Diversity

04 Oct

For African-American female entrepreneurs, funding challenges call for creative bootstrapping

The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour’s April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes and gotten resourceful to launch their ventures. JUDY WOODRUFF: Nearly a decade after...

11:27 / Diversity

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03 Oct

Black engineers in Silicon Valley get big assist by Jessica Guynn

SAN FRANCISCO — Ime Archibong was eating lunch on Facebook's Silicon Valley campus with former colleague Makinde Adeagbo last year when Adeagbo pitched the idea for /dev/color, a nonprofit organization to bring together and grow the ranks of African-American software developers. "We sat outside, right in...

15:38 / Diversity

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03 Oct

Inside the pioneering Seattle area school that’s shaking up how STEM education is taught by Lisa Stiffler

From the outside, TAF Academy is not much to look at. Housed in a series of bland, portable classrooms — tucked like an afterthought between a middle school and elementary school just east of Interstate 5 and some 20 miles south of Seattle — the school...

11:35 / Diversity

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30 Sep

Why Ace Callwood says the rules of fintech are made to be broken by Anthony Noto

As the U.S. "gig economy" expands, millions of 1099 workers out there are still frustrated by the challenges they face during tax season as they figure out what they owe and what's owed them. No more, says Ace Callwood. The 25 year-old CEO and 2016 Upstart...

12:21 / Diversity

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29 Sep

Tyra Banks on startup investing and her new TV show by Katie Roof

Tyra Banks rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco this afternoon. The supermodel turned entrepreneur and startup investor was there to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of Tyra Beauty. Tyra Beauty is both “beauty business and badassery,” Banks quipped...

12:42 / Diversity

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