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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

The paid, bootcamp-style apprenticeship trains local young adults 18–25 in coding skills, professional development and connects graduates with full-time jobs with premier employers like Red Ventures ?—?with The expansion builds on the significant success Road to Hire has had in Charlotte since its founding in 2016.

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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. In our final year of school we decided to start a website development company, which we named NBN Designs (Nothing But Net), for no other reason than UNC-Charlotte had a great basketball team at the time.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Our mission at TTS is to develop more tech talent in the South through beginner-focused programs teaching web development and computer programming. Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. Who are you and what do you do? We already have!

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I answered 9 successful CEO’s favorite interview questions

Jeff Hilimire

In late 2012 when I was midway through my year with Leadership Atlanta. In late 2012 I took over the business development and marketing (i.e. Jenny Ming, CEO of Charlotte Russe. I created three core tenets for the business development and marketing team, helping give us structure and purpose. Marc Barros, CEO of Contour.

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My first business partner, Raj Choudhury

Jeff Hilimire

I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. I can ensure you that he had more fun in his one semester at UNC-Charlotte than I did during my entire time. It was decided that I would step into that role while Raj focused on operations and creative and Danny focused on development. But we became instant friends.

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U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days

allthingsd.com

Trending – Baird: RIM Is Bleeding Developers. Coca-Cola - Atlanta, GA. Robert Half Technology - Charlotte, NC. AllThingsD. Enterprise. Conferences. View by Writer. Follow on Twitter » Subscribe on Facebook » Like on Facebook » Get the Daily Newsletter ». Liz Gannes. ethics statement bio e-mail RSS. Follow @LizGannes.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I figured since I had so much experience in starting businesses, why can’t I develop a model to help startups get all of the information they need in one location! Jessica Houston Enterprises is a women’s empowerment business that provides personal and professional development training. That was my aha moment!