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We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by …, entrepreneurship has been an avenue out of poverty, and entrepreneurship has been promoted as a way to decrease welfare and …
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Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs received just 1% and 1.8% of the total venture capital funds disbursed between 2014 … entrepreneurs. This qualitative study sampled 16 Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs in St. Louis who are actively seeking business … alternative financing, and elicit recommendations on the best approach to get Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs more financing. The …
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The history of Black entrepreneurs from colonial times through most of the nineteenth century in the US whaling … entrepreneurs and how they influenced the abolition movement and other civil rights. These industrious people became whaling … captains. According to Tom Nicholas in VC: An American History (2020), these men should be considered entrepreneurs. By …
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In the decades after the Civil War and before the Great Migration, a set of remarkable Black business leaders and inventors emerged, including Elijah McCoy, noted inventor and innovator in engine lubrication; John Sullivan Deas, the first person canning salmon near Vancouver; Rev. Charles...
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We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...
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