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Entrepreneurship
- Why EIR’s Have a Tough Time Finding a Company to Start
- Mindsets for Thinking about Innovation In — and Competition from — China
- How Much Do Startup Accelerators Help Cities?
- An Open Letter To My CEO — Medium
- Deekit — How to make working remotely feel less remote.
- 12 Things I Learned From Marc Andreessen
- Within 10 Years, the Number of Accelerator Programs in the U.S. Has Increased Tenfold
- Brad Feld on assessing founders, investment themes and reading superpowers
- The First Four Things You Should Do Every Workday
- 6 Out-of-the Box Relaxation Techniques for Entrepreneurs
- Why breathing isn’t so easy for a CEO. — Medium
- This Is How You Identify A-Players (In About 10 Minutes) During An Interview — Medium
- How to get hired at a startup when you don’t know anyone
- 34 Questions to Ask a Potential Co-Founder
Investor/Venture Capital
- Four Basic — but Vital — Legal Things You Should Know Before Raising Venture Capital
- What is considered a good ROI in VC?
- Tips from top investors: How startups can succeed in an uncertain economy
- The Full Dataset on What VCs are Thinking About Funding in 2016
- For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins
- Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive
- Around The World In Series A’s
- Dear Investors: So You Want to Take Diversity Seriously (Part 1)
- How to (Possibly) Get a Job in Venture Capital — Medium
- This is the ‘great reset’ in tech valuations, says Accel’s Rich Wong
- It’s My First Day at First Round — Medium
- Arielle Zuckerberg On Her First Six Months In VC At KPCB
Diversity and Inclusion In Tech
- Couple crumble barriers for women, minorities in Silicon Valley
- “Say ‘reverse racism’ one more motherfucking time. I dare you…” — Medium
- Solving The H-1B Visa Problem
- Blerds Unite: Black Tech Week Makes Big Splash In Miami
- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Advice for Women in Tech
- New Scholarship Opportunity: DC Blockchain Summit
- How Startups In Hypergrowth Mode Can Tackle Diversity Before It’s A Problem
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- B.C.’s 35 most influential women: the full list
- Mark Dean designed the first IBM PC while breaking racial barriers
- Dear Investors: So You Want to Take Diversity Seriously (Part 1)
- Does a VC’s unconscious hesitation to fund women start at home?
- Huge study finds that companies with more women leaders are more profitable
- Black, Female Funding Stories
- Are You a Woman Looking for a Job in Tech? Don’t Remind Your Potential Boss of His Crazy-Eyed Ex — Startup Medicine — Medium
- VCs- don’t compare me to your wife, just don’t — Life Tips. — Medium
- “Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech
- Why do we hold Black Tech Week in Miami?
Startup
- The five things this angel investor looks for in a startup
- This Googler works more than 100 hours a week at her ‘dream job’
- Zero to IPO: Lessons From The Unlikely Story of HubSpot
- HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program
- 6 Steps to Build a Culture of Accountability
- Sex & Startups — Medium
- Mental health in startups — Medium
- Startup Advice I’ve Given On Snapchat
- How Much Do Startup Accelerators Help Cities?
- 27 lessons learnt growing from zero to 3.5 million sessions per month
- Why equity matters more than you might think
- How Much Funding to Raise in Each Round
- Accelerating growth: Startup accelerator programs in the United States
- Building A Startup Doesn’t Make You Special. — Life Learning — Medium
- My investors want an “update.” What exactly should I include? — Medium
- Learning the Moves of Successful Startups
- Dare to make your startup Legendary — Austin Startups — Medium
- Operating Partner, DFJ
- Let’s Get Real About Startups And Mental Health
- Surviving Whatever Comes Next
- What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs | Reid Hoffman | LinkedI
- VC Firm Social Capital Opens Up Its ‘Magic 8-Ball’ Growth And Data Tools For Any Startup To Use
- Three Alternatives To Venture Capital
Design
- UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry
- Best of 2015: 100 Resources for Web Developers
- An open letter to newbie designers
- Reimagine your core product
- 20 Free Payment Method & Credit Card Icon Sets
- How to usability test your site for free
- Why you need design
Tech
- What’s Next in Computing? — Medium
- How Silicon Valley Works: the quick version
- 155 Ways You Can Help Alleviate Poverty in the Bay Area — Medium
- Why AngelList Matters More Than LinkedIn to Tech Startups
- How Denver Became an Unexpected Startup Mecca
- SF Targets Social Issues with the Startup in Residence Project
- How People Learn to Become Resilient
- Her Code Got Humans on the Moon — And Invented Software Itself
- The Most Innovative Companies of 2016
- Global profits at stake as Apple, tech fight U.S. on security
- Deserve is a Toxic Word
- The 25 hottest San Francisco startups to watch in 2016
- Even in Boom Time, Silicon Valley Lost Some Jobs Last Year
- Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data
- 5 Great Invisible Apps — Medium
- Mark Luckie Joins Reddit As Head of Journalism and Media
- How To Create, Setup, & Grow a Highly Engaged Community With Slack — Hamster Pad Magazine — Medium
- Creating a Computer Voice That People Like
- NASA dives deeper into how it’s really using HoloLens
Upcoming Diversity/Inclusion Partners Tech Events
- Have questions about Diversity and Inclusion in the Tech Industry: Engineering Empathy Info Session? Contact Dev Bootcamp
- Tech EQuity Week
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- Global Conference
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- The Ability In Tech Summit | Career Fair & Technology Showcase
- CONNECT 2016 Seattle