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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

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Can’t Decide What Business to Start? No Problem, We’ll Tell You

Up and Running

This is an industry that encompasses many different types of youth-focused programs. If you’re concerned about demand, talk to community leaders, churches, high schools, and your local Chamber of Commerce. Find out which areas the youth in your community need help with. As such, it appeals to a wide audience.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment. . Web Design/Tech Services. Communications. Connecticut. Connecticut. Software. -

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I designed our first BHAG in 2013: keep all junk we pick up out of landfills. In the past, these types of goal setting programs were treated as corporate fluff. It’s always been more than just hauling away junk.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. I have similar stories about computer programming from my early days.

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Piers, Parks and Why White People Suck

This is going to be BIG.

The park as it is currently designed is serving the wider community of Brooklyn, not necessarily the people who live right next door who may have, at one time, thought of it as "theirs". I run the free kayaking program in the park--and it''s the most ethnically and socioeconomically diverse thing in my life.

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Why (and how) you should let your customers do the advertising for you

Duct Tape Marketing

Hatchwise is a crowdsourced design community that has designed over a million different logos, websites and graphics of all kinds. At Hatchwise, we realize the most important aspect of our website is the design that the customer receives. For a long time we did not have an affiliate program.