MSIA has developed a unique set of strategies to connect mainstream entrepreneurial ecosystems with more diverse stakeholders. Chief among our strategies is forging and leveraging relationships with minority professional organizations to connect their pools of educated, diverse talent to opportunities in the mainstream entrepreneurial ecosystem. These connections not only have the ability to facilitate increased “deal flow” and economic activity in minority communities, but are critical for the overall competitiveness of the surrounding region as a whole. The following diagram provides a graphical depiction of our approach:
The mission of MainStreet Inclusion Advisors is to partner with both the institutional “mainstream” organizations that make up America’s budding innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, while further collaborating with America’s landscape of ethnic minority groups to ensure that the emerging businesses, projects and initiatives that fuel these budding >>read more<<
At its core, every innovation and commercialization process seeks to create a promising new business, and ultimately new jobs, business ownership and wealth. Every promising new business in these innovation processes requires a founder, a leadership team, support services, and investors, to name a few. Every investment and commercialization process requires >>read more<<
Our process is straight forward and simple. We work with the nation’s “mainstream” organizations and institutions principally engaged in the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems to understand the new businesses, projects and initiatives emerging in the collective “pipeline” of regional economies. We then concurrently work with the nation’s national >>read more<<