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Sice Me Participates in Pharrell Williams Black Ambition Prize
Sice Me Participates in Pharrell Williams Black Ambition Prize
Sice Me Participates in Pharrell Williams Black Ambition Prize
FORBES Dec 2, 2020,10:49am EST
Producer and rapper Pharrell Williams is coupling his entrepreneurial spirit and activism with the launch of Black Ambition, an incubator for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs launching startups in tech, design, healthcare and consumer products. Williams, 47, is the frontman for the initiative that awards grand prizes ranging from $1 million for a national competition to a $250,000 Historically Black College or University (HBCU) prize. The competitions, announced Wednesday, will run simultaneously. While the capital will go a long way to give Black and Latinx founded businesses a leg up, it's the mentorship and training that Williams and partnering organizations are banking on to bridge the racial wealth and equity gap.
Sice Me Launches HBCU Beta
Sice Me Participates in Pharrell Williams Black Ambition Prize
Sice Me Participates in Pharrell Williams Black Ambition Prize
ATLANTA Feb 1, 2021
Dennis Perkins, Founder and CEO of Sice Me, an online marketplace for safe and sustainable college campus transactions, has announced the launch of beta testing at Morehouse College. Mr. Perkins, a Freshman Marketing major, conceived Sice Me as an vehicle to provide entrepreneurship opportunities in a secure college community as well as opportunities for students to acquire just-in-time products and services at all price points with no carbon footprint. Sice Me plans a rollout to other AUC campuses following a successful beta and focus group testing at Morehouse.
Sice Me iOS App Now Available in Apple App Store
Sice Me Participates in Pharrell Williams Black Ambition Prize
Bullis Students Win $10,000 in School's Annual Shark Tank
WASHINGTON, DC
Sice Me is pleased to announce the availability of its iOS Mobile App in the Apple App Store. Sice Me users can download the App for quick and easy student transactions within a secure environment.
Dennis Perkins, Sice Me's Founder and CEO, developed the App and developed in collaboration with the Bullis School Entrepreneurship Capstone team to bring his college marketplace concept to a wide range of institutions and user device preferences.
Bullis Students Win $10,000 in School's Annual Shark Tank
Sice Me Founder Takes Home Prize at JPMorgan Chase Sponsored Pitch Competition
Bullis Students Win $10,000 in School's Annual Shark Tank
POTOMAC, MD APRIL 22, 2020
Students in the Bullis School’s Entrepreneurship Signature Program competed in the school’s annual Shark Tank competition on Tuesday.
This year’s competition was different than the competitions in years past because Bullis has moved to online learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. Four groups of students presented real business startups they’ve developed to to three judges: Bluemercury founder Marla Beck; Cava CEO Brett Schulman; and CEO and Founder of And1 Seth Berger.
The student team that came up with the business Sice Me, an “online marketplace for high schools and colleges that enables students to sell and receive non-essential goods,” ultimately won the competition, winning $10,000. Students in the group included Mingyang He, Zach Lieberman, Dennis Perkins, Alex Rolinski, Connor Shepard, James Snowden, and Dillon Weinberg.
The team came up with a mobile application that was tested by fellow Bullis students (before schools were closed because of the coronavirus). In the Sice Me application, students sold goods — mostly appliance items — in a digital marketplace. During the testing phase, Sice Me generated $1,118 in transactions, making a total of 26 sales.
After announcing Sice Me’s victory, Beck spoke on behalf of the judges: “We thought that this was something you could take to market right away.”
Marc Steren, the Bullis School’s entrepreneurship director, praised students involved in the program for their work, especially under the difficult circumstances of the coronavirus and online learning.
“It’s obviously put a restraint on their ability to acquire new customers but they’ve been go-getters,” Steren said.
Steren also teaches at Georgetown university and said students in Bullis’ Entrepreneurship Signature Program “are just as great as the collegiate level.”
Bluemercury founder, Cava CEO, And1 Founder Praise Sice Me
Sice Me Founder Takes Home Prize at JPMorgan Chase Sponsored Pitch Competition
Sice Me Founder Takes Home Prize at JPMorgan Chase Sponsored Pitch Competition
POTOMAC, MD APRIL 21, 2020
Four @BullisSchool student groups are presenting startup business ideas to three sharks: @Bluemercury founder Marla Beck; @CAVA CEO Brett Schulman; and Seth Berger, CEO and Founder of @AND1BASKETBALL.
So far one of the main investors in @ABCSharkTank, Mark Cuban, and U.S. @RepDavidTrone (D-Md.) have appeared on the @BullisSchool's virtual Shark Tank. @mymcmedia
After announcing Sice Me’s victory, Beck spoke on behalf of the judges: “We thought that this was something you could take to market right away.”
Sice Me Founder Takes Home Prize at JPMorgan Chase Sponsored Pitch Competition
Sice Me Founder Takes Home Prize at JPMorgan Chase Sponsored Pitch Competition
Sice Me Founder Takes Home Prize at JPMorgan Chase Sponsored Pitch Competition
OAK BLUFFS, MA AUGUST 12, 2019
Dennis Perkins, a rising senior at Bullis School in Potomac, MD, secured a top prize in the World of Money Youth Business Pitch Competition sponsored by JPMorgan Chase.
