This article should be required reading!

The article below by Ricky Yean in Business Insider should be required reading - by those who engage with entrepreneurs - incubators, angel investors, venture firms, et al. I found it truly inspiring but, more importantly, a great guide to understand several budding entrepreneurs I have come to know who get "thrown in" with a mixed bunch with whom they can hardly begin to relate to.

The disconnect owing to economic background, language, culture, etc has costs that can derail one's dreams and aspirations. One of the most important things that incubators and accelerators could do, perhaps, is to provide cultural orientation programs that ease assimilation, adaptation, and understanding of business-cultural cues. Those born with a silver spoon have these built-in but even middle class first time entrepreneurs are able to master them in short time because so many of the assumptions are already inherent - such as felicity with English, family and friends, ability to identify with groups, etc. Success with a startup should not be merely one of emphasizing product, customer, and market. Behind all this is the founder whose handicaps are often seriously debilitating factors as Ricky shows with aplomb.

https://www.businessinsider.com/privilege-inequality-silicon-valley-2016-1?IR=T