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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

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Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer?

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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

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Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer? Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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The New Bottom-Up Economic Revolution

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Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011. Of course, much of the losses in wages and salaries were a result of the recession but the proprietor trend has steadily increased every year since 2000.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

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Rich and award-winning line of location-based applications for the end-users (VAS) • Maps and LBS APIs for developers as a CSP branded developers zone, enabling more apps in portal and increased usage of data, SMS and MMS. Series ORG-2000 is OriginGPS smallest fully featured GPS receiver. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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