ground there are plenty of services that you’ll require that need addressing. Business consultants exist in many forms now, and you need ...
(Akiit.com) Marketing an online business can be a real challenge sometimes. It’s hard to know where to start and how to improve. But don’t give up just yet, there are lots of ideas that you probably haven’t tried yet. Here are some of the best of them. Use Images An ...
(Akiit.com) When you run a business, it can seem like everything falls squarely on your shoulders. You need to think about what employees you want to hire and how big you need your staff to be. There are other issues to consider as well like whether or not your business ...
(Akiit.com) Michael Hiltzik, a columnist and Los Angeles Times reporter, wrote an article titled “Does a minimum wage raise hurt workers? Economists say: We don’t know.” Uncertain was his conclusion from a poll conducted by the Initiative on Global Markets, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, of ...
(Akiit.com) Brooklyn, NY – A nationwide grassroots Black economic empowerment movement called LetsBuyBlack365 hosts its first press conference on December 29th in New York City at the Brooklyn Christian Center. The Center is located at 1061Atlantic Avenue between Franklin and Classon Avenues in Brooklyn, New York. According to Reverend Dennis ...
(Akiit.com) There’s something a little ironic about the process of hiring new team members when you run a diversity recruitment startup. When my cofounder Ryan and I quit our finance jobs to start Jopwell, our main concerns probably sounded nauseatingly similar to those of many early-stage entrepreneurs – everything from ...
(Akiit.com) Each of us should be striving to have money working for us instead of the other way around. Most of us know about getting a job and then getting up and working at that job Monday through Friday for as long as they let us work there. That is ...
(Akiit.com) After listening to President Barack Obama’s remarks at the recent Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, I couldn’t help but compare some of the responses to what we’ve been hearing from the Tea Party and their master party – the Republicans in Congress – and a few disgruntled Democrats, who with ...
(Akiit.com) (March 22, 2011) — In September 2010, President Obama approved the Small Business Jobs Act – a new law that has become a very significant piece of small business legislation. The law extends the successful SBA enhanced loan provisions while offering billions more in lending support, tax cuts, and ...
(Akiit.com) Some analysts are asking whether “fair inclusion” of minorities in the financial industry would have averted disaster or made it worse… Last month Politico reported on a “little-noticed” section of the Wall Street reform bill. It gives the feds power to kill contracts with firms that fail to initiate ...
(Akiit.com) Job losses. Game-changing technology. Belt tightening. Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of black media in 2010… When it comes to black-oriented news media, we have a mixed bag: There is the kind of buzz that was created in 2007 by college-student blogs, e-mails and text messages alerting the nation ...