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BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Black Entrepreneur Blueprint - Q & A With Melvin Graham, Jay Jones, And Sherman Perryman From BEB Live In LA - 408

BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Jay Jones

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8680 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Listen to this amazing Q & A session with Black Entrepreneur Blueprint founder Jay Jones, Director and Executive Producer Melvin Graham, and Executive Producer Sherman Perryman as they take questions from the audience after the recent "Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Live In LA" event.

This session took place right after Jay interviewed filmmaker Melvin Graham (episode # 408), producer of the upcoming Amazon Prime documentary series "Black Business LA."

There are many gems in this Q & A session as the audience asks some very interesting questions about:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • How to navigate entrepreneurship as a Black-owned company
  • Creating partnerships with major players in the entertainment industry
  • Getting a seat at the table
  • Following your dreams

 

WATCH THE Q & A SESSION ON YOUTUBE

https://youtu.be/mUvzbIkEV6c

 

LISTEN TO THE INITIAL INTERVIEW WITH MELVIN GRAHAM IN EPISODE # 408

https://traffic.libsyn.com/blackentrepreneurblueprint/Black_Entrepreneur_Blueprint_408_-_Melvin_Graham_-_Making_His_Dream_To_Become_A_Hollywood_Film_Producer_Come_True.mp3

 

WATCH THE INITIAL INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE - EPISODE # 408

https://youtu.be/AgSgP4RfjJU

 

FOLLOW BLACK BUSINESS LA https://blackbusinessla.com/

 

GET YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES https://blackentrepreneurblueprint.com/

 

GET THE SHOW NOTES & BEB NEWSLETTER https://pages.rasa.io/signup/36276896-19cd-5b44-122b-a74c002ddf2b?utm_source=signup

Transcript

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0:00.0

We want to do a Q&A.

0:02.7

You guys, we're open book.

0:06.0

Ask Melvin anything you want.

0:07.6

Ask me anything you want.

0:09.2

Entrepreneurship.

0:10.0

Your business, my business.

0:11.8

Entrepreneurship in general.

0:13.4

Melvin's entrepreneurial journey and also, obviously, about this film.

0:17.8

And this is interactive.

0:19.1

This is all family.

0:20.1

So I don't want to have to

0:20.8

pick people out of the audience and make them come down here and ask some

0:23.6

question all right so we live let's go who's up who's up so my question is how do

0:34.9

you think you get people to buy in to the black experience?

0:40.3

I want a production company as well as you.

0:42.3

And I find a lot of times when I go to NBC and Netflix,

0:46.3

all these big companies, it's like literally sometimes

0:50.3

I have a white assistant named Jill.

0:53.3

And it's the truth.

0:55.0

And I have to a lot of times send her in the places to get things established and start it,

1:01.0

and then we trick them and I pull up like, hey, and they're like, well, who happened?

1:06.0

You know, so I'm saying, how do you, how do you get people to buy into the black experience and trust in black

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