It was an historic last night in Mountain View, CA as the first annual New Me Accelerator program, designed to motivate African-American technological entrepreneurship, launched on the campuses of Google, Inc.
Created by Angela Benton (founder) and Wayne Sutton, NME has been the continuation of Ms. Benton’s commitment to empower and create opportunity for African-Americans in the digital space.
Hosted by Interactive One Chief Technology Officer, Navarrow Wright, the NME kick-off event asked 12 young black digital entrepreneurs to pitch their product and business ideas to an executive panel of venture capitalists including leaders from Syncom and David Krane from Google Ventures. Mr. Krane, the 85th employee of Google, Inc and former head of Global Communications for the search giant, offered constructive feedback and heartfelt counsel to the young entrepreneurs, many of whom had no former experience pitching their ideas.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Black Startups Get Big Push From "New Me Accelerator" Program | News One
