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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio. That, too, is evolving with online engagement.

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7 Tips For Building Millennials Into Next-Gen Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

Today they are in every business, and will likely comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020. As a partially-retired baby-boomer in business, I’ve spent much of the last few years mentoring aspiring millennial entrepreneurs, and I’m always looking for more insights into how to help them. Their success is now vital to our success.

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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most have the technical challenges well understood, but many are a bit short on some basic street smarts , or basic business realities. Start with a range of platforms, including social media, advertising, and a great website.

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How To Mentor Millennials Into Business Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Today they are in every business, and will likely comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020. As a partially-retired baby-boomer in business, I’ve spent much of the last few years mentoring aspiring millennial entrepreneurs, and I’m always looking for more insights into how to help them. Their success is now vital to our success.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Utilize outside expertise and mentoring. No matter how much energy, experience, and passion you have, there is always more you can learn from an Advisory Board of external experts or a mentor. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/22/2020. Your long-term success and satisfaction depends on it.

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Interview with Jo Webber, Pod.io

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We've created a social media platform which helps you meet new people, and we're also very focused on privacy, and don't sell your data, don't spy on you, but provide an environment where you can meet other people based on shared interests and shared locations. Jo Webber: We've done a seed round of $5M, which we raised earlier in 2020.

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5 Actions To Convince Your Boss You Are Accountable

Startup Professionals Musings

I often think of the scope of this example in my role as mentor to a struggling entrepreneur who is quick to blame his problems on employee mistakes, or even changing customer expectations. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/15/2020. Communication must be positive and consistent, both up and down the line.