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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. We have live connections to every federally registered apprenticeships, every accredited university and educational institution by zip code.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience. We have some great mentors now.

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Learn How to Kiteboard Online. MentorMob Launches Free Social Online Learning Guides

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All content within these playlists is hand-picked from the web for their quality and relevance by the MentorMob Mentors, a group of experts, enthusiasts and bloggers. Entrepreneurship Startups Accelerator Education Entrepreneurs Experience Founders free learning Guides Kris Chinosorn learning Guides mentormob online instruction vince leung'

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How We Won $50,000 Award in SBA Growth Accelerator Fund Contest

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The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. Last year, the company was acquired by Human Longevity, where she is currently the chief technology officer.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? Both have been great mentors ever since. For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock.

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Eight Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg

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1) Get A Mentor. "I " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. The typical startup cannot afford a massive ad campaign to educate users as to its value proposition. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. "I started the site when I was 19.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

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The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. There is no right answer many times, just gut instincts and educated guesses. Blayze CEO Ben Smith started first as a mentor and a resource to the community, believing in give before you get.

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