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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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5 years of Twitter

By Nistha | Published: March 16, 2011
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, is posting interesting tweets on initial development days of Twitter. What an amazing feeling it must be to see their experiment rocket like this. If this doesn’t inspire you to start working on your crazy idea, what will? [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/48076297083158529"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/48074436380856320"] [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/48066896033091585"]
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Financial IT Services Startups

By Nistha | Published: January 11, 2011
In 2007, when I graduated from University of Illinois, I was intrigued by what’s Wall St all about, what do bankers do, why are all the engineers suddenly becoming bankers. Plus, my then bf and now husband, was himself working on the Wall St. As a result, I moved to Big Apple, joined the big [...]
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