Interesting there is similarity with research looking at the push and pull factors andbarriers to employment influencing business start-up and ownership in minority ethniccommunities and the indication that many similar factors may apply in mainstreambusiness communities. Business and personal history, especially issues that surroundbusiness take over and the role of the venture capitalists, are key here and demonstrateboth a substantial area of past business learning within diverse networks and adetermination within the family to avoid past mistakes made within one business but,crucially, with the learning transferred to subsequent businesses via family ‘memory’