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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. Step #2: Pitch investors. They’re just doing it.

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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Automated book closing & reconciliation ; document ingestion Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations 1.22 AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Powerpoint creation, data analysis Lawyers 0.8

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. We sort of think of ourselves as an “accelerator” who provides strong education & mentorship. Cramster – Acquired by Chegg the leading online book rental company. So we went ahead.

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How to Project Cash Flow to Forecast the Impact of COVID-19

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We spoke with Greg Crabtree , chair of EO@Wharton Executive Education program, to gain insights on how to plan during these uncertain times. In 2011, Greg’s first book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. Rules for Smart Scaling.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Online text book rental service.

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