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

David Teten

Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses. Mentorship programs : Association of Yale Alumni Mentorship Program , Yale Office of Career Strategy Workshops. Yale has one of the best drama programs in the world. the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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

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In the Q&A, Bill Gordon introduced himself as one of the principals of the Stamford Innovation Center, an incubator being formed in Connecticut. You can select the business you like best through a poll on the 1M/1M Facebook page. Bill has been following the 1M/1M project and would like to connect his partners to our team.

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Episode 105: From Corporate to Captain with Chris Murphy

Mike Michalowicz

He is co-owner and Director of Operations of Maximum FX Salons Spas in Austin, Texas and Founder of MotivePoint. Chris serves as a Certified Strategies Business Coach for Strategies out of Centerbrook, Connecticut. Also offers an adviser program for CPAs, bookkeepers and business coaches.

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

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Connecticut. Connecticut. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. Agriculture.

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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. In the past, these types of goal setting programs were treated as corporate fluff. Josh Cohen is the CEO and founder of Junkluggers. I was crushing goals as The Junkluggers grew, but I was deeply worried about losing this momentum.

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

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First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here. Anirudh wants to bridge this gap.

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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

I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. I have similar stories about computer programming from my early days. Jeremy Howard : Sure.