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

TechCrunch LA

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development.

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ServiceNow Ties With Hitachi On Japanese Expansion

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San Diego-based enterprise IT management software developer ServiceNow reported this morning that it is expanding into the Japanese market, via a deal with Hitachi Solutions , a unit of Hitachi Group. Hitachi Solutions will provide implementation, training and first-level support for Japanese customers for ServiceNow.

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10 Remote Staffing Blunders That Will Cost You Dearly

Startup Professionals Musings

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Adapting to culture goes both ways, and training is the key. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.”

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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Five Startups Revolutionizing Music, In Southern California

socalTECH

intersection of technology and music. All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. The firm's apps are revolutionizing sheet music, applying modern technology to what has--until recently--been stuck in the era of pencil and paper.

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10 Outside Staffing Quotes True Entrepreneurs Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Adapting to culture goes both ways, and training is the key. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.”

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.