Archive | April, 2008

Following up with a past reader submission — question about timing of bschool

Categories: Bschool admissions, career, transition

The email below is a follow-up email from a reader that I replied to a while back. He actually sent this second email back in February, but told me to respond to others in the queue first because he’d already gotten some of my time. You know, i find that really cool of him because I’m more used to people trying to rush me to respond. It’s a nice change of pace to see someone willing to fall back in order to let me help some others with their queries. He’s got a lot of questions for me here, some… Read the rest

Techie with an MBA trying to transition into Consulting

Categories: career, consulting, Technology-related, transition, venture capital

What’s good, y’all. I’d like to start this entry by making another request for people to take the time to read through the past entries on here before emailing me with a question. I’ve gotten a lot of emails lately on topics that I wrote entries about as recently as a month ago. Also, doing a search on the site may not necessarily point you to an entry that I’ve written on a topic, so it really does require a scan of the archives. I realize that there are many entries on this site, but it shouldn’t take too long… Read the rest

Upcoming conference on entrepreneurship at Stanford, June 6-12, 2008

Categories: events

I just got an email about the ASES Summit 2008 coming up at Stanford and I thought I’d pass the information along for all you Bay area folks who might be interested in checking it out.

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CT wrote:

“Hi,

My name is Christian and I am Co-Director of ASES SUMMIT 2008 at Stanford University held from April 6-12, 2008. Our keynote and speaker events, which are Free and Open to the Public, may be of special interest to your blog’s entrepreneurial audience.

Our keynote events will feature Scott D. Cook, Founder, Intuit, Inc.; Daniel Walker, Former Chief Talent Officer,… Read the rest