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New Web Developers Debut at Codeup’s Demo Day

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News For three months Josee Farmer drove daily from North Austin to San Antonio to learn how to become a web developer at Codeup. “It It was totally worth it,” Farmer said. San Antonio'

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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

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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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! Technology has helped close the information and resource gap for many vulnerable people, and I wanted to be a part of this revolution. That was my aha moment!