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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. In a very real sense, we funded him, and he superseded even IBM. Bill Gates , for example, shared a common curiosity and mentoring relationship with Warren Buffet, although their business domains were quite different.

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Coloft Hackfest And Your Chance At $4K In Cash! All Thanks to BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. There will be technical and product mentors there to help. Technical and product mentors are provided roaming across the entire place.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. There are more than nine million backers on Indiegogo that engage and support entrepreneurs in over 19,000 campaigns on the platform each month. iFundWomen (New York, NY). iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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Digest 5/30 – 6/5: Nant Health’s IPO, Loot Crate’s Series A, Snapchat Passes Twitter, RadPad FB’s App of the Year

LATechDigest

JJ Abrams Drops by AMPLIFY for a Mentor Talk ( link ). IBM WATSON Came to General Assembly. Lexi Komisar & Neil Sahota of @IBMWatson share the future of platform for #cognitivebusiness to a maxed out crowd! USC VITERBI Brings STEM to Underprivileged Students ( link ). ARENA VC Leads $1.5 Seed for Skyfit ( link ).

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors.

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