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Interview #7 — Jessica Li
Interview #7 — Jessica Li
Driven, Creative, Family-oriented
Kamesh
Jun 2, 2019
Interview #5 — Karthik Menta
Interview #5 — Karthik Menta
Impact driven, family oriented, and happy are three traits Karthik Menta, an MBA candidate at Cornell and partner at Dorm Room Fund uses…
Kamesh
Apr 20, 2019
Interview #4 — Sakina Tinwala
Interview #4 — Sakina Tinwala
Sakina Tinwala is a junior at the University of Michigan, where she studies industrial operations engineering and serves as the president…
Kamesh
Mar 26, 2019
Interview #3: Adit Damodaran
Interview #3: Adit Damodaran
Gets it eventually
Kamesh
Mar 20, 2019
Interview #2: Michael Lee
Interview #2: Michael Lee
Curious, friendly, and sweaty
Kamesh
Mar 19, 2019
Interview #1: Prianka Subhramanyam
Interview #1: Prianka Subhramanyam
Hungry, laid back, and “the life of the party”
Kamesh
Mar 19, 2019
The Buzz
The Two Way Street: A VC Investor, On What We Look For in Companies
The Two Way Street: A VC Investor, On What We Look For in Companies
At this point, dozens of articles, blog posts, tweets, and longform pieces exist that work through the basics of startup investing. They…
Sumeet Shah
Jun 6, 2019
Fuck your machine learning algorithm
Fuck your machine learning algorithm
In the few months I have between graduation and work, I’ve been volunteering for a high school entrepreneurship program, coaching 16 and…
Kamesh
Mar 26, 2019
How do Uber and Lyft become profitable? By getting rid of the drivers.
How do Uber and Lyft become profitable? By getting rid of the drivers.
The top of this year signaled yet another race between ridesharing giants Lyft and Uber, this time a competition to IPO. As Lyft looks to…
Kamesh
Mar 8, 2019
Y Combinator Takes on Toronto
Y Combinator Takes on Toronto
Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Instacart, Reddit, GitLab, Twitch, Zapier, Weebly. I’m sure you’ve heard of the following companies if not used…
Godwin Chan
May 27, 2019
The Barriers to Investing in Startups Have Never Been This Low
The Barriers to Investing in Startups Have Never Been This Low
Why you should start thinking about investing in early-stage companies if you are a young broke person like me.
Alberto Arenaza
Nov 18, 2018
How do you monetize a private platform?
How do you monetize a private platform?
A few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg penned a 3000 word blog post sharing his thoughts on the future of social networking. In a piece titled A…
Kamesh
Mar 21, 2019
Scooter Startups: The New Modes of Transportation
Scooter Startups: The New Modes of Transportation
Private Transportation Industry Analysis
Noah Sobel-Pressman
Nov 6, 2018
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