We Don’t Need Permission: How black business can change our world

A powerful guide to successful, transformative entrepreneurship for the under-represented.

At a time when half of Black households in the UK live in persistent poverty - over twice as many as their white counterparts - We Don’t Need Permission argues that investing in under-represented entrepreneurs in order to create successful businesses is the surest socio-economic game-changer. Durable empowerment - from education to health outcomes - is key to solving the multiple problems resulting from systemic racism and sexism. It is the best way to close the inequality gaps that continue to hinder Black people and all women too. Addressing this problem head on, Eric Collins co-founded venture capital firm Impact X Capital to invest in under-represented entrepreneurs in the UK and Europe. In We Don’t Need Permission, Collins identifies ten key principles of successful entrepreneurship, and reveals how it’s possible to change a system that helps some, while holding others back. The book not only aims to inspire and motivate under-represented people to take their future and economic destiny into their own hands, but demands of current business leaders and organizations that they do business better. Stop waiting for someone else to give permission, Collins tells us, and start boldly making the world we want to see.