FALL NEWSLETTER ~ RUSTLING THE LEAVES
This has been a most extraordinary year, without a doubt the most significant in our existence. City Startup Labs came out of the 2020 on a positive note, having been able to service a select group of participants through our ReEntry Entrepreneurship Program (REEP) and then acquire the assets of Black Tech Interactive/Black Tech Charlotte earlier this […]
BLACKTECH INTERACTIVE/BLACKTECHCLT – SPRING NEWS
City Startup Labs (CSL) made a recent acquisition of the assets of BlackTech Interactive/ BlackTechCLT, a firm started in 2016 in Charlotte by Sherrell Dorsey, Enovia Bedford and Freda Hendley (read announcement). BlackTech Interactive was focused on developing and fostering Black tech talent. Since that time, it established the BlackTech CLT brand and played […]
CITY STARTUP LABS ACQUIRES TECH TRAINING HUB BLKTECHCLT
[March 16, 2021] Charlotte, North Carolina— City Startup Labs (CSL), hybrid accelerator and incubator, today has announced that it has acquired BLKTECHCLT, an inclusive tech and startup community and consulting firm. “I was excited to hear from Sherrell about this opportunity to acquire BlkTechInteractive and the BLKTECHCLT brand,” said Henry Rock, founder and CEO of City Startup Labs […]
POWER WHEN YOU NEED IT
We’ve all been there; our phone is close to running out of power and not an outlet in sight and you don’t have your charger — what to do? Desmond Wiggan (CSL – Class of 2018-19) has just the answer – BatteryXchange. Watch this StoryNow video as Desmond shares his route to getting us powered up: […]
REGISTRIES REVISITED
Aaron Galloway had a lightbulb moment when thinking about whether he and his fiancée wanted to get three blenders as gifts for their wedding — maybe there could be a more meaningful and enduring way to give during special occasions. Thus InfiniGift was born. Watch this StoryNow video as Aaron (CSL- Class of 2016) gives his take on entrepreneurship: https://citystartuplabs.com//wp-content/uploads/2020/03/City-Startup-Labs-Aarons-Story-1.mp4
HOW TO EMPOWER YOUNG BLACK ENTREPRENEURS
Caroline Lester | June 16, 2017InnovationHub | Great Minds, Great Conversations | WGBH Radio https://soundcloud.com/innovationhub/a-rock-solid-business-plan?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Finnovationhub%252Fa-rock-solid-business-plan Credit: HAMZA BUTT / Flickr Creative Commons Back in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson commissioned a report on the state of race in America. The Warren Commission’s ensuing statement: our nation was “moving toward two societies, one black, one white — […]
