Hajj Flemings Chats via Skype I had the pleasure of attending a viewing party of CNN’s Black In America that was organized by the Capitol City African American Chamber this past Sunday. This segment focused on African Americans in Silicon Valley. Among the folks featured was Hajj Flemings, an entrepreneur that joined the accelerator program shown in [...]

Entrepreneurship Panel Download Podcast Laura Stich (Moderator) – MomCorp, Eve Richter – City of Austin, Nathan Green – Campus2Careers, Hoover Alexander – Hoover’s Cooking, Rishi Patel – Monazu Creative Group, Tony Aguilar – Amiti Advising Are entrepreneurs simply born or is it possible to cultivate entrepreneurship in youth? With minorities quickly becoming the majority in states such as Texas and [...]

Drew Bixby Founder of Austin Sky Technology Drew Bixby is currently President/Founder of Austin Sky Technology, which has been providing mobile software to K-12 school Principals for 10 years. After graduating from Colgate University in New York State, he obtained an MBA and MS in Accounting at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author [...]

Sherry Lowry Entrepreneur Sherry Lowry, a long-time entrepreneur, has founded and developed 7 businesses within 7 industries, each at the time on an emerging edge. The largest of these grew to 20,000 clients. She has been mentored her whole life and still enjoys regularly receiving and providing mentorship. Her own mentors have included the always [...]

Sonia Gaillard Managing Director of nVentia Sonia Gaillard is the Managing Director of nVentia Ventures while simultaneously leading the development of the Entrepreneurship Center for Economic and Social Innovation, at St. Michaels Catholic Academy (SMCA), a high school youth entrepreneurship program. At nVentia, she overseas global teams that collaborate with governments, technology incubators and universities [...]