# Prof. Deepak Hegde's research on venture capitalists is featured

1 Faculty News April 17, 2014 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/blind-spot-vc-and-minority-business) -- “'Startups tend to come from multiple communities,' [Hegde](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/deepak-hegde) says. 'A venture capitalist that has a diversity of partners in its ranks might be in a better position to identify these opportunities and evaluate them better.'”

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Additional coverage appeared on [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/mid-day-update/podcast-international-business-and-ukraine).