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Founding teams that include men and women produce dramatically stronger valuation growth than all-male founding teams, according to research from First ...

rtificial intelligence (AI) applications are multiplying rapidly in the workplace today—so quickly that in some cases they're outflanking managers' ability to ...

LinkedIn is not about how many connections you have. It's about how well you know your network and how well you tend to it, so that your career or business ...

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Lampkin was a full-stack web developer by 15 and holds degrees from Stanford and MIT. But that wasn't enough to get her in the door at . With its 55000 ...

Arlan Hamilton was homeless, sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco International Airport and couch-surfing for months when it finally happened.

Both quantitative data and anecdotal evidence show that the tech industry has a diversity problem and Stephanie Lampkin is looking to chip away away at the ...

These entrepreneurs on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 are creating the solutions you didn't know you needed.

Can new software that reduces unconscious bias in the hiring process succeed if investors won't back it?

When Lampkin pitched Blendoor, the two female investors were completely opposed to the concept.

Las Vegas - The technology industry is quickly moving into a time where there will be a plethora of jobs but a shortage of tech workers, therefore finding,

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it is building an open community of purpose-built and ...

Stephanie Lampkin learned to code at age 13. By 15, she was a full-stack web developer, fluent in the languages of computer programming. She has a Stanford ...

Stephanie Lampkin created Blendoor last year, a job-matching app that hides candidates' name, photo, gender and race information, only highlighting what's ...

Blendoor hides applicants' names, ages, gender, and ethnicity so that their qualifications and skills can take center stage.

Blendoor, founded by engineer Stephanie Lampkin, has a new ranking of tech firms based on their demographic data and diversity efforts.

From sleuthing candidates not actively on the job market to stripping unconscious bias from your search, these new artificial intelligence tools will give your HR ...

Investors are looking at your team, the idea, the market and your formula for success. But ultimately it's about the picture and potential you paint.

Leaders from Snap, Google, and more share their ideas for making 2018 the year that tech finally becomes more inclusive.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, an app that tries to counteract bias in the job application process, about the ...

Last year, Stephanie Lampkin and Blendoor won the 2015 Startup of the Year competition. This year, she's going to impart some wisdom on future candidates.

Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, explains why the diversity needle in tech is not moving and how her company is working to help.

Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of mobile job matching application Blendoor, is the 2015 National Black MBA Whiteboard Innovation Challenge ...

With her venture firm, Backstage Capital, and a new $36 million fund for black female founders, Arlan Hamilton is changing entrepreneurship in the U.S..

Stephanie Lampkin’s Blendoor app helps remove bias and increase diversity in recruitment. The black female owned job matching app has raised $100000.

Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. This has been a long time in the making and periodically predicted since at least 2014. The stock, pre-market on ...

Just a few days left, and the wait will be over for the grand HR Tech Conference. We have packed our bags and will soon be heading towards Las Vegas.

In conversation with Whitney Wolfe Herd and Cindi Leive, the iconic designer, 71, looks back at her career--and forward to spreading her decades of wisdom.

If you've been on Facebook at all recently, either for personal use or to promote your business, you've no doubt noticed radical changes to the newsfeed.

By Samantha Walravens & Heather Cabot Blendoor founder and CEO Stephanie Lampkin is learning how tough it is for tech startups to raise money these days.

I first met Stephanie Lampkin at Harvard Innovation Lab's first Startup Scramble in November 2011 when she was an MBA student at MIT Sloan. During this d...

Yelp this week introduced a new feature: a way for companies to advertise that they are inclusive and welcoming to all. And if that's how your business operates, ...

Launching your new business idea is daunting. Before you take that big step, make sure you fully believe in both the idea and yourself.

From startup to one of Inc.'s Best Workplaces 2018--examining the choices, growth and vision that impact a company's direction.

Four years ago, Hamilton was living out of a hotel room she shared with her mother. Today she's a VC who has deployed some $4 million across 100 companies ...

San Francisco-based Eventbrite has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. The digital-ticketing company is expected to go public before the end of the ...

With hard work, it took only 18 months to get the money back.

There's In-depth strategy, advice, and wisdom for business owners in these (mostly) undiscovered podcasts.

Don't be caught unprepared when some of the biggest shopping days of the year hit.

Stephanie Lampkin has a photo of Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox, up in her office. Oprah, Maya Angelou and Melanie Hobson have a special place in her ...

Implicit bias in hiring is so hard to root out because, well, it's implicit. Even when managers talk a good game about increasing diversity at the office, their actions ...

Amazon just posted a record profit of $2.5 billion for the second quarter of the year, but for some who dialed in to the company's earnings call Thursday, even ...

How do you improve the diversity of your applicants? These tech tools can help you remove bias, review resumes and target diverse candidates.

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Morals are slippery things. We all claim to have them, but ...

With a record 18 women, the 2018 list is the most gender-balanced to date and features a strong mix of influencers from diverse backgrounds.

With their company-logo T-shirts tucked in by Gucci belts, gripping mixed drinks in Gatorade bottles and chatting about the latest work gossip, hundreds of ...

Every touch point along your company's customer journey contributes to the customer experience you deliver. Whether you're working to retain an existing ...

Global business leaders are reassessing their ties with Saudi Arabia, stoking pressure on the Gulf kingdom to explain what happened to a dissident writer who ...

Becoming an entrepreneur means you've decided to sign yourself up to learn things the hard way. This is what makes building a company so exciting. It's also ...

