- July 9, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Bringing years of experience working with small firms, Philadelphia business leader Donavan West is building a new program to help the local small business community: The tentatively-named Black Business Accelerator (not to be confused with Amazon‘s Black Business Accelerator of the same name).
West is still in the development stages of the new accelerator. It will use a cohort model to assist new Black businesses in sharpening their practices and preparing for growth.
West began what is now almost two decades of experience in business consulting and advising in the early 2000s. As West interacted with businesses, he noticed that many did not have the infrastructure needed to succeed in a sustainable way. It became normal for him to provide businesses with support via networking, collaboration and understanding how to increase capacity and scale up.
“I would engage with small businesses and help them with chartering,” he told Technical.ly. “Small…
