haha...thats great, Here as well;<p>I've never felt like race was a big issue in my local startup community. There are plenty of black, brown, olive, tan, yellow, and peach individuals sprinkled throughout in most events I attend here in Houston.<p>Sometimes it would be nice to connect with them just we share that kind of commonality, but I always felt that creating a "black startup" meeting group would be extremely cheesy and too inclusive.<p>I don't care what color they are as long as they come up with good ideas and do what they say they will do.<p>That being said...markets are markets and if you have some cultural or ethnic insight into an opportunity for a business or a way to help your specific community; you should count yourself lucky for being born whatever you are and try to capitalize on it.<p>Theres no reason the team you build has to be racially ?inclusive/exclusive?, and actually the aforementioned diversity actually helps strengthen teams in my opinion by providing those different cultural or ethnic perspectives.
Hank Williams (<a href="http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/" rel="nofollow">http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/</a>) founded ClickRadio (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickradio" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickradio</a>) in 1999, and is now doing <a href="http://kloudshare.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kloudshare.com/</a><p>I did some contracting for Kloudshare. Hank is a pretty impressive guy.
Does it even matter whether you are Black, White, Brown or Pink, Red, Yellow, Green or whatever as far as the person is smart, dedicated and hardworking.
I wrote about it a while ago<p><a href="http://oonwoye.com/2010/04/05/black-founders/" rel="nofollow">http://oonwoye.com/2010/04/05/black-founders/</a>