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?TheAccess No. 09 – Weekly Top Articles On Entrepreneurship, Diversity In Tech and Investor Thought Leadership

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By Wayne Sutton Diversity News TheAccess February 28, 2016

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Entrepreneurship

The SQUIRE App Makes Booking And Paying For Your Next Haircut Hassle Free

real friends — Medium

You Will Fail. And It’s Okay. — Life Learning — Medium

The Silicon Valley Hustle

Why Entrepreneurship Education Does Not Work | Andrew Yang | LinkedIn

Maintaining Success for the Long Term

What Is Disruptive Innovation?

The Complete Guide to SXSW 2016

What I Wish I Knew Before Techstars

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

The Future of Work Will Be Distributed — Spark Capital Collection — Medium

7 Networks for Latina Professionals or Entrepreneurs

On Firing Myself and Ending the Empire of One — Medium

How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

Investor/VC

What Is A Lead Investor?

For their best portfolio companies, leading VCs are aggressively trying to poach talent from struggling startups. Here’s how.

Investing Millions in Companies Led by Black Men

Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

VCs leave Sand Hill Road, seek out new hot spots in Palo Alto, San Francisco

Heidi Roizen On How To Choose Your VC

Diversity and Inclusion In Tech

The SQUIRE App Makes Booking And Paying For Your Next Haircut Hassle Free

Y Combinator accepts first tech diversity non-profit

[THE UPLOAD] 5 Key Lessons from Black Tech Leaders

Changing the Face of Tech in 2016 and Beyond — /dev/color Blog — Medium

It’s Not “Magic” When Black Females Achieve in Tech, Business, or Anything Else — Medium

Investing Millions in Companies Led by Black Men

What It’s Really Like to Risk It All in Silicon Valley

Just 4% of Female-led Startups Are Run by Black Women—I’m One of Them

Facebook introduces Bay Area black students to tech careers

Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanics Into Tech Jobs

At Harvey Mudd College, the Ratio of Women in Computer Science Increased from 10% to 40% in 5 Years — Backchannel — Medium

Women Still Play a Small Role in the Tech Industry. Why?

The Biases That Punish Racially Diverse Teams

The Truth About Black Twitter

Atlanta nonprofit ‘The Black Burdell’ is changing the face of entrepreneurship with a one-of-a-kind scholarship

At Harvey Mudd College, the Ratio of Women in CS Increased from 10% to 40% in 5 Years — Backchannel — Medium

Your commitment to diversity is terrifying — Medium

Apple Holders Reject Proposal to Require Minorities in Top Ranks

Apple directors reelected, outside proposals rejected at annual shareholder meeting

Driving Diversity In Innovation, Technology & Media

Mark Zuckerberg Calls Out ‘Malicious’ Facebook Employees For Crossing Out Black Lives Matter Slogans

Tech: An Opportunity For Black Women and Investors

Why America’s Money Men Won’t Fund Black Female Founders

Meet 28 black Americans under age 28 who are changing the game

Durham Lawyer Reveals What Systematic Racism Looks Like

Apply Now For TechCrunch Include Office Hours With General Catalyst

Intel Invests $1.3 Million In CODE2040

Lessons from #Ilooklikeanengineer — Medium

We didn’t start a movement. We started a network. — Medium

Intersectional Approaches to Diversifying the Tech Sector

Startup

What Is A Lead Investor?

5 Ideas for Prospect List Building

Don’t Sell Your Soul: “Valuation Has No Effect on Your Company,” insists Jason Fried of Basecamp

The Silicon Valley Hustle

4 tips for startup success from Black Tech Week

Start Before You’re Ready — Life Learning — Medium

7 Underrated Websites To Find Amazing Resources For Your Startup — Life Learning — Medium

8 Ways to Prepare Your Startup For Obstacles Ahead

Successful Serial Entrepreneur David S. Rose: The Business Model All Startups Need to Be Using

This Is How You Identify A-Players (In About 10 Minutes) During An Interview — Medium

After The Gold Rush

Black-Owned Business Receives Largest ‘Shark Tank’ Funding in Show’s History

The Best Startup Advice You’ll Ever Receive — Medium

So you’re starting a tech company? Here’s how we hired our first 10 employees. — Medium

How to build an enduring, multi-billion dollar business (hint: create a 10x product + recast incumbent cost structures)

The Most Powerful Lesson I’ve Ever Learned In Business — Medium

Design

Why Bother Making Beautiful Team Pages? + Subtraction.com

Principles of Ethical Web Development

The Reactions

Dealing With Your Ego as a Designer

How to nail a design job interview

The web reacts to Facebook’s Reactions

5 UX Fundamentals of iOS 9

Tech Industry News

The Problem with Innovation — Medium

After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice

Programs seeks entrepreneurs to tackle civic challenges

Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

On to the next one:

Chicago requires high school students to take CS classes

Google Starts Highlighting AMP Pages In Its Mobile Search Results

Stripe Expands Startup Tools With Atlas, For Foreign Companies To Incorporate In Delaware

The Bloomberg Innovation Index

The U.S. has Gone F&*%ing Mad — Medium

A 26-year-old MIT graduate is turning heads over his theory that income inequality is actually… — The Ferenstein Wire — Medium

The Top 75 Slack Communities for Entrepreneurs and Developers — Hamster Pad Magazine — Medium

Mobile, smartphones and hindsight — Benedict Evans

Upcoming Tech Events

Venture Summit | West 2016

GSVlabs IoT Innovation Showcase : Connected Home Tickets, Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1 : 00 PM : Eventbrite

USF Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Conference + Startup Weekend

LAUNCH Festival 2016 – The world’s largest startup event!

Driving Diversity In Innovation, Technology & Media

Apply Now For TechCrunch Include Office Hours With General Catalyst

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Tech Inclusion: Austin

The Ability In Tech Summit | Career Fair & Technology Showcase

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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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