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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

GeekWire

CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. It also enforces objective-based milestones and checkpoints; if a company is not meeting certain standards, they are booted out.

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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

For IT organizations looking to make a difference on gender diversity, or for women seeking to develop rich IT careers, several nonprofits have been created to empower and uplift those who identify as women in IT, improving gender diversity in the industry, and closing the pay gap between men and women. Here are three of note.

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OneBusAway needs ‘influx of cash’ to hire dedicated developer and keep popular transit app running

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In a post last week on the Seattle Transit Blog, OBA co-creator Kari Watkins wrote that the non-profit Open Software Transit Foundation, created to maintain the project, needs “an influx of cash.” OneBusAway was started by then-University of Washington PhD students Watkins and Brian Ferris in 2008.

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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests

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A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19 testing. Audere is building software for administering rapid result COVID tests that can be integrated into products being developed by U.S. Audere Photo).

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer.

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Salesforce certification guide: Roles, paths, exams, cost, training, requirements

CIO Business Intelligence

Benefits of Salesforce certifications Salesforce jobs range from the technical (architects, developers, implementation experts) to those related to marketing and sales. According to a study by Indeed.com , 70% of Salesforce developers in the US are satisfied with their salaries given the cost of living in their area.