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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

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Software Secretaries. In 1952, 100 years after Lovelace’s death, Dr. Grace Hopper developed the first compiler. Software coding was initially considered "woman's work," as it involved typing the commands onto punchcards, which was akin to taking dictation via a typewriter. Did you know the first computer programmer was a woman?

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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For more than 30-years, Bill Gates has been at the pinnacle of the software industry. "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. They also internalize their professional failures while externalizing their team’s successes.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software.

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

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TechZulu recently talked with Harsh Vathsangam , Moving Analytics’ co-founder and Adelanwa Adesanya (Ade), specializing in Business Development and Product Management. Three and a half million people die because of chronic complications developed as a result of sitting too much. You recently conducted a pilot study.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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There have been many studies done on the topic including looking at twins raised in separate families. There have been studies of adopted children to their natural parents versus the parents that raised them. I have also seen studies on “birth order.&#. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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