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

David Teten

Everyone wants to work in tech startups. Competitions : YHack , Yale Venture Challenge , $25K Entrepreneurship Prize , Venture Clash at Yale SOM ; NYU vs. Yale Pitch Event; Yale vs Harvard Pitch Event, Startup Yale. See Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups. Everyone wanted to work in finance.

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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. has been a deeply-ingrained part of my leadership Operating System for 20-25 years now. We are a STARTUP.

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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. We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m How to build a portfolio of startup investments. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. She is also an adjunct professor, who taught a leadership course at Columbia Business School. How to source great deals.

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Empowering Women And People Of Color In The Workplace

Duct Tape Marketing

Kimberly is a career and leadership development expert a speaker and podcast host whose mission is to empower women and people of color in the workplace. 8:02] It’s become pretty popular in leadership circles to talk about coaching as a skill of a leader, how would you distinguish between mentoring and coaching? [9:26]

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HBS Alumni Angels NY new chairman: Jason Klein

David Teten

HBSAANY has evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in NY , Florida , New Jersey , Connecticut , and San Francisco , as well as many webinars. I look forward to seeing our group prosper under Jason’s leadership. 1) Curriculum innovation. That said, doing is the best way of learning.

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