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Black Boston Business Information

tis the season to be jollyThe Roxbury Mall on Warren Street in Roxbury may be one location to visit BLACK SANTA. He was there in 2007 inviting kids and families to his beautifully decorated enchanted village. "Christmas" it is!

If you know locations where Black Santa will be this year, click to add the location and we'll refer it out to everyone. Hopefully there will be many more Black and Ethnic Santas around town this year. People will be calling to find them. Thanks!

new black owned kabloom franchise store  KaBloom of Brightonis an African American woman-owned business franchise located at 420 Market Street, Brighton, MA. 02135. 617.787.1371 | map-it |



new mbta cell phone softwareHot Tips For Black Business Developers

AboutBlackBoston.com exposes Five Steps African American business entrepreneurs can use to develop new products, services and make millions with Google's recently announced cell phone named the G1. It uses the Android operating system. It will be shipping soon. This striking opportunity exists because the operating system is free to mobile phone manufacturers who currently must pay huge license fees to non-Google cell phone makers and the phone is un-locked. This allows anyone to add something new and sell that benefit to consumers. Check it out.


An African American clip art image from blacksoftware.com's black clip art library and online storeHey! Maybe you can land a new customer if you are a black or minority owned business enterprise in Boston or know one that can fill some open requests. 311

Viewers have called or written us to request: (unfilled) a black interior designer; (unfilled) a black or minority chiropractor; (filled) hair salon on Newbury Street that is open on Sunday or for one that caters to Black women in the North Shore (unfilled) and for a black or minority business that offers light in-home cleaning and assistance in New Bedford that will bill the US government for services(unfilled).

We receive phone calls asking for transportation assistance to and from Logan Airport all the time. One caller needed a fare from Amherst, Massachusetts at 3AM in the morning to Logan airport. Another flyer coming from Finland wanted a pickup at Logan, a drive up to a New Hampshire keynote engagement, a wait, then return to a Boston hotel, then a return to Logan by end of week. Executive board members of the National Negro College Fund traveled to the area - there were six in the party - and they wanted all types of hook-ups.



the self-made black millionaire's business story


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Forty students from a University in Amsterdam visited Boston to continue studying the African American influence on Boston's political history and they wanted contacts in town. There are some solid requests for business services coming in and we'd love to refer them one by one. PLEASE CLICK 311 to submit info about a minority owned business enterprise you know. Thanks!



Meet Dr. Randall Pinkett, the first African-American business owner to win Donald Trump's "The Apprentice IV" television show entrepreneur's contest, compliments of a W3 Media network // smallwall.net.

Looking straight at the camera, Dr. Pinkett explains his secrets to success.


    Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to inject $1 billion into medical research and biotechnology could also be more flexible and cost effective than competing plans in California and other states.
    Interested? Cool! -->click this to discover how you can be part of the new Massachusetts Biotech evolution.

    Free MIT entrepreneur law course.


If you seek investors, venture capitalists and folks you don't know but may need them anyway, we'd like to hear from you. Use this link to connect.
Something Blue:
a Don Dodge piece
Three kinds of companies:
"VC and Angel investors put prospective companies in three buckets, and they only invest in one of them.

Entrepreneurs looking for money should think about where they fit.

The three types of companies are; Lifestyle, Cash Flow, and High Growth. When companies are just starting out it is sometimes not clear which category they will fall into."
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Dodge says "this is why investors spend a lot of time studying market size data and asking questions about customer scenarios."

Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft's Emerging Business Team. He writes a daily blog, Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing.

 
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About ICE
InnerCity Entrepreneurs, Inc. is ICE - an organization for minority business owners interested in development and investment.

STATE CONTRACTORS
The state office of SOMWBA certifies companies as woman owned, minority or disadvantaged business enterprises. We explain what a DBE, MBE and a W/MBE type certification means. Click here. to discover more about minority firms in Massachusetts.
400,000 African Americans visited Massachusetts (in 2003). The busiest months were April - September and said this report.








BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Current Business Meeting Schedules.

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