Recently, North Carolina native Janice Bryant Howroyd, the first African-American woman to own and run a billion-dollar business, attributed part of her success to client advertisement. Her enterprise, Act 1 Group, is a workforce solutions company that began with just “a brain, a phone and a phonebook.”
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A Charlotte entrepreneur has established a $100,000 microloan fund for African-American entrepreneurs. The goal is promoting diversity in the local technology industry.