Ever since I started in my job in venture capital as an Analyst at Rev1 Ventures, I have been intending to write a post detailing my experience trying to break into the world of venture capital. Venture Capital is a notoriously difficult sector to make your way in to, especially junior roles for someone only
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What I learned in 20 years career developing internet products in telecommunication industry
Peter is a telecommunication leader with over 20 years experience developing and managing world class internet products and operations. Capitalizing on the growing home Wi-Fi market, Peter founded Netperian in 2015 to focus on Wi-Fi product development and testing. Peter was head of home hardware product development and operations for Bell Canada. His experience includes
How John Chao Got Data Scientist Job at LinkedIN
It all started in February, 2013 on a sunny Sunday morning in Foster City. As I was sitting at my kitchen table – I started to contemplate about my future career path. You see, I’d been working in predictive analytics and statistical modeling for about 6 years at that point for a SaaS company, but I felt like my
Learn from Leaders – Read the story of Emilia D’Anzica,VP of Customer Success at Qordoba and named 2018 MindTouch Top 25 Customer Success Influencers
Continuing our Women in Tech series , we had an opportunity to interview Emilia D’Anzica, VP of Customer Success at Qordoba, after learning about her career trajectory on LinkedIn. Emilia D’Anzica Emilia is the VP of Customer Success at Qordoba, a localization platform. She is a certified Scrum master, PMP certified project manager, blogger and
Women’s Day Special Stories – How Suhasini Gadam Became A Product Marketing Manager At Movimento, An APTIV Company
Not able to find the right Product Marketing job? Getting bogged down with rejection after rejection? Feeling helpless and don’t know what to do? Well guess what, we have all been there! I remember when I came to the US in 2015, I was super excited to come to the Silicon Valley and further my
Women’s Day Special Stories – How Mai Chi Nguyen Got Sales and Marketing internship at Pearson
I was offered a Sales and Marketing internship position from Pearson, a globally known education company, a few days ago for this upcoming summer 2018. I’ll be working with the local Sales team in Lynchburg, VA for a few weeks, then I will spend the few weeks after that at one of their home offices in
Women’s Day Special Stories – How Bian Salins Got the Job as Head of Social at TSB
Bian Salins – Head of Social at TSB I recently came across a report card from my pre-school days back in India. The teacher had commented how shy and reserved I was, describing me as ‘a dreamer’. I remember laughing out loud because anyone who knows me now will tell you I’m anything but reserved
Thinking about Apprenticeship? Read Josh Deering Got Account Executive Job after Apprenticeship
When I applied for my Apprenticeship I was unemployed and applying for Account Executive Internship job after job but the main thing I was looking for was a job that provided me with 2 things. Job Security Career prospects I wanted to find myself a job that I could feel safe in and that could
How Aidan Duffy Became an Oracle Consultant
What are your reasons for Becoming an Oracle Consultant? Are you searching for information on Oracle consulting, or maybe you’ve worked on an Oracle project with consultants and wondered if you could do the job? Are you interested in traveling to work in different countries, which is one of the big opportunities of working with
How Tim Park got first developer job at Square with no internships straight out of college
5 key elements that will make all the difference in your job search My many suitors. Getting a job out of school is hard. Especially when it seems like every other fresh graduate has been interning at Google or Facebook or Amazon (or all three) since sophomore year. Believe me, I know. When I started my job hunt