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Minority Entrepreneurs Still Face Discrimination When Seeking Finance

The Horizons Tracker

Nearly ten years ago, a group of researchers from Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and Rutgers shed light on a disconcerting phenomenon: discrimination within the realm of bank loan services, which cast a shadow over the American Dream for minority entrepreneurs.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Providers Are Revolutionizing Business Funding

Strategy Driven

This allows entrepreneurs to scale their businesses without risking personal assets and debt. The former typically lend money based on your credit score and your business’s past cash flow, while the latter often invest in equity and require a large percentage of your company’s stock in exchange for funding.

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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. Hence, this funding model is a perfect fit for startup owners and entrepreneurs who are constantly looking for quick access to funds and reasonable interest rates. There Are No Hidden Costs. Summing Up.

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Understanding Gen Z in the Workplace

HR Digest

Generation Z are known for being more responsible with their money than millennials, so they tend to have a higher credit score. They want to be entrepreneurs , but many have no idea how to go about it or what it even means to be an entrepreneur. Generation z vs. Millennials in the Workplace.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. And limited credit is in part caused by the difficulty of predicting which small businesses will and won’t succeed. My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Neither sales nor employment have fully recovered, and credit seems harder to come by. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. And limited credit is in part caused by the difficulty of predicting which small businesses will and won’t succeed. My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending.