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Why Black Businesses Fail (Part 4): Insufficient Financial Capital
Starting a business can be viewed as a strategic game. Like all games that one intends to win, one must begin with a sound…
Several Ways Black Businesses Can Attract Investors
Black businesses generate over $180 billion in revenue each year and create over 1 million jobs. Also, Black women are the fastest growing segment…
Why Some Black Businesses Fail (Part 3): Discrimination by Non-Black Americans
Black businesses can fail when non-Black Americans engage in racial discrimination. Non-Black Americans may refuse to become customers of the businesses, refuse to supply…
Jeanette Epps: First Black Astronaut To Board The International Space Station
The International Space Station is a functioning laboratory operating 250 miles above Earth, managed through a multinational framework involving NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA, and…
Why Black Businesses Fail (Part 2): Insufficient Cultural Capital
Many Black businesses fail because entrepreneurs who operate those businesses do not have sufficient “cultural capital.” Here, cultural capital means the practical knowledge and…
Why Black Businesses Fail: Discrimination from Black People
Part of Shoppe Black’s mission is to help reduce the rate at which Black Businesses fail. To help identify and understand some of these…