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How to Hack Your College or Graduate School Education

David Teten

See this New York Times op-ed feature, “ Ditch Your Laptop, Dump Your Boyfriend ,” which profiles several college students’ advice to incoming freshmen. I’ve been gestating this since 1992. Among the topics I cover: career planning, time optimization, and selective short-term learning programs and scholarships.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdSPRING Blog

You don’t need to look further than the studio’s homepage for an example of this: it features a live webcam that shows what’s going on in New York-based studio right at that moment. Headquarters: New York City. Locations: London, New York City, and San Francisco. Headquarters: London, UK.

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How to Hack Your College or Graduate School Education

David Teten

See this New York Times op-ed feature, “ Ditch Your Laptop, Dump Your Boyfriend ,” which profiles several college students’ advice to incoming freshmen. I’ve been gestating this since 1992. Among the topics I cover: career planning, time optimization, and selective short-term learning programs and scholarships.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. (ii) Patent Office (USPTO), could create 2.5mm new jobs over the next three years by contributing to startup formation. Source: New York Times Opinion article, Inventing Our Way Out of Joblessness by Hank Nothaft and Paul Michel, August 5, 2010 ).

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Who Will Champion Entrepreneurship?

Seeing Both Sides

  A usually staid Allen Sinai sounded positively hyperbolic, yet apparently spoke for many at the conference, when he told the New York Times , “I’m more worried than I have ever been about the future of the U.S. broadcast it.  Discuss immigration reform, Sarbanes Oxley reform, FDA approval streamlining and all the rest. 

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. Two companies I helped start in 1992, DCTM and Grand Junction Networks both became Stanford business school cases and very valuable, successful companies. So going to Silicon Valley wasn’t an obvious move at the time.

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4 Steps to Making Your Next Great Idea a Reality

Up and Running

According to The New York Times, in 2011 the United States Patent and Trademark Office had nearly “1.5 million patent applications…pending, compared with around 269,000 in 1992.”. Once you have an idea, do some work to figure out your next steps. After all, an idea is not enough. The truth is, everyone has an idea.