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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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

David Teten

Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Density – Yale’s campus is dense by design. Its residential colleges are designed to cross-fertilize students and faculty from different disciplines.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. She said, “Dad, one of the great things you and Mom did was never tell us how much things cost.” Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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Piers, Parks and Why White People Suck

This is going to be BIG.

The cost for the park totals in the hundreds of millions of dollars. 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". Actually, we wouldn''t have any of that stuff if it wasn''t for the housing plan.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

7:33] Why was design such a crucial element of this book? [10:16] 10:16] Do you think great design helps you deliver a great message in a lot fewer words? [12:41] Uh, you, you did, you did not unfortunately get a copy of the book, but it's an undersized book, and the book is it's design. I started focusing on design years ago.

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How often do people underestimate the role of design in the whole picture? Jules Pieri: That’s like I’m a hammer and you’re a nail asking me that question because I’m a designer. The design was so old school, not even looking into that company. The experience was not good.

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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. My company was profitable, but I was constantly stressing over the daily fluctuations in advertising cost. I am currently CEO of a company I founded around 8 years ago: Hatchwise.