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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

Success

When she asked investors to consider new companies, she noticed a disturbing pattern: “Founders always got a meeting if they looked a certain kind of way and went to certain schools, but if it was, for example, a Black woman who had gone to the same schools, like Stanford and MIT, she wouldn’t get a meeting.”

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

Eco-Office Gals

Its focus is to train 100 graduate students each year about the fundamentals regarding energy efficiency so that they will be well-equipped to go into Corporate America and share the knowledge that they have with the places where they intern. Oh, and that interns can be more than people who get coffee and do filing.

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