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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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Fresno State Student Entrepreneur Goes to White House

Campus Entrepreneurship

Mike Pronovost, a business student at Fresno State was at the White House last week with 100 young entrepreneurs. As the CEO of Pronovost Technologies, he has moved on from Powerband, which is currently undergoing a buyout, to other projects. via The Collegian ยป Fresno State student entrepreneur invited to the White House.

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My Report on StackOverflow DevDays

Software By Rob

Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood are hosting this series of one-day conferences as a way to get alpha-geeks out of the office to hear experts talk about new technologies ranging from Python to ASP.NET MVC. Re-connecting I work from home and since I live in Fresno I don’t get out much.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

The technical side would be easy – I am a Navy veteran who worked in electronics technology. Thanks to Jeff and Deadrea Clemmensen, MiPhone Doctor of Fresno ! #18 It was a huge decision for us to leave our corporate jobs and we had a lot of worries: what if it doesn’t work, what if we fail, what if we go broke?