Dedication to entrepreneurship
About this blog:
Entrepreneurship is a true way to fulfill your passion and generate income for your livelihood. Many people have started businesses and became very successful – Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Ewing Kauffman. This blog is dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship and the ideas/thoughts regarding this subject, particularly its role in local economic development.
Readers of this blog can expect to gain knowledge and resources to build stronger businesses. They can also become a part of a community of like-minded people striving for the same.
Writer: This blog is written by Yolanda Brown, MBA and owner of YB Consulting. You can find her bio here. She is also the Durham Small Business Examiner for Examiner.com.
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Cardinal Business: M Portrait Photography
This area will highlight businesses owned by people from across the country and in various sectors. Please read a little about these driven entrepreneurs and check out their company websites by clicking the company name.
Our goal is to allow you to be comfortable, beautiful, and to create memorable portraits.
M Portrait Photography is owned by Monique Harris and based in Raleigh, NC. It was created in response to her love of photography and providing people with beautiful images that enables your personality to shine. She specializes in non-studio portraits that are captured in the comfort of your home or location that holds special meaning to you.
In her words:
I’ve always held a life-long love with all aspects of photography. Whether it is attending a new museum exhibit, reading yet another photography book or magazine, practicing new techniques, immersing myself in classes, or simply engaging in conversation with other photographers. Photography has constantly been front and foremost in my life.
With M Portrait Photography you will not worry about waiting in line or feeling the pressure of a rushed photo shoot. Our goal is to allow you to be comfortable, beautiful, and to create memorable portraits.
It is my wish that affordable, professional portraits be assessable to everyone. Why not hire a professional photographer to capture your newborn’s precious first moments, family reunion, business portrait, club members, or to simply create an amazing online profile picture. Whatever your photo needs, M Portrait Photography will capture the essence of you, your family, or event.
Cardinal Business: M Portrait Photography
This area will highlight businesses owned by people from across the country and in various sectors. Please read a little about these driven entrepreneurs and check out their company websites by clicking the company name.
Our goal is to allow you to be comfortable, beautiful, and to create memorable portraits.
M Portrait Photography is owned by Monique Harris and based in Raleigh, NC. It was created in response to her love of photography and providing people with beautiful images that enables your personality to shine. She specializes in non-studio portraits that are captured in the comfort of your home or location that holds special meaning to you.
In her words:
I’ve always held a life-long love with all aspects of photography. Whether it is attending a new museum exhibit, reading yet another photography book or magazine, practicing new techniques, immersing myself in classes, or simply engaging in conversation with other photographers. Photography has constantly been front and foremost in my life.
With M Portrait Photography you will not worry about waiting in line or feeling the pressure of a rushed photo shoot. Our goal is to allow you to be comfortable, beautiful, and to create memorable portraits.
It is my wish that affordable, professional portraits be assessable to everyone. Why not hire a professional photographer to capture your newborn’s precious first moments, family reunion, business portrait, club members, or to simply create an amazing online profile picture. Whatever your photo needs, M Portrait Photography will capture the essence of you, your family, or event.
Cardinal Business: XTreme Designz Web Solutions
This area will highlight businesses owned by people from across the country and in various sectors. Please read a little about these driven entrepreneurs and check out their company websites.
XTreme Designz Web Solutions
Creative web design and internet marketing solutions for business
XTreme Designz (XD) Web Solutions is owned by Lakesha “Kesha” Brown who has been developing websites since 1996 which started as a hobby creating websites for friends and her local church. Throughout the years, she kept abreast of web design techniques and took several design courses, along with her college courses, to better understand the web and the trends in site development. In 2004, Kesha decided to launch Xtreme Designz and do what she enjoys most!
Kesha graduated from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering. She then earned a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix – St. Louis in 2002. She continuously takes courses and engage in joint ventures to expand her skillset.
Kesha has been awarded one of 19 2005 International Femtor Awards in the Emergine Leaders Division granted by the eWomen Network Foundation!!!
A native of East St. Louis, IL, Kesha enjoys reading, writing short stories, traveling, scrapbooking, and passionately supporting minority and women business organizations.
Cardinal Business: XTreme Designz Web Solutions
This area will highlight businesses owned by people from across the country and in various sectors. Please read a little about these driven entrepreneurs and check out their company websites.
XTreme Designz Web Solutions
Creative web design and internet marketing solutions for business
XTreme Designz (XD) Web Solutions is owned by Lakesha “Kesha” Brown who has been developing websites since 1996 which started as a hobby creating websites for friends and her local church. Throughout the years, she kept abreast of web design techniques and took several design courses, along with her college courses, to better understand the web and the trends in site development. In 2004, Kesha decided to launch Xtreme Designz and do what she enjoys most!
Kesha graduated from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering. She then earned a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix – St. Louis in 2002. She continuously takes courses and engage in joint ventures to expand her skillset.
Kesha has been awarded one of 19 2005 International Femtor Awards in the Emergine Leaders Division granted by the eWomen Network Foundation!!!
A native of East St. Louis, IL, Kesha enjoys reading, writing short stories, traveling, scrapbooking, and passionately supporting minority and women business organizations.



