It's the social graph. If the mainstream does not notice, do what countless immigrant groups have done in countries the world over, group together form your own interest group and serve your group. You also see this behavior with industry groups, or worker groups. Content producers group, telecoms group, so they can advance themselves and self interest.<p>Why do Nigerians do relatively well, they'll find other Nigerians, help each other and steadily climb. Or Russians or Chinese immigrants, etc. Help from the mainstream helps, and it'd be good to get even footing, but lacking that, create a self interest group. It's not as though there are no rich people who are minorities who are also interested in investing in startups. Pursue the issue in a multi pronged fashion. Don't count on anyone in particular.
<p><pre><code> Only 12 Black women led startups (yes only 12) have raised
$1MM or more in outside funding since 2012.
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Twelve is now "zero"?
Some thoughts and questions here.<p>Should we in the tech industry feel obligated to spend energy on these social movements? Are we wrong and selfish to not?<p>Honestly, I'd rather not. I'd rather get technical things done, and let policy makers and influencers focus on those issues. If you're in on something with me, great AWESOME, I honestly don't care who you are. Things like race and gender don't matter to me as long as you can get work done. However, I do understand that being able to get work done in this industry is stemmed from a privileged advantage. -- Yes that sucks and is unfair, but how do we as a technical industry even change that when we need to focus on getting work done?
>DID found that even the WORST Startups led by white males raise more than the Best Startups led by Black Women.<p>This was big and in bold, but I didn't see any links to how they calculated this. Anyone else see how they found this?
Please change the article title to "A vanishingly small percentage of venture funding has been raised by black women". That is an accurate way of phrasing the facts. The current title is breaking my brain.
I know that the narrative is that there isn't diversity in tech, but I'm curious about the numbers of Asians who managed to get funding for their startups.
I clicked around and couldn't find the actual report. I want to read that instead of an infographic or blog post. Does anyone have a link to the report?
Here's a little more background on projectdiane for those that are interested: <a href="https://medium.com/@KathrynFinney/projectdiane-breaking-tech-s-diversity-catch-22-d06555ea2e52#.f5oxi85xo" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@KathrynFinney/projectdiane-breaking-tech...</a>
I guess I'm supposed to care? I'm afraid I don't. Nope - don't care.<p>If the author instead showed how there were all these superb startups led by black women that failed to get funding - I would.<p>I guess the difference stems from the unshared assumption that if black women represent 6% of US population, they should get 6% of VC funding.