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elebrating a “new beginning” with Muslim nations, this week the White House hosted 275 entrepreneurs from over 50 Muslim-majority countries. The purpose of the summit was to reach out to Muslim counterparts with a new collaborative approach.
This is good foreign policy, but what about U.S. entrepreneurs at home? Silicon Valley start-ups, venture capitalists, and U.S. small business owners were noticeably missing from the event. A Lebanese entrepreneur described the new business contacts he had made as all Muslim entrepreneurs. He had hoped to partner with Americans, but few were in the room.
Still, President Obama claimed that “together, we’ve sparked a new era of entrepreneurship” and went on to outline the administration’s plans to launch new exchange programs for Muslim entrepreneurs to come to the United States and for their American counterparts to share best practices overseas.
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Author: Amy Wilkinson
