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Minority Entrepreneurs And Fast Failure, Jesse P. Houchens
Minority Entrepreneurs And Fast Failure, Jesse P. Houchens
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
Minority businesses now make up more than a quarter of all U.S. businesses; yet, due to discriminatory lending practices, cultural aversions to debt, and limited access to capital, these businesses continue to have higher failure rates. At the same time, m inority entrepreneurs are more likely to rely on informal lending and less likely to turn to bankruptcy for relief of debt. Doing so slows down failure for minority entrepreneurs — contra Silicon Valley’s new mantra, “fail fast” — and diminishes the minority entrepreneur’s ability to efficiently reallocate resources towards more productive ventures. In this essay, I distinguish the minority …
Minority Entrepreneurs And Fast Failure, John Taylor Jensen
Minority Entrepreneurs And Fast Failure, John Taylor Jensen
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
Minority businesses now make up more than a quarter of all U.S. businesses; yet, due to discriminatory lending practices, cultural aversions to debt, and limited access to capital, these businesses continue to have higher failure rates. At the same time, m inority entrepreneurs are more likely to rely on informal lending and less likely to turn to bankruptcy for relief of debt. Doing so slows down failure for minority entrepreneurs — contra Silicon Valley’s new mantra, “fail fast” — and diminishes the minority entrepreneur’s ability to efficiently reallocate resources towards more productive ventures. In this essay, I distinguish the minority …
Thinking Outside Of The Race Boxes: A Two-Pronged Approach To Further Diversity And Decrease Bias, Samia E. Mccall
Thinking Outside Of The Race Boxes: A Two-Pronged Approach To Further Diversity And Decrease Bias, Samia E. Mccall
Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
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