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3 startup career advice questions for Comcast Ventures’ entrepreneur in residence

By on June 17, 2014 in Career Advice

Today I’m excited to publish our interview with Comcast Ventures’ entrepreneur-in-residence, Daniel Gulati. Daniel recently led the company he co-founded, FashionStake, to an acquisition by Fab.com. In this post Daniel gives some pointers on how MBAs should approach their startup job search and interviews. He also shares some great tips for connecting with and through venture capitalists to […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 6/16/14

By on June 16, 2014 in Career Advice, Startup Jobs

Tidal Labs is hiring a Sales, Operations and Recruiting Coordinator, as well as a Client Success Manager for Social Campaigns (must have LinkedIn account to view.) Kevin Epstein, marketing executive and author of Marketing Made Easy, is teaching a Stanford Continuing Studies course entitled Marketing for Non-Marketing Professionals. Skinesiology is looking for a co-founder to handle business and […]

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Startup Career Advice for 6/4/14

By on June 4, 2014 in Career Advice

Jillian Ferrante writes for VMTurbo about how to get promoted faster at a startup. Ari Paparo shares a site for simulating a product management interview via Twitter.

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Startup flakes

By on June 4, 2014 in Career Advice

Now that I am a founder I am particularly sensitive to a certain type of person I’ll call (for lack of a better term) a startup flake. A startup flake does things like: Meet with a founder, ostensibly about a job with that founder’s company, but then tell them what you are really trying to do […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 5/28/14

By on May 28, 2014 in Career Advice, Startup Jobs

CB Insights, a data analysis  software company,  is looking for a Digital Marketer. The NYT’s Corner Office column interviews Anne Berkowitch about effective leadership. Anne’s startup, SelectMinds, was acquired by Oracle in 2012.

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 5/21/14

By on May 21, 2014 in Career Advice

True Capital is hiring a VP of Product. ShopKeep, a business management software company, is hiring a Financial Planning and Special Project Lead. David Norris, an early-stage eCommerce investor at Forward Partners, writes about finding a startup COO on Quibb.

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Don’t bother to show up at a startup interview unless you have one of these

By on May 19, 2014 in Career Advice

Before you interview with a startup you need to do a bunch of preparation to make sure you’ll knock the ball out of the park. I wrote this 12 point checklist for startup interview prep a while back that should help you do exactly that. There’s one part of that 12 point checklist that’s the most […]

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