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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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts. In the Q&A, Bill Gordon introduced himself as one of the principals of the Stamford Innovation Center, an incubator being formed in Connecticut. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. Discuss.

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

David Teten

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship.

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An SEO Crash Course For Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a tool that will attract warm prospects to your website. Not only will unclear navigation compromise your SEO rankings, it will also cost you conversions when visitors find your website. Use at least one relevant keyword to earn some credit with search engines, but make it natural.

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Addicted to Ruthless Efficiency

OnlyOnce

One of my Bolster colleagues who lives not too far away in Connecticut is having drinks with a very important potential partner one night next week as the temperatures outside warm up here in the northeast. What’s this meeting going to cost? Sometimes I even get one done in 15 minutes. Very, very rarely, I’ll book one for an hour.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value.". IndiaCollegeSearch. Discuss.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

And so David was my teacher in a way, you know, I'm an engineer, engineers can't even spell design if you spotted us the first five letters. And, and it was just a, it was just a realization, but particularly in an age where the finance guys run the companies and cost minimization is the holy grail. Just a cost.