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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

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno. And we do that via apprenticeship.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. Our response has been very favorable and we’ve expanded into Ohio and Connecticut in addition to launching a related site for comparison shopping for residential natural gas.