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E[nstitute], School For Entrepreneurs, Emerges From New York Startup Scene. Kane Sarhan first realized there was a gap between college and the real world as an undergraduate working part-time for the owner of a large bar and restaurant chain. He recalls going back and forth between courses and corporate meetings, wondering when the skills he learned in the classroom would apply to the boardroom. They rarely, if ever, did. After graduation, Sarhan took a job under the founder and CEO of a New York technology startup, and within two years, became the leading salesperson at the firm. His rise within the company prompted the CEO's fiancé to one day ask Sarhan why more Millenials didn't eschew traditional higher education and dive right into apprenticeships at startups.

The question festered inside Sarhan's head for months. Already, some of the city's most high-profile startup CEOs have agreed to take E[nstitute] students under their wings, including Ben Lerer of Thrillist, Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker and Hilary Mason of Bit.ly. How are you getting the word out? Unemployed Greeks Look To Create Their Own Jobs. Hide captionPanos Papadopoulos, 28, is the co-founder of BugSense, which makes a service to track bugs in mobile phone applications. He also mentors other young entrepreneurs at CoLab, a business incubator in Greece.

Joanna Kakissis/NPR In Greece, more than 21 percent of the working-age population is jobless. For Greeks under age 25, the rate is more than double that. Some young Greeks are frightened that the economy, now in free fall, will take years to recover, so they're leaving for jobs abroad. A magnet for these young entrepreneurs is CoLab, a business incubator in a weathered building near the Athens Cathedral in the city center. Now, it has 45 occupants including software and programming whizzes, Web developers, corporate responsibility consultants and even a couple of yogis.

One of the stars here is Panos Papadopoulos, a 28-year-old computer scientist. "We have 5,000 developers from Japan to Argentina," Papadopoulos says. A Need To Be More Creative That's about $1,600 a month. Startup Knowledge | coLab Workspace Athens - Coworking. 1. Satisficers vs Maximizers. Gathering additional information always comes at a cost. We’re better off setting our criteria for making a decision in advance (as in, “I’ll make the call once I know X, Y, and Z”).

Once you have that information, make the choice and move on. 2. We are designed to process information so quickly that “rapid cognition” – decisions that spring from hard thinking based on sound experience – can feel more instinctive than scientific. 3. We should trust our expert intuition (based on experience) when making choices about familiar problems. 4. If you’re wrestling with a difficult decision, consult a friend or colleague who’s been in your situation before. 5.

Ask yourself if this decision is really that meaningful. Read full article by Jocelyn Glei Image from The99percenters.com. Startup generation ready to fix economy - Business - Eye on the Economy. By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs® Welcome to SkollWorldForum.org former Social Edge users!

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Sincerely, The Skoll World Forum Online Team. Why VCs Are Getting Into PR. More than ever before, venture capitalists are digging in. To stay competitive and top-of-mind, VC’s are no longer loaning their advice and their capital, but actual “core” services that portfolio companies need. This shift isn’t necessarily new. For example, top VC firms like Kleiner Perkins and Greylock play a hands-on role in helping recruit talent.

Recently, we’ve seen firms roll up their sleeves for another core competency: public relations. More often, I’ll be pitched on a story on a startup by the in-house PR rep for an investment firm that has invested in the said startup. One of the first major hires in the industry was the addition of PR honcho Margit Wennmachers, co-founder of one of the largest technology and media PR firms OutCast Communications, to Andreessen Horowitz as a partner. Clearly some of the brightest and most well-regarded talent in the technology PR industry are no longer just at agencies or in-house.