CITY STARTUP LABS IS WORKING TO ADDRESS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE – AN UPDATE…
With the help of 2020 CARES ACT funding through the United Way of the Central Carolinas and the City of Charlotte, CSL was able to segue into a role of designing and delivering training for and deploying a team of digital navigators. This team has been working in a customer service/help-desk role in support of […]
FROM BITS TO BITES
Chris Ward went from working in information technology to running a company that’s carved out a niche in the breakfast food market. Watch this StoryNow video as Chris (CSL- Class of 2018-19) shares his palate-pleasing entrepreneurial journey: https://citystartuplabs.com//wp-content/uploads/2020/03/City-Startup-Labs-__-Chris-Story-1.mp4
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
CSL FOUNDER MAKES CONSCIOUS MAGAZINE’S TOP 22 CONSCIOUS BUSINESS LEADERS OF 2019
THESE FORWARD-THINKERS ARE SAYING NO TO PROFIT AT ALL COSTS AND YES TO ADVANCING A NEW BUSINESS-AS-USUAL. Written by: VANESSA CHILDERS Conscious leadership comes in many shapes and sizes that are not necessarily mutually exclusive: the entrepreneur whose business model, from the get-go, is a vehicle for positive global change; the impact investor who funds […]
CITY STARTUP LABS LAUNCHES REEP FOR THE FORMERLY INCARCERATED…
… AND WHAT WE LEARNED Usually, reentry programs focus on meeting the immediate needs of the formerly incarcerated, including employment. Yet for this population, access to any work, much less livable wage-paying jobs can be especially challenging. An overarching goal of the City Startup Labs’ ReEntry Entrepreneurship Program (REEP) is to demonstrate that entrepreneurship makes […]
LET’S REIMAGINE AFRICAN AMERICAN MILLENNIALS AND RETURNING CITIZENS AS A NEW CLASS OF ENTREPRENEURS
THE FOUNDER OF CHARLOTTE’S CITY STARTUP LABS CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AMERICA’S INNOVATORS The Renewal Project, October 12, 2018 Little did I realize that this idea would affect people the way that it has. Of course I had a notion, but five years on, it’s bearing fruit–many of the […]
CITY STARTUP LABS PROGRAM EVALUATION OF “WHAT WORKS” – CLASS OF 2017
The following is an EXECUTIVE SUMMARY of the City Startup Labs Program Evaluation of “What Works” for the Class of 2017 (from Sept 2017 to March 2018). The entire assessment was prepared by Madison Multicultural Educational Solutions, LLC (led by Jordan Starck – CSL Class of 2014). The purpose of this study is to determine whether the approach/method […]
CITY STARTUP LABS RECEIVES KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION GRANT TO AID NEW INITIATIVE
In late June of this year Charlotte-based City Startup Labs (CSL) will be launching an entrepreneurial pilot targeting returning citizens or the formerly incarcerated – ReEntry Entrepreneurship Program (REEP). This new effort will be made possible through a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Inclusion Initiative, along with another received from the United Way of Central Carolinas through […]
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 — […]
