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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

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Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020). Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Bitwise was shaping up to have a great 2020. Their programs teach software programming and IT proficiency to people who have historically been excluded from those fields, and connects their graduates with tech companies around the country. It was an incubator. It was a very small incubator in Fresno.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. We're very fortunate that the YCombinator program took us on and is our incubator company, all of that. Eric Ries : When was that? When did you apply to YCombinator? Eric Ries : They reached out to you? Alpha Lee : Yes, yes.