BLACK MEN ON ROAD TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
By WorkingNation Editorial Team | March 15, 2017 YOUNG, BLACK AND GIFTED As more jobs are automated, globalized, or require more education than they once did, a bet that has always been considered very risky—creating your own job by starting a business—is starting to look like a safer path to a secure future. Henry […]
SOLVING A SOCIAL PROBLEM THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHARLOTTE
Hilary BurnsBanking, Finance and Entrepreneurship ReporterCharlotte Business Journal@CBJBurns Henry Rock believes teaching young black men about entrepreneurship could help Charlotte’s social-mobility problem. Rock is the executive director of City Startup Labs, a program focused on helping black male millennials see their potential and learn what it takes to launch a company — or to […]
CITY STARTUP LABS TAPS UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP IN CHARLOTTE
BY Sherrell Dorsey | APRIL 28, 2016 Henry Rock is determined to create more young black business owners in the Charlotte community, and ultimately the country. His organization, City Startup Labs, launched in early 2014 and has since graduated nearly 50 young entrepreneurs. Six months of training culminates in a formal pitch competition attended by early-stage seed investors, […]
ROCKEFELLER GRANT TO CSL
“The Rockefeller Foundation is happy to support organizations like City Startup Labs that seek to spur entrepreneurship in communities of color, which are so often under-represented in the current entrepreneurial ecosystem,” said Claudia Juech, Rockefeller Foundation managing director for strategic research. “We’re excited by the transformative potential of entrepreneurship, and by the opportunity to help […]
IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP THE ANSWER TO BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT?
Editor’s Note: This column by Qcitymetro editor Glenn H Burkins was first published in the Shop Talk section of The Charlotte Observer. Henry Rock, founder and director of City Startup Labs, say more young black males should be groomed to launch and run their own businesses. Click the link below to listen to our […]
