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Black Entrepreneurship In The United States

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers believe that a part of this is due to poor financial literacy, with 82% of those African Americans surveyed lacking knowledge of things such as their credit score, or of the state agencies designed to help small businesses. Despite this, Black entrepreneurs make up just 3.5% of all business owners in the US.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Even better, blockchains can spur local high-tech innovation. The Dubai Blockchain Strategy (disclosure: Vinay is the designer) envisions moving all government documents — more than 100 million documents per year — onto a blockchain by 2020, creating a new platform for innovation and huge cost savings.