She wasn’t met with any encouragement from clients, but she pushed ahead anyway. For years, Vanessa Ogle had headed her tech company Enseo, but it wasn’t until she elbowed aside the middle men and took a leap onto center stage that her company, with just around...
Yes, I want money and advice and a global network for my startup. No, I don’t want to move to Boston. It just makes sense, if you think about it: many entrepreneurs have family and job obligations that would make it difficult for them to sign up for a...
In 3 Not-so-easy (but Totally Reproducible) Steps … Imagine a baby-faced, 14-year-old teenager, obsessed with a virtual pet game (Neopets), taking up freelance design and development projects from people around the world. Nine years later, she runs a...
A Pioneering Bootcamp Closes Its DoorsThe staff and instructors at Dev Bootcamp were deeply saddened last month upon announcing that the school, founded five years ago as one of the first immersive coding schools in the world, was winding down. They will graduate...
Gathering data geeksVivian Zhang founded a data science meetup group in New York City in 2014, where she taught New Yorkers how to analyze the plentiful data available through public records of calls to 311, the city’s non-emergency helpline.“It’s like a pulse check...