American entrepreneurs are among the most welcoming social groups in the world. Anyone can join their ranks.
You will be discriminated against on the basis of your ability and passion. Your race, religion, age, net worth and politics will be overlooked (unless they negatively affect your work).
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How do entrepreneurs make connections and get funding? Isn’t it more than possible that coming from a privileged background gives you the access to resources and contacts that would impede — or possibly completely subvert — an equally talented underprivileged person’s success?
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If you really have an entrepreneurial spirit, you would not sit there and say, “well I cannot succeed because I do not have the funding.” Instead you would say, “If I work hard at it, and my idea/product/business is good enough, I will succeed.” And that is the truth because you are competing on ideas and executions, nothing else.
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