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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. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno. A company headquartered in Fresno, California.

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Why Focusing on Traffic Can Kill Your Startup

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The most common responses will involve search engine optimization, AdWords, blogging, podcasting, and perhaps social media. For every 50 books or blogs on search engine optimization or AdWords there is one on improving conversions. If you can do this dinner is on me when you come to Fresno.