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How to Maximize Time During A Bootcamp So You Leave With A Job

If you’re getting ready to start a bootcamp course, congratulations! You’re making a giant leap into a new and exciting career in tech. But with all the time and money that goes into attending an intensive coding course, you’ll want to make sure you’re making the

How to Build a Security Culture Within Your Company

How to Build a Security Culture Within Your Company

Building a work culture, from employee expectation to benefits, can be essential to moving the company's mission forward. And now, with increasing security threats, it's important to focus on building a 'security culture' within your team as well, says Nick Santora, CEO of cybersecurity

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What Tech Bootcamp Style Is Your Speed?

Technology jobs get a lot of love from the media as the fastest-growing, best-paid careers. But before you quit your current career path and jump into the unknown, Annette Doskow, VP of Admissions at Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp in the U.S. and London, advises taking the time to

Here's How to Land An Angel — Investor, That Is

Here's How to Land An Angel — Investor, That Is

If you're currently bootstrapped with a viable prototype, maybe with some money from friends and family, finding an angel investor to go to market or launch a beta may be your next step. An angel investor is an individual that formerly experienced a liquidity event and is re-investing

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Teaching Entrepreneurship, Coding Skills May Be the Way Out Of the Prison Cycle

The United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world — in a country that holds about 5 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of the world’s inmates. And unfortunately, while the instant search of the digital age has made most people’s lives easier,

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You're Trying to Land A Tech Job — Here's How to Build Your Network First

There are many reasons to look at a career in tech right now. These range from more open jobs — demand is off-the-charts high in cybersecurity, data science, engineering and others — to more money and opportunities for creative problem solving. But if you’re coming from another industry, entering the field

Here Are the Benefits Tech Employees Actually Care About (Hint: It's Not Free Snacks)

Here Are the Benefits Tech Employees Actually Care About (Hint: It's Not Free Snacks)

There’s a pretty clear picture that can be painted when you hear the words “tech company perks”: one of free and plentiful granola bars and sparkling water in the kitchen, standing (or cycling) desks, and the requisite grouping of bean bag chairs situated next to a ping-pong or air