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SXSW Startups: GoTech Puts Out Fires

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2018 From all around the world, 50 diverse startups will come together to compete at the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. GoTech is based in the DRC and Rwanda.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Here's my conversation with Tomas Pueyo. Look, first of all, in these conversations, the number of times that the story begins on Twitter is remarkable. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. On my trip to Rwanda last year I wrote a blog post on why I thought diversity in general was important.