Building Your Business: Gives advice on scaling your business for the future with the Director of MIEC.

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey. She is the founding Director of the Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. They assist in the development of minority entrepreneurship.

The Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) is a global model for higher education and industry collaborations to foster innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. Established in 2004 as a unit of Morehouse College, the Center has continually operated with an internal and external focus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship with people of color.

Since its inception the Center has secured grants and contracts in excess of $50M and impacted over 2100 students. Through the Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé Program we partnered with over 17 large mentoring corporations and assisted over 100 technology protégé growth companies nationwide. Our efforts of providing developmental assistance to these protege companies resulted in an increase in $20M in revenue and created over 150 new technology jobs.

On Wednesday, December 11, 2024, MIEC will commemorate its 20th anniversary with the unveiling of the Building Black Business Report 2024 starting at 9 a.m. inside the Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center on the campus of Morehouse College. The report details an 18-month community engagement research initiative convening Atlanta-based Black business serving organizations. Immediately afterward, there will be a legacy impact luncheon to commemorate the significant impact MIEC has had on the transformation of Black entrepreneurship. The organization will also reveal its plans for a bold and influential future. Since 2004, MIEC has developed life-changing opportunities for more than 400 small businesses, resulting in more than $255 million in revenue growth and $35 million in capital access.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. I am Rishon McDonnell, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
0:10.5	where we encourage people to stop reading other people's success stories and start planning their own.
0:16.1	Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country, talk to celebrities,
0:20.7	and ask them how they are running their companies, and speak with nonprofits who are making a difference in their local communities.
0:27.9	Now sit back and listen as we unlock the secrets to their success on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
0:35.5	Welcome. This is Roshan McDonald.
0:38.1	As you know, this is my show that I produce every week with my team.
0:43.6	This is a weekly money-making conversation masterclass show.
0:46.8	The interviews and information that this show provides offer everyone.
0:50.3	It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and start living your own.
0:54.9	If you want to be a guest on my show, please visit our website, Moneymakingconversations.com, and click the be a guest button.
1:03.0	My next guest is the founding director of the Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center.
1:09.7	She's been on my show before, and I'm so happy that she made time to come back.
1:14.0	They assist in the development of minority entrepreneurship.
1:17.8	Please welcome the Money Making Conversations Masterclass, Dr. Tiffany.
1:22.4	How did you know, Dr. Tiffany?
1:24.9	Oh, awesome.
1:26.4	First of all, thank you so much for having me back. Wow. And congratulations to you and the show. I am always excited to be here. So thank you. Thank you for having me.
1:37.2	We know that you're perfect for my show because this show is based on small businesses and entrepreneurship opportunities, giving everybody a voice in this landscape
1:45.6	because so many people want to understand and be an entrepreneur, but they don't know how
1:51.1	the tools or where to go. Tell her about exactly what you do as the founding director of the
1:56.4	Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. Awesome, yes.
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