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Training angels: Fledge accelerator founder leads new courses for budding startup investors

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The training is offered through Fledge, a Seattle-based worldwide network of accelerators, investors and mentors focused on supporting entrepreneurs internationally who are creating companies with social missions. Fledge also runs startup accelerators, which attracts applicants internationally. When the U.S.-based

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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

GeekWire

” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies. Libes, who is also an author , additionally operates a nonprofit called Realize Impact that allows people to make philanthropic investments in socially conscious companies. Nine made the cut.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. Tizen’s SDK allows developers to use HTML5 to write applications for an IVI.

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

It is very deep device driver level work in Windows which controls how your files are located across the network and optimized for performance and easy access across a large enterprise.”. Qumulo background: Qumulo was founded in 2012 and reached unicorn status last year. What did you learn from it? “I Lucky people work really hard.”.

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BYOD required for retention? Bollocks!!! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

by Brian Katz on May 30, 2012 · 6 comments. Nonprofit HR. Next post: Network, We don’t need no stinking network! Tags Applications. ©2011-2012 A Screws Loose. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. BYOD required for retention? Bollocks!!! Pingback: Is BYOD a retention program?Nonprofit Enablement.

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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

Vox

If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024,” the research, which hasn’t previously been reported, says. Employees David Pace, left, and Leroy Morgan load a truck with boxes to be shipped at the Amazon distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2012.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

Only this summer did Amazon finally name its first Black leader to the S-team: Alicia Boler Davis, a vice president who runs the company’s warehouse network worldwide. Former VP at General Motors, Alicia Boler-Davis, far right, attends President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2012. Win McNamee/Getty Images.