The Black Male Entrepreneur Incubator 2021 (formerly “institute”) are incubating Black-owned brands who have the potential to go national and global. The Black Male Entrepreneur Institute (The BME Institute™ ©2015) provides both seasoned and novice millennial black male entrepreneurs with a 16 week dynamic and personalized business developmental experience. The selected cohort will matriculate thr
ough a curricula led by subject matter experts from the framework of our nation’s most competitive business institutions. The entrepreneurs will also receive business development counseling from a cadre of diverse business leaders with a culminating experience that allows cohort members to pitch to a selection of CEO’s and investors from the region. Through this experience, cohort members will exchange ideas, lessons learned and best practices with fellow entrepreneurs during formal and informal sessions as they enhance, education & empower one another. The vision is to increase the presence, success and visibility of successful black male millennial entrepreneurs nationally and in select global markets who aim to increase the unemployment rate and address a social or civic challenge in the respective regions
The BME Institute believes that the development of successful black male entrepreneurs through The BME Institute is a solution to decreasing the national unemployment rate and a model on how successful business practices in communities can influence self-sustainability and servant leadership in underserved communities. The BME Philosophy is the special strength of The BME Institute is that it develops entrepreneurs with the use of professional development, mentoring and holistic development by using conventional and non-traditional techniques that develops the business owner and business simultaneously.
