Silicon Valley Boot Camp Aims To Boost Diversity
If there is a founding ethos in the world of high-tech startups, it’s this: The idea is everything. Facebook’s initial public offering might have seemed like the perfect illustration. A simple concept, conceived by a college student, became a $100 billion empire in just 8 years. But if you look around California’s Silicon Valley, ideas [...]
Read MoreThe Hottest Tech Cities for Employment
Tech boom? That must be focused in the Valley, right? Or at least, you would expect that any such rapid expansion would have the largest impact in that region. However, a new study by the Praxis Strategy Group has outlined a number of critical facts that bust that specific narrative. Among the highlights: In the Vally, tech employment is [...]
Read MoreNewME Community Rolls Out New Perks, Launches Online Classes
NewME Community announced a cool perk today, online classes! NewME community members will have exclusive access to the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s Entrepreneurs College. Classes in the Entreprenuer’s College will help entrepreneurs get started as a business from initial idea to exit. These courses are part of NewME Intel where they will provide resources, [...]
Read MoreSilicon Valley’s New Conversation on Diversity
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Silicon Valley’s startup field is dominated by young, mostly white men from a handful of elite universities. NewMe, an accelerator program for minority-led ventures, aims to shake up the scene. Three months after CNN’s Black in America 4 aired, chronicling the stories of NewMe’s first class, several of the documentary’s participants reconvened at last week’s [...]
Read MoreWhy Minority Students Should Apply to 2012 Online News Association Conference Student Newsroom
The Online News Association Conference (ONA) is back and currently accepting applications for its Student Newsroom program that will take place in San Francisco, Calif. Sept. 20-22. The student newsroom is an opportunity for college students to cover the conference and create digital content for the ONA Web site. But what’s even better is that [...]
Read MoreVideo: Take a Tour of the NewME House
The NewME Accelerator starts today with the founders are arriving at the start-up house. As the program kicks off we wanted to give everyone a brief walk through of the house to show how the founders will be living and working.
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