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?TheAccess No. 07 – Weekly Top Articles On Diversity In Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Investor News

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By Wayne Sutton Diversity News TheAccess February 14, 2016

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Entrepreneurship

Formal for Entrepreneurial Success

How I Became A Morning Person, Read More Books, And Learned A Language In A Year

Understand Your Compensation

How We Built a Tech Startup Without Tech — The Compass Blog — Medium

Five things I will do different for my next startup — Life Tips. — Medium

How to build a press list that gets you coverage — The Startup — Medium

10 Ways to Fund Your Small Business

11 Signs You Have the Grit You Need to Succeed

How to run a fantasy stock portfolio with friends leveraging Google Finance and Sheets — Medium

Why Quantity Should be Your Priority

Be a Doer, Not a Viewer — Medium

4 Ways Your Startup Can Make a Lasting Impression

Becoming a Social Entrepreneur (accidentally, of course) — Medium

Why The Heck Can’t We Change Our Product? — Learning By Shipping — Medium

How This Man Made the Leap From Artist to Entrepreneur

I Do (and I Don’t) Agree with Zuckerberg’s Statement About Entrepreneurs and Sacrifice — Medium

Why non-technical entrepreneurs should prototype more — Programming for everybody — Medium

We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

Investor/VC

‘The Great Reset’: Venture capitalists and startups have shifted from greed to fear

Does a VC’s unconscious hesitation to fund women start at home?

Lessons from Interviews of Pre-Eminent VCs in 2000

VCs Get Called Out By Small Business Administration Leader

Venture capitalists who see riches in diversity

Silicon Valley’s $585 Billion Problem

10 Growing Trends In Venture Capital for 2016

The Terms Behind Unicorn Valuations

Who Is A VC?

Why Category Leaders Win — Medium

Venture Capital Unlocked (Stanford) / Venture Capital 2.0

Investing Notes From The Upfront Summit (2016) – Haywire

The Pre-Cognitive Anti-Trust Violation:How the decimation of the IPO market has hurt the economy and worse

The Resetting of the Startup Industry

AngelList Raised $163M For Startups in 2015, Up 56% Year-Over-Year

Dealing With Generational Change at VC Firms

Monique Woodard joins 500 Startups as first black partner

Diversity and Inclusion In Tech

The Future Of Black Tech Leaders – 2/15 NY Panel with AOL BUILD

The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

It’s True, Black Female Founders Receive Basically Zero Venture Capital

Design Thinking + Life Strategy for Youth in Oakland — Medium

70 years ago, six Philly women became the world’s first digital computer programmers

Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender

Announcing a Powerful New Partnership in Tech: Tech Inclusion & Google For Entrepreneurs

Google For Entrepreneurs Backs Diversity Organization Tech Inclusion

Why Do We Need More Women Entrepreneurs?

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Treat Race and Gender Separately

Accenture diversity report is actually better than most tech firms

Troy Carter: Tech should train minority talent like NBA players and start young

International Day of Women and Girls in Science11 February

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Fairygodboss offers women a site to review, rate companies’ female policies

Study: Firms with More Women in the C-Suite Are More Profitable

A Social Scientist’s Guide to Diversity Strategy — Multi Forum — Medium

When It Comes to Diversity in Tech, Silicon Valley Isn’t Leading

Quinnexperienced : Why I Just Dropped The Harassment Charges The Man…

What You’re Really Saying When You Talk About Lowering the Bar in Hiring — Medium

4 WoC engineers accept the ‘Fastest Rising Startup’ award for Slack

Why Women Are the Best Opportunity for Businesses

Study explores how black men find success in college

10 Women in Tech to Watch in 2016

13 leaders aiming to increase African Americans in tech

Diversity in tech: Wayne Sutton

It’s Time to Innovate Inclusion… The #ProjectDiane Report is Here — The digitalundivided — Medium

Formation doesn’t include me— and that’s just fine. — The Cauldron — Medium

Meet the Women Changing the Face of Tech

Companies Where More Women Lead Are More Profitable, a New Report Says

Startup

What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

3 Questions for Startups to Answer for Themselves in a Volatile Fundraising Environment

The Downward Pressure of Public Markets on Startup Valuations

The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

What Investors Look for in Startups & Founders — Medium

VC Firm Social Capital Opens Up Its ‘Magic 8-Ball’ Growth And Data Tools For Any Startup To Use

4 WoC engineers accept the ‘Fastest Rising Startup’ award for Slack

Why Your Startup Hasn’t Gotten Funded. — VentureFund io — Medium

The #StartUp Cult: The 12 Different Kinds of Entrepreneurs

When to hand over the reins — Medium

Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

The Four Tenets of Bootstrapping a Tech Startup

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Why The Heck Can’t We Change Our Product? — Learning By Shipping — Medium

5 reasons your startup isn’t attracting investors

500 Startups’ Marvin Liao – ‘I don’t invest in PowerPoint start-ups’

Design

The Next Big Thing in Design — IDEO Stories — Medium

42 Essential User Onboarding Tools to Drive Your App’s Growth

Don’t design for mobile, design for mobility

Get over yourself: collaboration is the secret to great products

Designers shouldn’t code. They should study business. — Medium

75+ Awesome Tools for Designers — Medium

Design trends: Flat Design 2.0

Tech

The Rise and Fall of the Unicorn

Putting out the Twitter trashfire — Medium

‘The Great Reset’: Venture capitalists and startups have shifted from greed to fear

True Micropayments with Bitcoin — Medium

3 Tips for Non-Techies to Get Tech Entrepreneur Skills

How People Learn to Become Resilient

Amani al-Khatahtbeh: ‘It’s transformative to have Muslim women in the tech world’

$9 Computer Designed In Oakland Makes Waves

Introducing Hacker Fund

Internet Access is Permanently Tax Free. Finally. — Medium

Toggl – Free Time Tracking Software

When the going gets tough, the tough get going – AVC

Charles Holloway: How to Create an Impactful Company

10 Growing Trends In Venture Capital for 2016

How to run a fantasy stock portfolio with friends leveraging Google Finance and Sheets — Medium

The Real Deal with Virtual and Augmented Reality

Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad resigns, COO David Sacks takes over

The Tech Already Exists for Brain-Machine AI Interfaces — Humanizing Technology — Medium

Four Lessons I’ve Learned Working With An Elite Startup Accelerator

Upcoming Tech Events

The Future Of Black Tech Leaders – 2/15 NY Panel with AOL BUILD

Wells Fargo and Hispanicize 2016 Collaborate to Launch ‘The Latino Perfect Pitch’ Small Business Competition

Hack Housing Oakland

blacktechweek.com

Inclusion 2.0 Summit

Celebrating Black Excellence & Achievement | Facebook

Lesbians Who Tech

Global Conference

Tech Inclusion: Austin

The Ability In Tech Summit | Career Fair & Technology Showcase

CONNECT 2016 Seattle

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Wayne Sutton / About Author

Wayne Sutton is a serial entrepreneur. Wayne has over 10 years experience in technology, design/UX/UI and business development. Wayne has been recognized as one of the Silicon Valley 100 coolest people in tech, one of the 52 hottest new stars in Silicon Valley, one of the 46 Most Important African-Americans In Technology by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 most influential black people on social media .

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