Kyle Westaway

19/05/2020

My most recent article on PPP loan forgiveness.

The SBA has failed to give clear guidance on the details of loan forgiveness, and this has created confusion amongst entrepreneurs. This new application brings some clarity.

01/05/2020

If you’re looking for an intelligent and inspiring documentary to get you through quarantine… Check out THE NEW BREED - The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, which you can stream for FREE for one week only at NEWBREED.TV

I'm proud to have a small feature in the doc.

https://www.facebook.com/NewBreedMovie/videos/218151716167957/

01/05/2020

Just wrote my first article on Forbes about the challenges entrepreneurs are facing with the EIDL application process. Have you applied? Love to hear your thoughts / comments.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has a loan program to respond to natural disasters called Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).

22/04/2020

If you’re interested in building a good company and a meaningful life, you should subscribe to the Real Good Business podcast by and . The most recent episode asks the question: What does COVID-19 make possible? talks about her company’s pivot to mask making. They were kind enough to invite me on for a short cameo about and more importantly, with the magic of editing, they even make me sound smart! Check it out.

17/03/2019

Walking across the bridge in Selma, the starting point of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression, and were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. 📸

17/03/2019

Bullet hole in the window of the Jackson MS office of the NAACP from the 1960’s when Medgar Evars was the Field Secretary there. He was a humble and resolute leader. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, which included the enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated at his home a few blocks away in 1963 by Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist and Klansman, while JFK was giving his speech on civil rights.

17/03/2019

Hollis Watkins is an activist in Mississippi who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement activities in the state during the 1960s. He wrote and still to this day sings many of the songs of the movement. He became a member and organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961, was a county organizer for 1964's "Freedom Summer", and assisted the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to unseat the regular Mississippi delegation from their chairs at the 1964 Democratic Party national convention in Atlantic City. He founded Southern Echo, a group that gives support to other grass-roots organizations in Mississippi. He also is a founder of the Mississippi Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. @ Jackson, Mississippi

16/03/2019

The final installment of the “BE” series is Brandan Bmike Odums first solo show as a visual artist. Studio BE is a 35,000 sq ft warehouse in the bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, LA. The show “Ephemeral Eternal” is a calumniation of everything he learned from Project BE and Exhibit BE as well as exploring his truth as an artist. It was an ambitious project, 6 months in the making, most of the work done in spray paint. @ New Orleans, Louisiana

07/01/2019

Weekend Briefing No. 256
- Dark Side of the Moon
- Startups & Rock Bands
- Discipline > Vision
- Tinder @ 5
- The Disease of More
- The Best Way to Learn Anything
- Fav Facts

Welcome to the weekend and welcome to 2019! Here are some tunes to kick off the year. Also, I’ll be in Boston for most of January. If you’re around, hit me up. Prime Numbers 45 MM – Netflix reports that its latest flagship show, ‘Bird Box’, was viewed by 45m people. 921,000 – Japanese wo...

26/11/2018

Weekend Briefing No. 250 - https://weekendbriefing.com/250
- The End of the Beginning
- Feeling the Stones
- Geno-economists
- We Are Never Getting Back Together
- Fake Fingerprints
- Teens & S*x
- Peak Range

Welcome to the weekend. This is the 250th week in a row that I’ve sent out the Weekend Briefing. What started out with just a simple email to friends has grown. This week we just crossed 25,000 subscribers! I’m grateful for your support and engagement. Because of you, I’m excited to write ever...

19/11/2018

Weekend Briefing No. 249 - https://weekendbriefing.com/249
- What is AI?
- S*x & Mobility
- M-Pesa Goes Global
- Less is Better
- Harari in the Valley
- Startup Valuation
- In Pursuit of the Interesting

Welcome to the weekend. I spent Thursday afternoon at PayPal this week for Village Capital’s FinTech Accelerator, I must say I was impressed with the companies I saw there. Also, for those who are interested, check out the full conversation between myself and Susan McPherson on Profit & Purpose at...

12/11/2018

Weekend Briefing No. 248 - https://weekendbriefing.com/248
- When No One Retires
- Missing Millennial Men
- A (Unsettled)
- Stop Asking for a Carbon Tax
- FDA for Algorithms
- Impact @ Scale
- AI Trainers

Welcome to the weekend. It was great to see some of you at The Atlantic’s Power of Purpose summit this week. If you weren’t there, here’s a short clip of me talking about innovation at Nike. It’s been a big week in our community. Friends have won a seat in US Congress, raised a fund …