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Tech Talent: This Junior Programmer Turned A Love for Sudoku Into a Coding Career

Tech Talent: This Junior Programmer Turned A Love for Sudoku Into a Coding Career

Laura Baston is familiar with the customer-facing side of tech. After working in sales at two software companies and a startup, she learned to be quick on her feet when customers encountered problems with applications. Her experience brought curiosity for the other side of tech — building the apps themselves. After

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Why Two Retired Home Depot Executives Became Podcasters To Share Stories of Underdog Non-Profits

“We tell inspiring stories about people who do amazing things for others.” That statement, repeated at the front end of every roughly 20-minute podcast of Crazy Good Turns, is the true heart of the show. What follows on any of the now two dozen episodes is a narrative told in

Want to Be A Venture Investor One Day? With A New University-Focused Firm, These Undergrad VCs Are Doing Deals

Want to Be A Venture Investor One Day? With A New University-Focused Firm, These Undergrad VCs Are Doing Deals

University entrepreneurship programs are picking up steam across the country — more and more students are foregoing corporate careers for startup life in hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg story. But thus far, most university-centered programs have focused on the would-be entrepreneur, not the other side of the startup equation

Tech Talent: Fed by Wanderlust, This Junior Developer Programs Adventure

Tech Talent: Fed by Wanderlust, This Junior Developer Programs Adventure

Susana Barnwell's wanderlust took her across the pond to complete her undergraduate degree in Rome, and it also served as the main inspiration in one of her recent app projects — Adventure Planner. Following a recent trip to Chile, Herrera created an app for extended-stay travelers during her time

Tech Talent: This Philosopher Turned to Coding to Explore Cryptocurrency

Tech Talent: This Philosopher Turned to Coding to Explore Cryptocurrency

Following a stint in the marketing industry, Will Elliott found that his passion for symbolic logic could pair well with his interest in programming. He enrolled in DigitalCrafts full-time 16-week immersive coding bootcamp and, with graduation approaching next month, has used his final project to deepen a focus on cryptocurrency.

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This Former Uber Manager Is Still Disrupting the Transportation Industry As Bellhops CEO

Bellhops started with two recently-graduated college students who were fed up with the complexities of moving multiple times in their early adult years. They employed a contractor worker model (many of the "bellhops" being college students themselves) and focus on small-scale moving, unlike traditional larger operations companies. By

Tech Talent: How This Junior Programmer Successfully Turned 'Spoiled Veggies' Into A Career Journey

Tech Talent: How This Junior Programmer Successfully Turned 'Spoiled Veggies' Into A Career Journey

London Baker's take on the site Rotten Tomatoes — Spoiled Veggies — is sure to make you chuckle, but also impress you. The code bootcamp student employed his new hard-earned skills in Full-Stack and embedded Javascript to build this capstone project. Baker followed his curiosity for all things tech after