This is the seventh feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting Raheem, a chatbot for anonymously reporting and rating experiences with police. Brandon Anderson, the Founder and CEO of Raheem, intimately knows the desperate need for data and insights that bridge the information gap
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This is the third feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting MindRight, which provides proactive SMS-based mental health coaching to inner-city youth. In inner-city neighborhoods, one in four youth witnesses a murder before they turn seventeen. One third of those young people go on to
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On BlackRock accelerator day 2, we had the fortune of having Singapore-based Su Yuen Chin, Co-Founder and CEO of MomoCentral, come speak to our cohort. Su Yuen is an expert in product development and managing a remote, global product team, as her company employs 40
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This is the second post in Fast Forward’s 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting the stories of this year’s cohort. Get to know Concrn. If you live in San Francisco or have spent enough time in the city, the following scene is probably familiar to you. You’re
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This is the first post in Fast Forward’s 2017 entrepreneur series. This week, you’ll meet Beyond 12. Stay tuned all summer to learn the stories of each entrepreneur in our 2017 accelerator cohort. College graduation is a worldwide measure of educational success and career
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It sounds crazy, but we spend nearly 9-months building up to our summer accelerator each year. People often ask (myself included, when I first started working with Fast Forward) why we don’t run more than one accelerator program per year. The truth? Preparing to run
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