For two months, eight black entrepreneurs worked (and some lived) together in a rented house in Mountain View, California, which is the same city Google, a NewMe sponsor, calls home.  Having removed himself from the Silicon Valley technology scene for a decade, Williams re-emerged on Thursday to demonstrate the project he's been working on for four years with two colleagues in New York.  When Spaces begins testing in the next few weeks, people will be able to sign up for an online storage locker, which allows them to organize, search and transmit various types of data. It can handle files, e-mails, calendars, Twitter messages and other digital information that competitors generally don't facilitate.  The concept is unique, yet familiar to investors salivating over the unexpected success of another new Web-storage service, Dropbox. Williams' Kloud.co been self-funded so far, but he is about ready to exchange equity in his company for cash.  Before the dotcom bubble burst a decade ago, Williams had raised $40 million for an Internet music service called Clickradio. But he is an anomaly of sorts in the Silicon Valley institution, where black people don't typically start Internet businesses and, for that or whatever other reason, rarely receive venture capital.  Despite his legacy and deep connections in Silicon Valley, Williams was nervous on demo day.  "I will never go up there in front of a roomful of people and not be nervous," he said in an interview afterward. "The tech industry is pretty clubby," he said earlier, and it often shuns prospects who "didn't go to Stanford or work at Google."  Among the presenters, Williams stood out not because he's a person of color but because he's the grayest of those who presented on stage, with salt-and-pepper hair on his head and face.
Hank Williams has performed dozen of times to audiences like the one here on Thursday at the Kapor Capital investment firm.This time, however, the 46-year-old software veteran wasn't the only black