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3 ways MBAs screw up their startup job search

Today I’m pleased to have Brian Malkerson, VP of Business Development at TapCommerce, as a guest. Below he shares some common challenges MBA students face when looking for a startup job during business school, plus he’ll tell you how he landed his startup job. What is the biggest mistake you see MBA students make when […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 2/20/14

Brandon Hsiao asks on Hacker News what people did to get their first 100 users for a product. 10 startup founders write about the best advice they’ve ever received on The Daily Muse. Eric Greenberg (eric@innovationinvestments.com) is looking for a UX/UI Principal Visual Designer and a UX/UI Principal Interaction Designer/Prototyper for a new stealth startup company focused on social commerce: […]

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Startup Career Advice for 2/18/14

Entrepreneur Josh Hannah writes about why MBAs can be beneficial on his blog. Patrick Ewers, executive coach of Mindmavin, writes about ways that you can help your network help you. First Round Review details the top hacks from a product manager behind Facebook and Gmail.

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Why learning to code might not be as hard as you think

From Fred Wilson’s post about Github: Tools like StackOverflow (a USV portfolio company) and GitHub allow programmers to see how other programmers have solved similar problems. I was at a hackathon up at Columbia University last weekend and one of the hacks was a development environment that automatically queried StackOverflow and GitHub as you are […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 2/12/14

IMAX Labs is looking for a CTO: IMAX is setting up an awesome new incubator and they are looking for a CTOwho can help them build out and oversee product.  The person should haveexperience taking products to market quickly, ie someone who’s been a CTOof a startup.  Perfect for someone who wants a startup environment […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 2/10/14

Bill Gurley reflects on the nature of market bubbles on his blog. Charles Birnbaum of Bessemer Venture Partners writes for VentureBeat about the four questions you should ask before joining a startup. H.Bloom, a flower and plant delivery service, is hiring for two positions — “one will focus on identifying and managing florists across the […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 2/5/14

Kamkord, a game developer, is hiring a Business Development Manager. Seth Godin, founder of Squidoo, writes on his blog about how companies die, how brands wither, and how careers are made. VC Fred Wilson muses that we can stay brilliant even when our work doesn’t.

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