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Last week, we republished a story on the Heartland Tech section about American Underground, a hub for tech programming in Durham, North Carolina and a partner organization of Google for Entrepreneurs. Phillipe Charles, the director of communications and member experience for American Underground, spoke with author Muriel Vega about the steps American Underground takes to […]
Maci Peterson knows too well the potentially disastrous consequences of sending a text to the wrong person or firing off an email whose meaning gets lost in transit. When autocorrect altered a text she sent to her then boyfriend — and she couldn’t figure out how to retrieve it — she set her sights on […]
Frank Chaparro Thomas Farley has seen countless entrepreneurs walk in and out of the New York Stock Exchange since he assumed his position as head of the iconic Wall Street institution close to four years ago. So he has a pretty keen sense of what it takes to be a successful business leader. The NYSE, […]
Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit, Girls Who Code, says she spends 25 percent of her time mentoring. While many CEOs might think that’s excessive, for Saujani, it makes sense. The organization she founded promotes the importance of mentoring relationships in order to narrow the gender gap in technology. And that’s no […]
As the U.S. becomes acclimated to the reality of a new president, something that’s on the minds of Americans is the changing economic landscape. People are fearful of the impact automation and technology has on their livelihoods — it’s estimated that 5 million jobs could be lost by 2020 because of the “fourth industrial revolution,” according to the 2016 […]
PRESS RELEASE: SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 19, 2017– SitterFriends announced that Mahesh Lingareddy, founder of Soft Machines Inc (now owned by Intel) and founder of Smartron, an OEM and IOT company, joined SitterFriends as investor and advisor. SitterFriends, launching in June, aims to bring innovation to childcare, allowing parents to find help that is trustworthy, and […]
Alex Jasin I’ve had some bad experiences with freelancers. If you’ve worked with freelancers, you know it can be a crapshoot. You post a job, then hope the right person applies. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn’t. After having the process blow up in my face one too many times, I knew I needed […]
Nathan Lee In early February, Daymond John was preparing to launch his latest company, his spin on a coworking space he named Blueprint + co. He’s looking to the future: Going forward, the business could allow the Shark Tank investor to leverage the influence he’s established over the last eight years as a “Shark” long after the […]
The 53-year-old businesswoman spoke about her extraordinary and potentially life-saving skill on today’s edition of Good Morning Britain. Speaking to hosts Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway, she revealed: “I have dyslexia, so when life takes away from you in one way, it gives back in another.” She went on to say: “This can be used […]
GUEST: Dear President Trump: My name is Rami Essaid, and I’m cofounder and CEO of a cybersecurity company. We’re an American firm that helps hundreds of businesses, like Verizon, StubHub, and Glassdoor, block attacks on their websites. We’ve received $ 65 million in funding from some of the top venture capital firms in the country. […]
