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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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Apple is opening a store in downtown LA’s nearly 100-year-old Tower Theatre

TechCrunch LA

The theater has actually been largely unoccupied since 1988, which clearly meant even more work had to go into shining up the walls and making the grand old theater presentable for that modern retail vibe — not to mention a seismic upgrade to help make it more earthquake proof. Image Credits: Apple. local time on Thursday, June 24.

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Techstars LA Debuts First Class Of Startups

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The startups presented both to a group of venture and angel investors in the morning, as well as to a theater packed with a broader audience of mentors, startups, and community groups in the afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

Speaking of time: They were smarter about allocating enough tick-tock for each phase of the process leading up to their final presentation. This time, they made sure to include all of their pertinent analysis in their presentation. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Howard is currently the CEO of Gamzee, a social games company that makes game that play everywhere written in HTML5. Dan an experienced entrepreneur and veteran senior executive of several venture-backed digital businesses.

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5 Ways To Make It Easier To Do What Matters At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. In addition, he has often stated that his first priority is serving his employees and his extended business family, through coaching, mentoring, and effective communication. Lift: propagate your strength by teaching others.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. Sometimes, it's just content presented online. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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