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

David Teten

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. This would cost almost nothing to organize, just one staff person’s time to coordinate.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. No office.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. I like the mention of IRC, and would recommend Freenode as the best overall tech-oriented network. The ecosystem is just hard to beat.