I literally cringed while visiting blackstartup.com, otherwise known as "Kickstarter for the black community" For two reasons: 1) A crowdfunding site, (by defa

I literally cringed while visiting blackstartup.com, otherwise known as "Kickstarter for the black community" For two reasons: 1) A crowdfunding site, (by default), requires as large of a crowd as possible to give each project the best opportunity to get funded. Creating a niche site ostensibly based on race discourages the other 90% of the US population from participating, thus inherently undermining the site's usefulness. 2) The site suffers from poor design and doesn't appear to be well thought-out. I spent 5 mins on Themeforest and found 5 themes that are blowing away the template the founders used for blackstartup.com. If the site was going to be done in the name of "blackness" perhaps us blacks should bond together to form some sort of Black UX/UI Commission to properly vet these types of sites so that they don't act as such a poor representative of us as blacks as a whole. Clearly I jest, but this type of divisiveness and exclusionary mentality is the exact reason why minorities, (and specifically blacks), find themselves on the outside looking in when it comes to the tech/startup community.