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MentorMint offers career mentoring from professionals that have the job you want. It provides an online marketplace connecting students to mentors for career coaching. Meanwhile, Cultivating Coders takes the coding bootcamp to rural, Tribal and unserved urban areas. We also announced that Parihug was the winner of our Readers Choice poll for Tech.Co’s SXSW Startup of the Year. The company offers pairable teddy bears that let you hug someone from anywhere in the world....

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Remember! Apply now to Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year competition, which will give you a chance to join us at Innovate! and Celebrate 2017! Register now and get ready for a fantastic 3-day journey. Here Are This Week’s Tech.Co Top Stories: Need more Tech.Co? Sign up for the Tech.Co newsletter today, and get the weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox. Interested in coming to a Tech.Co event? Check out our Tech....

Remember! Apply now to Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year competition, which will give you a chance to join us at Innovate! and Celebrate 2017! Register now and get ready for a fantastic 3-day journey. Here Are This Week’s Tech.Co Top Stories: Need more Tech.Co? Sign up for the Tech.Co newsletter today, and get the weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox. Interested in coming to a Tech.Co event? Check out our Tech....

Do you read Tech.Co every day? Once every couple of weeks? What kind of content would you like to see? Are we being helpful enough in providing resources for startups and entrepreneurs. Please let us know! Need more Tech.Co? Sign up for the Tech.Co newsletter today, and get the weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox. Here are this week’s Tech.CoTop Stories: Like what you’re reading? Have some great knowledge and think you have what it takes to write some great content for others in the startup or tech space?...

To help them find this new crop of startups, Techstars has gathered some of the leading companies in music to serve as members of the program. The Techstars Music accelerator includes major record labels (Warner Music Group and Sony Music), global artist management and live event companies (QPrime Management, Silva Artist Management, Young Guru’s Era of the Engineer, Bill Silva Entertainment), independent game studios (Harmonix Music Systems), and the creator of the leading whole-home audio system (Sonos)....

This statistic is essentially canon in the startup story. It has been quoted and re-quoted hundreds of thousands of times to discourage bad ideas and inspire great ones. CEOs, business managers, IT guys and janitors have muttered this phrase under their breath, heard it in a conference room or yelled it at a developer. And it turns out: it isn’t even true. The startup failure myth started with a Forbes article from 2013, that plainly stated, eight out of 10 businesses fail within the first 18 months....

Here’s the 10 worst kinds of software developers: 1. The Stack Overflow Bot Software developers that merely copy and paste things from Stack Overflow without understanding the consequences of these quick fixes or applications. 2. The I-Am-Not-a-Tester Those software engineers that don’t take the time or make the effort to test their code simply because it isn’t in their described responsibilities. 3. The I-Hate-Documentation Naik believes that a lack of code documentation impedes the development of sustainable software....

Meanwhile, in Detroit, you have a year’s runway once you’ve saved up $6,600 – less than one-sixth that amount. And people say that cost of living doesn’t matter for a startup scene? It may not be a deciding factor, but cost of living is a measure of the risk you’re taking when you dive in and start a company. Whether it’s better to have more people becoming entrepreneurs or have fewer (but crazier) entrepreneurs is a debate for another day....

NestPick provides Airbnb-like functionality for international students looking for medium- and long-term accommodations. Their top six picks are based on their experience in various cities plus research into the political, cultural, and economic factors affecting the local startup scenes. Let’s take a look at the top 6 European cities for startups: 1. Berlin, Germany Population: 3.5 million On AngelList: 848 Berlin startups, 5,392 Berlin angel investors Berlin Startup Success stories: SoundCloud, Wooga, Zalando A McKinsey report quoted by NestPick estimates that Berlin startups will create over 100,000 jobs by 2020....

We are in the midst of a social food revolution, with loads of new food-related apps and services available online and for mobile devices. It makes sense because other than breathing and sleeping, eating is one of the essentials of life. And in the Western world, it’s a major part of how we socialize and celebrate. Let’s take a look at some of the social food apps, sites, and services now on the market – no matter what your cooking orientation....

But how do you eliminate something so ubiquitous? For Gordon and the team at The Bureau, it all boils down to branding. Together with his team, Gordon has developed a strict plan that will help them fulfill this mission. He’s already actively engaged with investors, seeking to raise the next round of capital to continue doing custom packaging for dispensaries. I sat down with Gordon to hear about how he started The Bureau and how, exactly, he’s choosing to build his legal cannabis brand....

The combination of computers, the Internet, servers, and other high-tech equipment can have a profound impact on daily operations. Here are some specific advantages of IT and why it’s worth implementing in your business. Safeguarding critical information Whether it’s customer contact info, inventory, or finances, you need to back up sensitive data and keep it out of the hands of the wrong parties. In the past, this was typically limited to saving information on a computer, disc, or USB, where it could be compromised or destroyed....

The FTC’s Stance on Paid and Fake Reviews The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the government’s “consumer watchdog.” In short, the FTC’s mission is to rid the marketplace of “unfair and deceptive marketing” — and it has the authority to both fine and shut down operations. According to the FTC, online endorsements and testimonials can’t be purposely misleading, plus any relationship or connection between a company and reviewer must be disclosed....

How the Emotional Bonds Grow The emotional bonds between A.I. and their human creators are an unexpected noted phenomenon that’s occurring throughout the industry. As reported by The Verge, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai says that the company is working on “robots that will be capable of forming an emotional bond with customers”. The company will be emphasizing a combination of hardware and software innovation to create A.I. products that people can relate to, rather than “faceless robots”....

Because the goal (for many) of quantifying various aspects of our lives is to improve their overall quality, the mobile market has seen an increase in the number of apps that offers capabilities for tracking our human behavior and emotion. The myriad habit and mood tracking apps now available all aim at an inherent human conviction: we all want to be the best versions of ourselves. Whether you want to develop a habit for exercise or learn more about your occasional emotional breakdown (and how to prevent it in the future), here’s a compilation of the best Android and iOS apps that you should be using....

At CES this year, Valeo has pulled the curtain on a variety of their own self-driving advancements, each designed with one main goal in mind: to rewrite the rule book on autonomous cars. Here’s a look at their latest innovations, complete with photos. Like our content? Subscribe now to get articles like this delivered to you weekly. Now back to your reading… “Everything Starts With Sensors” That’s a quote straight from Jean-François Tarabbia, Group Senior Vice President R&D and Product Marketing, at the unveiling of the Valeo eCruise4U, the Valeo XtraVue and the Valeo 360AEB Nearshield....

Always Invest In Domains You Know It is easy to be drawn in by various deals that look perfect and the truth is that nothing is actually great. You need to avoid that by simply investing in domains that you know a lot about. That would automatically reduce risks because you do understand the business market. Thanks to the experience that you have, it is easier to figure out if the startup is scalable or not, which is the main thing you want at the end of the day....

It’s hard to compete with platforms like Eventbrite, but Ticket Cake is carving out a slice of the market for itself. Organizers can post events for free to help attract more attendees. And the company, inspired by its Vegas neighbor Zappos, prides itself on customer service: organizers can contact the team anytime and get help on setting prices, for example. The $1 million milestone comes less than a month after Ticket Cake sold tickets to a rockin’ New Year’s Eve party in downtown Las Vegas, which saw 25,000 attendees....