How do you build a technology enabled business for less than $1K? You learn how to code! Don’t want to learn how to code? Then use other platforms that you can test your idea with. This week on The Phat Startup Show, we sat down with Michael Karnjanaprakorn, CEO and Co-founder of the educational company […]
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed details of the U.S. government’s top-secret mass surveillance programs to the press, the White House and the NSA have maintained that they “are not spying on American citizens.” At a recent Black Hat security conference, General Keith Alexander, Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the NSA, told […]
“A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both.” ~ James Madison. While the country was focused on the trial of George Zimmerman this summer, another important trial was underway. This trial, though, did not want to draw the […]
Almost two weeks ago, Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. The city’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, immediately called for “significant” cuts to the pension funds of current retirees who had worked for the city. The pension shortfall accounts for $3.5 billion of the city’s $18 billion debt. It was one of […]
Americans appear to be bored by policy, titillated by private misdeeds. I get it. But, despite the fact that salacious news has always sold well, at least once upon a time it was only sprinkled in between real dialogue and serious journalism. I honestly don’t care what Anthony Weiner does with his penis. It is […]
When looking back at the careers of people like Diddy, or the founders of Instagram, people tend to call them lucky. They always say: “So and so is lucky. They wouldn’t have made it without it. I am not lucky.” That cop-out irks us big time. Don’t you hate that line? I can’t front, I […]
Once upon a time, Detroit was a mighty industrial giant, manufacturing cars for the entire world. By the 1950s, the Motor City had lured in 1.8 million people with plenty of good paying manufacturing jobs. This once fourth largest U.S. city birthed America’s middle class. At a recent concert at The Palace of Auburn Hills, […]
For years, activists and investigators have gone undercover to reveal shocking and horrible cases of animal cruelty at some of the country’s largest plants and farms. They often take pictures or record secret videos of the abuses, leading to prosecution, closures, recalls, or statements from the offenders promising to change such practices. Who can forget […]
What does #Justice4Travyon mean? Celebrities and everyday citizen alike have hit the social media circles showing support for the Martin family with the aforementioned hashtag. Does justice for Trayvon mean indicting and imprisoning George Zimmerman? If so, then what? What about Bo Morrison? Remember him? He was also an unarmed young black male who was […]
What can be as hard as building a business but worth more than a business? A relationship! Not the typical friendly hi and bye relationship, but that ride or die type. Where you know you always have someone rooting for you and that has your back. As entrepreneurs and hustlers, who has time for that? […]
In Intro to Journalism, first rule of thumb: “Follow the Money,” a line made famous by the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate investigation. Today, rarely – if ever – do you hear media outlets discuss campaign donations and their ties to policy. There is an unwritten rule in Washington’s Journalism […]
What if I told you that we could fix the problems of developing nations with one solution? Yes, one solution can decrease mortality rates of infants and mothers, reduce poverty and crime, fix climate change, decrease the spreading of HIV, lessen the dependency of foreign aid, and flourish communities. Over 200 million women in developing […]