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Tech, Education, and Making a Difference in South Africa: Meet Justinus Adriaanse

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Nelson Mandela’s 1999 retirement brought these injustices further to the forefront, unveiling the deep-rooted inequalities within South Africa’s education system and society as a whole. That summer, he completed a three-month software development bootcamp in Chicago called Starter League.

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21 Facts and Statistics from 2015 Research Reports

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Here are 21 noteworthy facts and statistics from this year: Statistics from “ 2015 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity, National Trends “: 1. The Kauffman Foundation’s Startup Activity Index rose in 2015—reversing a downward trend that started in 2010—experiencing the largest year-over-year increase from the past two decades.

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code. video chat API service.

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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

I moved back to El Salvador and started working toward my own dream at the end of 2015 with Masshii and started inspiring others to do the same. Masshii’s objective is to create opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador who have little or no opportunity for proper education, training, or jobs. What is the mission of Masshii? .

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Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

million in funding since it was founded in 2015. Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch. Existing investors Expa and NEA joined in on the round, which gives the San Francisco-based company a total of $42.5

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October's Foundation Volunteer of the Month: Steve Baggott

Angel Capital Association

Steve joined QCA in 2015, where he chairs QCA’s marketing committee and co-leads the group’s “Ascent” membership program. He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees. and Western Europe.

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Meet the man empowering young leaders by starting with their computer repairs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

On top of his demanding work of technology repairs, Janeel has made the time to discover new ways to help others as a radio personality and program director at Dominion Radio since 2015 with his program IT Talks. Why do you think it is important to educate the community about technology? . IT is everything. government.