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-- Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaymanTeam LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/layman-ltd/ *Layman's January 2023 Update*
January was a hard month to be a Black Entrepreneur. Despite meeting
our development goals, and doing so in half the time of a regular
startup, our company Layman ( http://www.Laymans.appwww.Laymans.app >)
is struggling to get funding. Layman is a proudly Black-owned company,
that comes with incredible market understanding but it also comes with
VC Bias, and sadly, a few funding partnerships we were excited about
in January fell through.
To quote Marlon Nichols, the co-founder and managing general partner
of MaC Venture Capital, diverse businesses tend to take the brunt of
VC slowdowns because firms typically resort to the status quo in times
of economic uncertainty, "We've always invested in white men and
that's what we're going to do right now. That's where we're
comfortable. That's where...