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Building Generational Leaders PUBLISHER'S PEACE What is a Start Up? I have such a fascination with new businesses. It's what's called in the tech w Subscribe Building Generational Leaders For the latest menu options, please CLICK! (Paid AD) NGLC Leadership Luncheon Partner. CLICK for details! (Paid AD) C. Dwayne West / CEO MG Media PUBLISHER'S PEACEWhat is a Start Up? I have such a fascination with new businesses. It's what's called in the tech world as start ups. What is a start up? It's a new innovative business that's looking to break tradition and disrupt the way products or services are normally executed and presented. TBTNews is a disruptive start up. Blue 1647 is an amazing start up. Macro is a disruptive new start up. Andrew Stroths' Action Injury Law Group will disrupt with his new start up law firm. WVON's The Commentators are a very new disruptive communication outlet for its participants to express issues affecting our community with transformational solutions. To create a start up you must be a risk taker and someone who can foresee the future of business and either invest or advise the new model in which to launch an enterprise. I consider myself a prophetic thought leader with great vision. I have always been ahead of the game in business from my first hip hop magazine, to my hip hop/R&B awards show and now with TRUTH B TOLD News Service. Speaking of a successful start up, Emile Cambry's Blue 1647, which recently opened its 4th location in St. Louis, as well as a new tech center in Operation Push's historic building, will host his second annual fundraiser this Thursday, Sept 10 at his Pilsen location, 1647 S, Blue Island (Chicago). BLUE1647 is an entrepreneurship and technology innovation center focused on education, workforce and economic development in technology. To purchase tickets or for more information, please visit www.blue1647.com or contact allyson@blue1647.com. I love the start up model. I love seeing an idea come from nothing to something. I hope to join forces with other like-minded visionaries who understand that investing in other disruptive mechanisms is how we'll change our community - one start up at a time. Peace and One Love. I Write to Differ... American Dreams There is no better example of the power of a loving, caring and present father, then when you see two dynamic athletes who are incredible America children and champions. Venus and Serena Williams owe a debt of gratitude to the man who cared. The who loved. The man who directed and designed the life for tennis. Today, because of their dad's vision and commitment, they are living the American Dream. They should be emulated and duplicated as winners, and their dad should be molded and published in history books for generations of people to read - that this is how you raise winning children. Greatness at its best! PLEASE CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS (Paid AD) TBTNEWS HEADLINEU.S. Senate Candidate To Address Professional Women Working women play a vital role in keeping the American economy strong. Despite the progress women in the workplace have made in recent years, equal pay, quality daycare and access to healthcare remain challenges that prevent many from realizing their full potential and rising to senior levels of executive management. U.S. Senate candidate Andrea Zopp will speak on these key policy issues in a keynote address to the Professional Women’s Club of Chicago (PWCC). Zopp’s appearance launches the PWCC’s 2015-2016 programming year. In her speech, Women and the Power of Opportunity, Zopp, who has spent her career in senior leadership roles in the public, private and non-profit sectors, will share her personal journey as a working woman with a family as well as her experience in improving the lives of women during her tenure at the Chicago Urban League. Professional Women’s Club of Chicago 2015-2016 kickoff luncheon is Wednesday, September 9 from 11:30-1:30pm at Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W. Jackson Blvd. For more information visit: www.pwcc.org. For media inquiries, please contact Roderick K. Hawkins, Director of Communications, Andrea Zopp for U.S. Senate at 312-952-2333 or roderick@andreazoppforsenate.com or www.andreazoppforsenate.com. PLEASE CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS (Paid AD) PLEASE CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS (Paid AD) Charles King BUSINESS PROFILEPremium Content Company Special Correspondent: Cynthia Littleton Super agent Charles King leaves WME to launch a company focused on content and brands designed to appeal to multicultural audiences. The first African-American partner at WME, King built a client roster that also included M. Night Shyamalan and Janelle Monae. King is one of showbiz’s most prominent African-American talent reps and the only black partner in the 100-year plus history of WME. King joined the mailroom of what was then the William Morris Agency in 1997. He was promoted to agent two years later. The new banner, dubbed Macro, aims to produce film, TV and digital content targeting African-American, Latino and multicultural audiences. The company is in the midst of assembling an “eight-figure” round of financing from various investors including Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs, who has committed nearly $10 million. The company said it is developing projects with filmmakers Craig Brewer and Ryan Coogler. King, 45, whose clients have included Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, who both have been a trailblazers. From his years at WME, King has plenty of other connections to draw on in building the company, developing “brands and new platforms at the intersection of content, lifestyle and technology.” Brewer notes that it's been difficult to sell his films, which feature predominantly African-American casts, but that King helped open doors for him. "Charles has never been afraid of obstacles," says Brewer. "He puts in the work. He has a vision, and knows how to execute it." King said he had created an advisory board for the company that includes Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Citibank head of corporate and investment banking Raymond McGuire. “There were two major catalysts that propelled me to move to L.A. and enter the industry over 15 years ago: My vision to build a media company one day and the knowledge that what I saw on screen did not fully reflect the spectrum of who we are,” King said in announcing the company. “It’s clear to me now, as it was then, that there’s a growing appetite for content that serves the more diverse world we live in. The one underlying theme is 'premium,' " he says. "I'm looking for artistic integrity." King has been awarded many accolades, such as The Grio's 100, Howard University Distinguished Alumni Award, Top 50 Power Brokers in Hollywood (Black Enterprise) The Most Influential African American, Latinos & Asian Americans (Fortune Magazine) The Catalyst Award (8th Annual ADCOLOR Conference & Awards) and The Power 100 List (Ebony Magazine) "There is a need for a vehicle like this," he says. "It will make a statement and provide an outlet. I want it to blaze a road for others to follow much like what I've done already in the agency world." PLEASE CLICK FOR INFORMATION! (Paid AD) Comedian Alex Thomas TBTNEWS COMEDY HOUROne Night at the Promontory Dough Street Entertainment and Mr. Steal Your Wig Productions present comedian Alex Thomas for one night and two shows at the Promontory Chicago on Wednesday, September 9. The first show begins at 7 pm, second show at 10 pm. The show will be hosted by Just Nesh, featuring Dave Helem with music by DJ E. DIZZ. A portion of each ticket price will be donated to the Mytosis Association. For information, visit www.myositis.org. To purchase tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6068155. Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California. He grew up with a musical background. His mother, a classical pianist, and his father, Alexander Sr., was a member of one of the greatest bands in R&B history: Earth, Wind, and Fire. Right after high school, Alex landed his first job on In Living Color. Two years later, Will Smith hired Thomas as a writer on his hit sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. As a stand-up comedian, Thomas has starred in two one-hour comedy specials, Straight Clownin' on Showtime and BET's ComicView. Thomas has opened up for such stars as Sinbad, Mark Curry, Damon Wayans, and Bill Cosby. The stand-up superstar of comedy who was Jamie Foxx’s sidekick on The Jamie Foxx Show, also appeared on Martin, The Wayans Brothers, Moesha and The Parkers. He appeared on several talk shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Premium Blend on Comedy Central. He has appeared in films such as The Players Club, Two Can Play That Game, Just Married, and The Wash. Complementing his entertainment background, Thomas is also an avid golfer, playing in celebrity golf tournaments with the likes of Magic Johnson, Eric Dickerson, George Lopez, Samuel L. Jackson, Alonzo Mourning, and Tony Dorsett. For media inquiries, contact Christi Harber, Christi With an Eye PR at christiwithaneye@aol.com. PLEASE CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS (Paid AD) Eric Horn BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTMentors Matter Contributing Correspondent: Eric Horn Would you take the advice of someone who has been where you are trying to go professionally? If not, you need to reconsider your answer and invest in the time you need to find and work with a mentor. Having a mentor will help you fast track your career by getting keen advice from him or her. Having a mentor will also gain you access to people who you would never have met on your own. If you don’t have a mentor, obtaining one may be easier than you think. If you have someone that you look up to or wouldn’t mind getting advice from, focus your efforts on getting to know that person and ask if you could spend some time with him or her. You are responsible for driving the mentoring relationship so make sure that you are serious and NOT wasting your mentor’s time. Wasting someone’s time is the best way to ruin a professional relationship. Avoid doing this and make sure you are doing everything in your power to maintain that professional relationship. If you want more tips to take your career to the next level, go over to www.ericbhorn.com and sign up for a complimentary chapter of my new book, How Professional Is Your Development.