Posts by Blake Coleman
Minecraft and the Uncensored Library
Minecraft is famous as a platform to expose people to the world of coding, but have you kept up with Reporters Without Borders library map project, The Uncensored Library? So what is the Uncensored Library? It is a massive Minecraft server and map used to house banned reporting from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Egypt. But, you don’t…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Did Reddit Have Two or Three Co-Founders?
Reddit is set to have its IPO at the beginning of 2022. That makes it the perfect time to feature them on Founder Friday. Often, Reddit is credited as having three co-founders, but is that accurate? The answer is yes and no. Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman had come up with the idea their senior year at the University of…
Read MoreWhat happened at Better.com?
Did you hear about Better.com’s CEO, Vishal Garg, firing 900 employees simultaneously on a Zoom call? It is one of the most shocking things we’ve heard of, especially as you dig into the details. We imagine it came as a shock to those 900 people. After all, Better was only founded by Garg in 2016, and in five…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Code.org’s Hadi Partovi
It’s CSEdWeek, so we thought we’d stick with that theme for today’s Founder Friday, featuring Code.org‘s Hadi Partovi. No organization has done more to help champion computer science at the K-12 level. Hadi’s story is truly an example of the American Dream realized. Hadi was born in Tehran, Iran. When he was two, his family moved to the U.S. so…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Choosing the Right Investor
Inc. recently published an article, How to Choose the Right Investor, According to a Coffee Entrepreneur Who Raised $100 Million. In it, Cometeer co-founder Matthew Roberts shares his insights on how to vet potential investors. Some of the key takeaways were… They need to be engaged and interested in your mission What value do they add outside of capital Carta has a…
Read MoreCEOs & The Great Resignation
Two significant tech resignations have already happened this week in Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Kedar Deshpande of Zappos. Jeff Bezos resigned from Amazon earlier this year. And while we’ve written about the Great Resignation previously, we’ve never looked at it at the CEO level. Fast Company posted a story in November titled “The Great Resignation rages on: CEOS are fed up with their jobs, too.” It referred to…
Read MoreGiving Tuesday 2021
It’s Giving Tuesday today. But what is Giving Tuesday? It is a global day of giving, “a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world.” At STEM Search Group, we partner with several nonprofits tied to K-12 initiatives, computer science, and the support of underrepresented founders. Here is some info on the nonprofits we donated to…
Read MoreBlack Friday 2021
We aren’t ones to short Thanksgiving, but Black Friday is right around the corner. We thought we’d share some things that caught our attention… This deal isn’t exclusive to Black Friday, but if you’ve been considering a new streaming device, Google Chromecast w/ Google TV is tough to beat. If you get the $90 Netflix bundle (the credit works for existing customers…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Joey Womack & Goodie Nation
With GivingTuesday just around the corner (11/30/2021 to be exact), today’s Founder Friday highlights one of the non-profits we support, Goodie Nation, and their founder Joey Womack. Goodie Nation is a non-profit focused on helping underserved and underrepresented founders, “especially those who are people of color, women, or aren’t located in coastal financial centers.” We first heard Joey’s story during a…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Rivian’s RJ Scaringe
On Wednesday, we covered major tech news that had occurred over the past week. One of the stories we linked was on Rivian’s IPO, a price that made it the most successful US-based IPO since Facebook. But, long before Rivian became a $76.4 billion company, its founder, RJ Scaringe, launched Mainstream Motors using his father’s engineering facility in Florida. Today’s Founder Friday shares…
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