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Entrepreneurial Education Programs in New York/Invitation to Founder...
I’ve been very excited to see the boom in the New York startup community in the last 2 years, driven in large part by the shrinkage in the NY industries that traditionally lured some of the most...
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America’s educational system is broken
I was fortunate to attend Wednesday the CED’s Postsecondary Education Summit on Business Leadership for 21st Century Education Policies, as well as their annual fundraising dinner. The CED is a...
View ArticleFree Video: How to Hack Your MBA
Evisors just posted the video from my recent webinar on “How to Hack Your MBA”. Since 1992, I’ve been working on a book tentatively titled “Hack your Education: How to Squeeze Maximum Value from...
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How ff Venture Capital works with universities and students
I meet with a lot of people from the academic world, so I thought it would be helpful to summarize how ff Venture Capital works with universities. Our main goals are: to understand the cutting edge...
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How K-12 education will improve and what to do in the meantime
(This is an essay I wrote while doing background for my book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear.) Public K-12 education is, on the average, abysmal. Higher education is...
View ArticleHow universities can help students and alumni work in the tech industry
“CEO is the new Analyst.” My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. Everyone wanted to work in finance....
View ArticleAlternatives to College: Get Paid to Learn
As part of the research for my book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear, I’ve been researching alternatives to college. Given how COVID impacted universities, I think people are...
View ArticleHow universities can keep alumni excited and connected
A new board member of the Alumni Association for one of the Ivies reached out and asked me for some ideas on how they could better engage their graduates. I took this as a challenge, and brainstormed a...
View ArticleMy new book: To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear
Dear Friends, I’m happy to share that Wiley is publishing a book I started writing while in college, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. We believe this is an essential...
View ArticleFree workshop on graduate school and college admissions
I’m about to come out with a book I’ve been writing since I was a Yale junior, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. My coauthor is Mandee Heller Adler, CEO of International...
View ArticleAlternative Data 101 for Students and Professors
I recently met with a friend who’s an economics professor, who agreed with me that one of the best ways for rising academics to make a mark is to acquire and mine new data sets. I prepared for him a...
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