As part of the Youth Business Pitch Competitions, students develop their own business concepts, craft marketing plans, research their customers and direct competitors. They will also devise ways to incorporate technology into their concepts and develop revenue models.
Mr. Perkins will use the prize money to invest in website development and marketing.
JPMorgan Chase's Advancing Black Pathways initiative partnered with World of Money to combine the firm’s business and philanthropic resources to accelerate economic opportunity for black Americans.
JPMorgan Chase Partners with WorldofMoney through its Advancing Black Pathways Initiative
JPMorgan Chase Partners with WorldofMoney through its Advancing Black Pathways Initiative
JPMorgan Chase Partners with WorldofMoney through its Advancing Black Pathways Initiative
New York City, New York May 15, 2019
The WorldofMoney non-profit organization is delighted to partner with JPMorgan Chase
to continue its 14-year history in annually providing 120 classroom hours of youth financial and entrepreneurial
education, which is the foundation towards building generational wealth.
JPMorgan Chase launched its Advancing Black Pathways initiative earlier this year to combine the firm’s businessand philanthropic resources to accelerate economic opportunity for black Americans.
“We are proud to partner with Advancing Black Pathways to provide financial and entrepreneurship education for our youth and to encourage currency conversations within families, said Sabrina Lamb, CEO of the WorldofMoney. “This partnership shall have a direct educational impact on students,ages 7 – 21, who attend our annual Youth Financial Education Training Institute, participate in our youth business pitch competitions on Martha’s Vineyard and in New York City, and learn from JPMorgan Chase executives about internship and career opportunities during our college forums. Advancing Black Pathways directly supports our programs which encourages youth to become family team players, maximize their longer-term financial well-being and to balance consumer and investor behaviours. We urge all youth and their parents to join us in this urgent movement.”
As part of the Youth Business Pitch Competitions, these students will develop their own business concepts, craft marketing plans, research their customers and direct competitors. They will also devise ways to incorporate technology into their concepts and develop revenue models.
Head of Advancing Black Pathways Sekou Kaalund said WorldofMoney’s efforts to educate young people aboutpersonal finance and entrepreneurship aligns with the ABP mission.
“We’re proud to team up with WorldofMoney to help this rising generation understand what it takes to build lasting wealth through healthy personal finance behaviours and entrepreneurship,” Kaalund said. “By providing our youngpeople with this education early, we’re setting them on a path towards economic freedom.”
Advancing Black Pathways is focusing on improving economic growth for black Americans in three ways:
1. Strengthen Education and Job Training: Improve education and job readiness for black students. This
includes a commitment to hire more than 4,000 black students over the next five years in roles including
college and high school internships and apprenticeships. Additionally, the firm will expand partnerships with
Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other non-profit organizations to recruit talent and support
the professional development and financial health of black students.
2. Grow Careers: Promote a culture where all employees are treated fairly, with respect, and have access to
career opportunities. The firm will build on the success of its Advancing Black Leaders recruitment program
Kellogg School of Management LEAD Program Names Sice Me Most Viable Business
JPMorgan Chase Partners with WorldofMoney through its Advancing Black Pathways Initiative
JPMorgan Chase Partners with WorldofMoney through its Advancing Black Pathways Initiative
EVANSTON, IL JULY 1, 2019
Sice Me, led by CEO Dennis Perkins, took home the prize of "Most Viable Business" at the Prestigious LEAD Program Business Plan Competition at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Northwestern University joined the LEAD family in 1981. Since then, over 850 high school students have participated in the LEAD program at the Kellogg School of Management. They are led by the Academic Director and (6) talented and committed Resident Teaching Asistants, many of whom are LEAD or Northwestern alumni.
An online marketplace for college communities, Sice Me is now eligible to participate nationally in the 2019 Leading For Life Challenge.
The Kellogg program features Business Plan and Stock Market Competitions; MBA mentors provide advice and support during the preparatory stages leading up to the contests.
Over the past few years, LEAD Scholars at Northwestern have participated in corporate site visits and on-campus presentations with organizations such as: Ariel Capital, Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, Leo Burnett, Google, Loop Capital, and the Federal Reserve.
Meet Dennis
Dennis Perkins, Sice Me Founder & CEO
Dennis Perkins is a born entrepreneur. A Marketing Major at Morehouse College, Dennis developed Sice Me though innovation and iteration over years of business training. Dennis is an alumnus of the L.E.A.D. Program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, UCLA's Anderson School of Management's Summer Institute and the NYU Schack School of Real Estate's Summer Program. A native of New York City with roots in DC, Dennis received an Honors Entrepreneurship diploma from Bullis School in Potomac, MD. Dennis currently serves as a Boardroom Ambassador for Boardroom.TV, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman's multimedia platform that brings the very best of the sports business – and beyond – directly to fans.
Dennis's vision for Sice Me is to empower a diverse range of entrepreneurs on campuses around the world with a robust, safe and sustainable marketplace to showcase and monetize their goods and services while serving their student community.