Apple News: What Unique Challenges Do Women and People of Color Face in the Startup World?
Female entrepreneurs received only 2.2% of venture capital funding in 2018. Women of color received less than 1%. Answer by Craig Hall, Chairman and Founder of HALL Group, Author of BOOM
Bloomberg Business Week: Environment Context Dashboard, Reigniting Startups (Podcast)
Craig Hall, Founder of the Hall Group, says a lack of capital is preventing entrepreneurs from starting businesses. His book is called "Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups." Bloomberg Business Week Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan
What Can The US Government Do Differently To Support Entrepreneurs?
When I started my business in the late 1960s, it never occurred to me that, at 18, I couldn’t start a business of my own. That was one of my rights as an American citizen. Indeed, when I started, I had few regulatory and other external obstacles to overcome. Today’s entrepreneurial climate is just the opposite. Despite the fact that entrepreneurship is more popular and praised than ever, entrepreneurs pursuing their version of the American Dream are burdened with overbearing regulations, lack of access to capital, burdensome student loans, and public policies that favor big businesses over new startups.
BOOM is On-Sale TODAY!
Craig Hall's new book, BOOM: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups, officially hits store shelves today.
How Does Entrepreneurship Benefit The Middle Class?
Hope and opportunity are the currency of a growing middle class and the foundation of the American Dream. Entrepreneurship can help cultivate this. And yet, as our economy and society have drifted into a greater divide between haves and have-nots, we have seen our middle class shrink. We have seen our politics become divisive as we look for easy answers and all go to our own corners and reinforce our own views.
Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups
There is an alarming decades-long decline of new business startups facing the United States today. BOOM exposes the reasons behind this downward spiral and outlines strategies to solve the problem.
