New Year New Newsletter 🎉
HAPPY 2020! Where Women Belong is starting off this new decade with something new, CoStart: A Newsletter. We will be bringing to you tech news, trends, jobs, and products to help you break into and succeed in tech.
We will be sending a fresh new newsletter every two weeks if you have already received this one, apologies we are testing a new platform. Wait for the next one next week!
Blog Post 📚
ITS ALMOST END OF FALL INTERNSHIP RECRUITING SZN
Read our article to snag those last-minute software engineering internship positions.
Tech Trends 📈
Future of fashion tech
Functional Fashion and Techwear, the more futuristic cousin of athleisure. Techwear is beginning to enter the mainstream athletics, sportswear, and activewear markets. Several global brands — including Nike, Adidas, Japanese sportswear brand Descente, and Italian luxury sportswear brand Stone Island — have begun releasing their own techwear lines.
Check out 6 techwear startups to watch here.
First Round Capital's State of Startups Report
This week First Round Capital released its report on the state of the startup ecosystem. It's the industry's largest dataset on what it’s like to run a startup with 3,600+ submissions and 190,000+ data points.
Read it HERE
Podcast 🎙
From Biology Major in College to Technical Product Manager @Linkedin
Listen to Sriya Maram's story about how she started college, a little lost, as a biotech major and found her way into tech through internships and hackathons and how she landed a technical project manager position at Linkedin.
Resources ✨
Great resources to take advantage of is the Breakoutlist is a list of startups compiled by professionals that are mostly mid-sized startups that are likely to make it big.
Jobs 💸
Venture Capital job boards are a great way to find jobs and internships at startup companies. Some VC Job Channels to explore:
Tech talks 💻
System design -Â Product development concept
Have you ever thought how WhatsApp or other Real-Time messaging app works?
This article explores the high-level engineering and system architecture behind a real-time messaging app. It's interesting to understand how key features such as text messaging, Media support, last seen, message encryption and telephony services are designed. Further, you can read here about the tech stack used and why.
Thanks for reading CoStart :)Â
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Hey there, We’re Debparna, Manasi and Shraddha, 3 women in tech in Software, Product and Business roles in startups and Fortune 500 companies. We looove helping other women break into tech. Help us spread the word!