Category Archives: MBA

Announcement: Joining my dream startup

By Nistha | Published: July 14, 2011

I love this blog as it has helped me immensely in landing my dream job. Just wanted to announce that I am taking a break from MBA to work fulltime at Yipit, a startup that is revolutionizing the daily deal aggregation process. I love the local commerce space and Yipit is innovating like crazy. I [...]

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How to get the right MBA internship at a startup?

By Nistha | Published: June 15, 2011

I had three ambitious goals when I started my MBA- To try out different roles through semester internships including at least one VC role To do a PAID, meaningful summer internship at a startup Join/build a startup fulltime either after graduating or in between (drop out if necessary) – identify the right opportunity whenever it [...]

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Stern Entrepreneurs

By Nistha | Published: April 29, 2011

Stern’s entrepreneurial community is growing stronger day by day. I published an article in the school newspaper where I interviewed some of the most successful student entrepreneurs at Stern. The published article had to be truncated due to the space limitation, so I thought I’ll post the full transcript here. Here’s the original article – [...]

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In search of a [perfect] business [model]

By Nistha | Published: March 15, 2011

Third-party Twitter applications under threat Soon the only way to get at Twitter might be through “official” software produced by the company itself. And that’s why building a castle on top of another building is a bad idea because you always remain at mercy of the landlord. Should the owner decide to pull back her [...]

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EEX Entrepreneurs’ Summit at Stern 03/25

By Nistha | Published: March 8, 2011

First things first. As the AVP Conference, I have worked hard and long on realizing the execution of Entrepreneurship Club’s first Summit idea. I and few fellow officers have been carving the raw stone with our ideas on panels and visions for what is most relevant to our community and after few months of genuine [...]

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