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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

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Bouncing around the country, went to school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. It went from selling things at a flea market, to picking up some side jobs, building websites, to sort of accidentally accepting a challenge to start a nonprofit in the coding competition. Software development.

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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!