1 Million Cups Sacramento at The Sacramento Observer

A weekly meetup where 2 entrepreneurs present their early-stage businesses to an audience of their peers for advice and feedback.
About this Event

1 Million Cups Sacramento is having an in-person meetup on Wednesday, September 16, at The Sacramento Observer.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone in our community face-to-face!

This will be a hybrid meeting so those who can't come in person can join us on zoom.

Presenters:

Disc Golf Light LLC makes solar-powered LED lights that mount on any disc golf basket for night play. The universal-fit design snaps onto standard basket types with no tools, charges by day, and illuminates the target at night. Currently field-testing prototypes at Auburn-area courses and selling early units to league players, with a manufacturing-optimized design in development for course sales.

Jay The Cheesecake Queen is a Sacramento-based cheesecake manufacturing and wholesale distribution company creating convenient, premium grab-and-go desserts for convenience stores, gas stations, markets, cafés, and restaurants. Our goal is to build a recognizable local dessert brand through retail distribution, making our cheesecakes available in everyday places while creating a scalable business that can expand throughout Northern California.

Arrive early to have a chance to say hello to your old friends and to make some new ones!

Agenda

8:30-9:00 Freeform socializing (optional)

9:00-10:00 Formal Program - 2 presenters

10:00-10:30 Freeform socializing (optional)

If you can’t come in person, we will also be live-streaming the meeting on Zoom.

Thank you to our venue and coffee sponsor, The Sacramento Observer!

Since its founding on November 22, 1962, The Sacramento OBSERVER has been a central voice for the African American community in Sacramento, across California, and throughout the West Coast. The newspaper was established by Dr. William H. Lee, local radio personality Geno Gladden, and businessman John W. Cole, who recognized the urgent need for a weekly publication that would document and amplify the experiences, achievements, and concerns of Black Americans at a time when mainstream media largely ignored them.

Following the untimely passing of Gladden, William and his wife Kathryn C. Lee assumed full leadership in 1965, forming the Lee Publishing Company. Under their guidance, The OBSERVER expanded steadily, producing multiple publications across the West Coast, including editions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Reno, Solano County, Stockton, and Sacramento — establishing The OBSERVER as a prominent regional voice and a model for excellence in reaching the Black community.

The OBSERVER has earned the John B. Russwurm Trophy — awarded by the National Newspaper Publishers Association as the nation's top Black newspaper — eight times, most recently in 2025. Collectively, the publication has received more than 800 awards for journalism excellence and community service, affirming its role as a benchmark in the Black Press.

Learn more at

https://www.theobserver.media/about/about

Thank you to our annual sponsor !