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Black People, Venture Capital and Crowdfunding

I recently gave a talk at the 2015 National Black MBA Association, INC. Washington DC Chapter (NBMBAA-DC) Entrepreneurship Expo. My talk, titled “Black People and Venture Capital: Why You May Never Get Funded,” available at  https://youtu.be/gXGBEUoxHHs I started with a discussion of the key financial institution in the country, the Federal Reserve Board, which controls the allocation of capital via monetary policy, the tools used to control the supply of money.  The Fed is located at 20th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W. and I encouraged DC entrepreneurs to visit the institution, since the Fed directly impacts the ability of small businesses to get capital. I also encouraged Black businesses in DC to use the recently established Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion as a powerful potential source of capital and contracts. Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act contains a provision creating an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (