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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

A “who’s who” list of Silicon Valley leaders moving to ATX This shift did not happen overnight?—?it Capital Factory has an early investor in many of the most successful startups in Texas over the past decade including Aceable , AlertMedia , BigCommerce , Coder , data.world , ICON , Spredfast , Storable , WP Engine and ZenBusiness.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. The difference between startups powered by Customer Development and those built the “old way” was on full display.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. The difference between startups powered by Customer Development and those built the “old way” was on full display.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. Hackers’ Guide to Silicon Valley.