“Today, Black America
is missing out on a vital element required for job creation and wealth
generation: an innovative infrastructure that focuses on high-growth
entrepreneurship fueled by a pipeline of STEM ingenuity and risk capital. Such
an infrastructure would be the foundation of capital investments necessary to
fund an ecosystem of high-growth entrepreneurship.” – Mike Green,
Venture Capitalists Aren’t Investing In Black Entrepreneurs, Huffington
Post April 5, 2011.
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