Video: Mitch Kapor on the value of the NewMe Accelerator and what Kapor Capital looks for in startups
The NewMe Accelerator just completed it’s first full week of working with amazing mentors and speakers from the Silicon Valley. Closing out the week NewMe startups had a chance sit down for one on one sessions with well known Venture Capitalist Mitch Kapor @mkapor of Kapor Capital. Before the sessions begin Mitch talked to the [...]
Read MoreSilicon Valley Welcomes First of its Kind Minority Accelerator
Silicon Valley welcomed the first ever technology accelerator for minority-led start-ups, NewME Accelerator. NewME’s select participants commenced their first class on June 16 and will participate in this program throughout the summer. The start-up founders are based in a shared house in Mountain View, Calif. and are utilizing co-working space at Citizen Space in San [...]
Read MoreKeen Interviews David Sutphen on Obama’s Technology Policy
Today, Andrew Keen interviewed Bruce Mehlman’s co-chair at the Internet Innovation Alliance, David Sutphen. Sutphen is a “one-time General Council to Senator Ted Kennedy and a prominent Democratic activist both in technology policy and civil rights.” Keen says of Sutphen: It is no coincidence that Sutphen’s interests span both technology and civil rights. For him, [...]
Read MoreSilicon Valley Meets Black Web 2.0
This past week was a whirlwind! Aside from speaking with the Black Googler Network which was super exciting in and of itself our meet-up had even more in store for us. The Black Googler Network Speaking to these inviduals was beyond great. I had the opportunity to meet several people from various aspects of the [...]
Read MoreSurprise! Silicon Valley Doesn’t Employ Minorities
Research Mercury News put out a couple weeks ago regarding the lack of minorities in Silicon Valley has sent a ripple through the tech community. To give you a brief overview it generally outlines statistics that we all pretty much know: Lack of entrepreneurship by minorities in Silicon Valley and the lack of minority employees [...]
Read MoreThe Not-So Inclusive Web and Network Failure
Dawn Douglass recently asked the question, “How can the Web truly be “open” when only young white male geeks get to decide what the Web is?” I spend a lot of time thinking about technology. Every morning the first thing I do is pop open my feedreader to read all the incoming articles from all [...]
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