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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

Wercker : a continuous deployment solution for software developers, hosted in the cloud. Rockstart typicall invests roughly $20,000 in exchange for 8 percent equity in participating startups, also providing six months of free office space and the aforementioned three-week road trip to Silicon Valley.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.