2022 March

This story was originally published in Elevate Dayton Another 20 Dayton-area entrepreneurs have joined the ranks of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses (10KSB) graduates after completing the second cohort of the rigorous 14-week virtual program lead by Sinclair College. Congratulations: Marcus Adams, Adams Enterprises Inc Sean Balnes, Red Tiger Investments, LLC Dulce Belcher, IMB Development...

By Nate Dillard, Story Originally Published in Elevate Dayton Jeffrey Mims, Jr. is the 57th mayor of Dayton and fourth Black person to hold the office. Elevate Dayton is launching a series asking local community leaders and stakeholders what having a Black mayor means to them. First up is Nate Dillard, Elevate Dayton publisher, LunarX™ Agency owner and digital...

Article By Dayton Business Journal Since its inception in 2019, Dayton-based LunarX™ Agency has been hyper-focused on diverse representation, creativity and technology to support an equitable and inclusive digital economy. For these efforts, the design and development business consultancy has been nominated in the Minority Business category for the Dayton Business Journal’s 2021 Business of the Year Awards....

Article By Elevate Dayton A Dayton-area company is making strategic acquisitions. The National Black Business Directory is the new owner of the BLVCK app (pronounced ‘black’), a popular news hub for black people. BLVCK brings more than a dozen black media outlets including BET, Black Enterprise, Ebony Magazine and Blavity all in one place for readers....

Episode Description In this episode, Natalie D. chats with Nate Dillard, the Chief Executive Officer of LunarX™ Agency (a digital marketing firm), about how strategic partnerships can add value to your business. Nate dives into how his background and skills lead him to be a Top-Producing, Award-Winning Serial Entrepreneur & Industry Expert in the Digital...

Article By Dayton Business Journal Nate Dillard has a simple explanation for his entrepreneurship journey: He followed in his father’s footsteps. “When my dad left the military, he started his own IT business,” Dillard said. “That’s why I followed that legacy. My dad did it. I saw it happen. So, I did what I saw — and I’ve done...

Article By Dayton Business Journal The link between educational inequity and incarceration has been studied for decades. In the U.S., as of 2003, more than 60% of state prison inmates did not receive a high school diploma — and a later study by researchers at Northeastern University found that about one in 10 young men who dropped out of high...

Article by Dayton Business Journal Last year, a group of entrepreneurs banded together to identify solutions for a complex problem: underrepresentation. More than 99% of Ohio companies, about 950,000 of them, are small businesses. Together, they account for nearly half of the state’s workforce and create tens of thousands of new jobs each year — but the...