HOW JAY-Z BECAME SO SUCCESSFUL

Jay Z has found success by creating his own opportunities.
In doing so, he's gone from being a teen selling drugs on a Brooklyn street corner to a bona fide business mogul.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-jay-z-became-so-successful-2015-4?op=1#ixzz3XNtAPNJG

WEMOJIS LITE!!!! APP MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE!!!

YOUTUBE STAR KSL MAKES MILLIONS EVERY YEAR FROM PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!

Olajide "KSI" Olatunji is "essentially" a millionaire and definitely has a penthouse apartment in London, with plans to airlift a Jacuzzi to the roof, as well as a burnt-orange Lamborghini and some of the most expensive sneakers you can buy — and he got it all from playing video games.

 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-youtube-star-ksi-became-a-millionaire-through-gaming-2015-3#ixzz3W3usSMCE

READ THIS! BE A CREATOR..NOT JUST A USER!!

RW: If you just look at technology, especially social media, adoption among minorities, African-American [users] over-index. There are top technology platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook -- a little bit less on Facebook, but Twitter and Instagram especially -- where African-Americans over-index and were the influencers and were the drivers. A lot of them are entertainers. Long story short, we tend to be the users of early social platforms and technology platforms... mainly because of our need to connect with others like us.

"If you just look at technology, especially social media, adoption among minorities, African-American [users] over-index… It’s funny that we tend to be the first users but we’re not the creators."

It’s funny that we tend to be the first users but we’re not the creators. There’s a gap -- we want something, we just don’t know how to do it, then someone else figures it out and we become the first to use it. If we can help become the beginner or the leader that actually creates some of the things we know our market would use, I think it’s a core insight for the entire general population and there’s case studies that have already proven that.

FACEBOOK'S NEW GAME FOR OCULUS RIFT!!

EXTRA CREDIT - BLACK HISTORY MONTH POEM

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This 9-year-old makes $1 million a year opening toys