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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

InfoChachkie

Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. Thus, it's hardly surprising that in 2010, women earned only 18% of all computer science degrees.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture

Xconomy

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. Now, her career has come to a close. LN: Right, he came on a sabbatical year.

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

InfoChachkie

Victory usually satisfies, but it seldom educates. Our positioning of GoToAssist as a cost-saving solution resonated with hundreds of enterprise companies that had otherwise “frozen” their technology infrastructure budgets. Watson, IBM Founder. “You can learn very little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.”.

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