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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Seth is one of those truly descent human beings that you meet occasionally in this industry whose earnestness on camera is matched by his behavior off camera. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford?

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. Airbnb knew their first employee would be critical to their culture, so to find their first engineer they conducted hundreds of interviews over four to six months. How to Get Started.

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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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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

How the design and structure of the website played a role in usability as well as search engine rankings, working with the outreach team to create great content that would help build valuable links, making sure emails matched the style of the optimized landing pages, and so much more. Photo Credit: Grant Gordon.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer. 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.

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Using Negative Keywords To Attract Highly Qualified Customers

ConversionXL

Match type options for negative keywords are: Broad, Phrase, and Exact. Modified Broad negative keywords do not exist, because Broad negative terms work very similarly to Modified Broad match terms. Erin over at PPC Hero wrote a really great piece demonstrating how negative keyword match types work , including a really helpful chart.

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