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Weekly Newsletter: Dogecoin cupcakes, life after Picasa and insurance for the under-served

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by Elizabeth Macbride
May 20, 2021
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A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride:

Here are two stark statistics from the world of banking that help explain why entrepreneurship in the United States is in a state of profound decline.

  • In 1994, there were 14,400 commercial banks in the United States. Today, there are fewer than 5,000. Most of that consolidation has been among community banks, which were best positioned to recognize the power and promise of local entrepreneurs.
  • Regulatory changes that began in the mid-1990s pushed consolidation in the banking sector. Then, the Dodd-Frank legislation helped particularly large banks become too big to fail. The four largest banks now control 80% of all deposits and are actively discouraged from taking the kinds of risks that lending to small businesses requires.

Connect the dots. Today, more of the people who want to be entrepreneurs are women and people of color, who have less family wealth to tap into. Now, they also have less access to outside capital.

If the U.S. Congress wanted to kill entrepreneurship, it couldn’t have done a better job.

These stats come from The New Builders, which is unexpectedly now an Amazon bestseller. In a world consumed by size, books about small business rarely break into the national consciousness, but The New Builders is gaining momentum. For a short time, we even topped Elon Musk’s new book, despite the fact that we are not handing out Dogecoin cupcakes.

I wouldn’t be above that to get the message out.  We have a rare window of opportunity after the pandemic to re-embrace the power of small businesses to create jobs, innovate and restore a badly needed sense of community.

Yesterday, Sen. John Hickenlooper, Democrat of Colorado, acknowledged that the harm done by Dodd-Frank legislation after the Great Recession far outweighs the protections for consumers. The legislation added so many regulatory requirements to banks that only the large ones survived.

Seth Levine and I tell the stories of today’s entrepreneurs in The New Builders, and offer some solutions, steps that people in the private sector can take to re-embrace small businesses and entrepreneurs of all kinds.

Some of the solutions will need to come from Washington, D.C, where Congress needs to reverse the policies that have helped turn banking into a utility and made small business loans unprofitable.

NOTE: We’re working on our next list of the most influential people in global entrepreneurship. Do you know someone who has encouraged entrepreneurs, set an example, offered thought leadership or been an ecosystem angel? If you have an idea, please let me know by responding to this email — I read all of my mail and try to respond to everything.

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This story and others on Times of E are made possible by a sponsorship from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that provides access to opportunities that help people achieve financial stability, upward mobility, and economic prosperity – regardless of race, gender, or geography. The Kansas City, Mo.-based foundation uses its grantmaking, research, programs, and initiatives to support the start and growth of new businesses, a more prepared workforce, and stronger communities. For more information, visit www.kauffman.org and connect with www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.

Elizabeth Macbride

Elizabeth Macbride

A business journalist for 20 years, am the founder of Times of Entrepreneurship and the co-author of The New Builders.

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