Christiana Zoupa just co-founded a blockchain company that aims to improve the lives of millions of seafarers and to reward the scientific community by accelerating new technologies in the shipping industry. Will it work? The next 25 days or so will be telling.

Debra Cleaver of Vote.org is the subject of Sheleader vlog, episode #4. We love this series, which introduces viewers to female founders. It's that rare combo: inspiring AND adorable. 

They almost didn't make it to the first meeting, but this startup story has a happy ending for Kristina Jones, co-founder of Court Buddy. 

Meet the awesome women who founded Project Include, the non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.

"While the bus is already a pressure pot for these young startups to make their idea happen within three days, it is also a melting pot of people with many different backgrounds." 

This is just about the best list of networking (and partying) tips we've read in a long time—from hot shot founder and 500 Startups venture partner/entrepreneur-in-residence Andrea Barrica. Great for both introverts and extroverts, shy and outgoing. 

It's a pretty brilliant idea she had: Help Baby Boomers find housemates. Meet Wendi Burkhardt, and hear her entrepreneurial success story with Silvernest. 

These seven women discover and invest in startups that very well might make a huge difference in people's lives, through the products, services, and startling market disruptions they offer. 

It's just not right, they thought. Then they did something about it. Meet the American high school students who started a petition to help an Afghan girls robotics team. 

This entrepreneur is grateful for all the time she spent working within a large manufacturing company before she launched out on her own. 

Some cutting-edge tech companies with great, remote tech job openings now. 

She was aimed straight for Broadway, but now she's running a company with $25 million in funding instead. How did that happen?

This school pioneered the concept of teaching people coding outside the context of college. Along they way, they taught more than technical skills; they also taught the empathy, persuasion, cooperation, and teamwork that can make someone rise fast and have a real impact on a tech team. 

If we in this community agree, in theory, that underrepresentation is caused by an uneven playing field, what do we do about those who are not aware of or willing to accept this, and are therefore not open to solving it?