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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.

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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Traditionally, business software products have been specialized and focused toward a given task, but I see a trend these days to highly functional “all-in-one” business tools.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. It has some similarities with Brizzly in this regard.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation. 25 Years of Writing Code. and Schlumberger.

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MapMyFitness | Keeping an Eye on Health

Tech Zulu Event

Another service is available called “MVP” and gives users more advanced maps options and additional features such as heart rate analysis, route genius, mobile coaching, and in-app camera to name a few. MapMyFitness integrates social media into its app. The MVP option goes at a rate of $5.99/month month or $29.99/year.