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StartupLab launches to coach America’s next generation of entrepreneurs

The Next Web

These include Junior Achievement, Georgetown University, BizWorld, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Startup Weekend, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and many more. The Young Entrepreneur Council may be familiar to you if you’re a regular TNW reader. Image credit: Pond 5.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: The Generational Divide (Panel Discussion)

Amy Sample Ward

David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. But finding a mentor and a champion, we were able to make things happen. Moderated by Kari Dunn, Case Foundation.

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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team’s hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. After two and a half years of mentoring on nights and weekends, Novati decided to turn her passion into a career. She and her husband, Michael, founded Formation with a couple of goals in mind.

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Teacher Well-Being: Beyond Yoga and Pizza Parties

sgEngage

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. Do adjunct professors at your institution have the flexibility to teach remotely on days when their personal life would dictate it?

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity. Another company supported in the beginning with mentoring by Vale do Dendê is Diaspora Black (which focuses on Black culture in the tourism sectors). Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom.

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

I also teach students, residents and fellows and hold joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor. The result was a reduction in our readmission rates to one of the best in the country and we have been invited to present this work at national cardiology conferences.

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The Three Pillars Of Executive Presence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Hewlett is also a big believer in the power and value of having a sponsor , and explains that sponsors are not mentors. Because sponsors have a vested interest in how you turn out (your reputation now being linked with their own), they will give you the kind of feedback that mentors can't or won't," says Hewlett.