Broadmic Startup Shortcuts

Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategy consultant and agent of change, founded StartUp Box, a social enterprise in the South Bronx generating entry level jobs in the tech industry. Kelly Hoey and Majora chat about the massive opportunity behind StartUp Box, how Majora is rolling it out in other cities, and her philosophy about not letting other people’s perception of you stand in the way of your work. Notes It’s Embarrassing How Few Black Female Founders Get Funded  by Davey Alba, Wired South Bronx Gets High-End Coffee; Is Gentrification Next? by Jeff Gordinier, New York Times Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy, iBooks How One Entrepreneur Convinced Beyoncé To Invest In Her Startup by Clare O'Connor, Forbes Additional Reading Tech Diversity: Message vs Messenger by Majora Carter, LinkedIn Majora Carter has a genius idea to get more people into tech jobs by Becky Bracken, SheKnows How social entrepreneurship is making a difference in the world by Bérénice Magistretti, TechCrunch Urban Onshoring: The