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

David Teten

For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., This offers ample space for corporate partners to grow nearby with connectivity to NYC and many potential employees/interns from Yale. the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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Entrepreneurs, Don't Just Create Products or Services?Create a Legacy!

Small Business Force

Why do folks flock to a store like Stew Leonard's in Connecticut? If I asked you 15 years ago if you would ever buy shoes on the internet, you would have looked at me like I had two heads.Yet, Tony Hsieh built a billion dollar business with Zappo's doing just that. There are examples all around you. A family legacy!

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Entrepreneurs, Don't Just Create Products or Services.Create a Legacy!

Small Business Force

Why do folks flock to a store like Stew Leonard's in Connecticut? If I asked you 15 years ago if you would ever buy shoes on the internet, you would have looked at me like I had two heads.Yet, Tony Hsieh built a billion dollar business with Zappo's doing just that. There are examples all around you. " A family legacy!

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

David Teten

Stefanova’s entrepreneurship experience includes being the Founder of Delta Business Consulting, an idea incubator company for start-ups in the technology and telecommunication industry and being one of the early employees at AdRelevance, an Internet Advertising Measurement Company. Ms.Stefanova is fluent in Russian and Bulgarian.

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Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks

Duct Tape Marketing

And so [Fred Knerr 00:00:22:52], who was one of the founders, went out and he visited Fred Morrison in Connecticut near Yale, and he saw all the kids were calling this thing Frisbee. So they took the name of the pie tins and applied it to these flying saucers. And how are you going to know it when you see it?

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

online.wsj.com

At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Connecticut. Computer And Internet. Connecticut. Internet Services. Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. entrepreneurship.

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9/11?s 10th

OnlyOnce

I had left the city that morning to drive to a meeting in Danbury, Connecticut at Pittney-Bowes with our then head of sales, Dave Paulus. At work, where the Internet 1.0 We had one junior employee in our New York office who got into his car on the afternoon of 9/11, drove to New Hampshire, and never contacted us again.