fellows program
Kleiner Perkins Debuts First Engineering Fellows Class
techcrunch.com
Last year, venture firm Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm’s portfolio companies. The benefit is two-fold: students get to work at the startup level, are mentored (and have the prestige of Kleiner Perkins on their resume)...
How to Get Involved With The White House Digital Road Map
techcrunch.com
President Obama’s technology advisors are looking for some “kick ass” fellows to work on the White House’s new digital road map for open government. Announced on stage at Disrupt 2012, CTO Todd Park and CIO Steven VanRoekel detailed five new projects, each which will need a team of open government...
The 21st Century Gold Rush Announced At Disrupt: Raw Data
techcrunch.com
President Obama has a “high geek quotient” according to his senior technology advisor, Todd Park. Park and U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel announced five major federal initiatives at TechCrunch Disrupt today, along with a call to entrepreneurs to join in a new gold rush of data that will be released in...
White House to startups: we want ‘badass innovators’
gigaom.com
The country’s top tech talent may gravitate to Silicon Valley and New York, but the White House is making a hard push for them to consider a “tour of duty” in Washington, DC. In launching the government’s new digital roadmap and Presidential Innovation Fellows program, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd...
From HHS To The USA: CTO Todd Park Brings Tech Innovation To D.C. Data
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United States CTO Todd Park brings Silicon Valley wisdom to D.C.Park gets to put government data to work in a filibuster-free environment. | Photo by Brian Finke Todd Park, the cofounder of health-care juggernauts Athenahealth and Castlight, had already been CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
White House Receives Flood Of Innovation Fellow Applications After Its Disrupt Announcement
techcrunch.com
Disrupt isn’t just a great launch platform for startups. Earlier this week at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, President Obama’s senior technology advisor, Todd Park and U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel announced five new federal initiatives to get entrepreneurs and other innovators to work on the White House’s new digital road map...
Meet Your 2012 NYC Venture Fellows: The Founders of Warby Parker, MakerBot, Yipit, and More
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via nycedc.tumblr.com On its Tumblr, the New York City Economic Development Corporation posted an announcement this afternoon about the 28 individuals named to the city's NYC Venture Fellows Program. The press release was actually issued last Tuesday, the NYCEDC confirmed by phone, but was only just added to Tumblr. C'mon,...
Better government through code
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In his inaugural address in January of 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged his fellow Americans to "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." In 2010, the question has been updated: ask not what your country can code for...
Turing Fellowship works to fill New York’s engineering pipeline
gigaom.com
New York’s got an abundance of almost everything, but engineers are increasingly a precious commodity. But the NYC Turing Fellows Program is revving up in its second year to really take on the problem and start feeding more tech talent to the exploding startup scene. The Turing Fellows Program last summer...
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