Best Manufacturers, the sole U.S. maker of kitchen whisks, has innovated everything you can put in a pot.

San Francisco-based MissionU partners with companies to train young talent to become their future workforce.

WayUp helps hiring managers spot unconscious bias and break out of their recruiting ruts.

It was only a few months ago that American Airlines got some fantastic news that many other companies would truly love to hear. Regardless of whatever ...

2017 has made it official: Diversity problems are impossible for tech companies to continue to avoid. With these apps, you can start to address them.

The Atlantic magazine, based in Washington, D.C. organized a free, well-attended one-day conference in San Francisco on improving diversity in the US tech ...

'Blind interviews' force companies to consider applicants based on their merits, not their names or profiles. They're showing promise in the tech industry.

Lessons learned from Facebook's customer information troubles and three ways to stay ahead of the changes in the digital economy and its eminent regulatory ...

Thirty Companies Will Present Over Three Days. HORSHAM, Pa., Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After careful consideration, 30 companies have ...

Convenience is the next big thing in customer *service*. Tap into the mindset and watch sales soar.

The argument that increasing the diversity of job candidates leads to “lowering the bar” is flawed because it presumes the existence of an objective, quantifiable ...

On this week's episode of "Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch," one contestant learns what's going on behind the scenes is more important than the product she's ...

Drone technology has immense potential, and a number of businesses are exploiting that in weird and wonderful ways.

Earlier this week, I wrote that the two questions I get most frequently from people who are interested in learning about Heartland Tech are about what cities they ...

Once we are aware of the shortcuts our minds take when deciding who to listen to, we can take steps to block those shortcuts.

It's always quaint when an airline does something that seems to favor passengers.

Uber has won back its London license after a two-day court battle. It's good news for the 3.5 million people who use Uber in London. But Uber isn't out of the ...

Setting up systems and controls is a pain point for a lot of business owners. Learn how a bowl of macaroni can make you millions and why I encourage all our ...

To hear them tell it, the biggest and most influential Silicon Valley companies don't make any distinction between women and men when payday comes around.

Anxiety can spur you to triumph or condemn you to torture, depending on how you manage it, a new book says.

Stephanie Lampkin is the CEO of Blendoor, a merit-based recruiting platform that takes names and photos out of the early stages of interviewing job candidates.

My bizarre 2016 interview with Alison Ettel, the cannabis-startup founder who went viral for appearing to call the cops on an 8-year-old, highlights the ...

"Raise your hand if you've judged a candidate based on the college on their résumé," says Kelly Grossart, recruiting manager for Evernote. She's standing ...

This city hosts a Google outpost, language-learning app Duolingo, and serious rivalries in autonomous-car tech.

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Many businesses are being drawn into socio-politics.

When the four co-founders of Bombas created their startup, they wanted to do more than solely sell socks. The entrepreneurs wanted to donate a pair to ...

Entrepreneurs don't have to--and probably shouldn't ever--sound like robots. Here are a few buzzwords to ban from your vocabulary.

The company's new internal guidelines are meant to curb trolling and bullying--and are a great lesson in social responsibility.

Wondering how to scale up while maintaining your local appeal? Start with these 5 tips.

See why the advertising and marketing title named the founders of Brit + Co, Butterbar, and Well + Good to its annual creative 100 list.

Oprah had the last laugh in 2016, proving naysayers wrong with ratings for her 5-year-old OWN network. Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images. By most measures ...

Given that half of new businesses fail in the first five years, it's a given that you have to be at least a bit of an optimist to become an entrepreneur. A healthy dose ...

BI Prime: We've rounded up some of the most active female angel investors who are writing early stage checks for growing startups in cities ranging from San ...

Gov. Kate Brown attended Wednesday's showcase, hailing the new companies and declaring Oregon "a state of inventors and tinkerers."

A number of recent startups could actually make a dent in the diversity stats at major tech firms.

Black women-owned businesses represent the fastest-growing group of small business people in the U.S. but raise surprisingly little startup capital.

Anna Wiener writes about the tech industry's diversity problem, and about startups that aim to recruit women and people of color to Silicon Valley jobs.

Lindsey Wingo had a big decision to make. She grew up in the small town of Rector in Northeast Arkansas, and when it came time to choose a college, she ...

In a 2016 interview at the New York Times, Bill Gates said that reading is still the "main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding." He told The ...

Millennials are a constant topic of conversation in the business press - just search “Millennials” on Inc.com to see the variety of stories covering them. And often ...

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. We all need our safe spaces. For some, it might be bars ...

There's something rewarding about getting what you hoped for.

It's not a permanent solution, but as a stopgap measure it's smart--and only 4 percent of employers do it.

The votes are in, and we're excited to announce that Blendoor is our Celebrate Startup of the Year.

Sandra came to me with questions about a new project she had been assigned to lead. She would be responsible for her teams' performance for the new ...

Quick and Dirty Tips' inspired by Grammar Girl and National Grammar Day.

In the Trump era, companies are feeling pressured to champion inclusivity. Here's how tech execs are responding.

Seattle-based startup Vicis is on a mission to create a safer football helmet. It's already had some success: The company's first product, the Zero1, finished first in ...

Your company's data can tell you a lot. More important is what it can tell your customers.

Andreessen Horowitz has promoted Connie Chan to general partner, scrapping one of its longstanding rules about who can and can't hold the leadership ...

'Wonder Woman' is a hit at the movies. These business leaders are wonder women in the business world.