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10.31.06
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10.31.06UnderCutting: Riding the Chinatown Bus to Success
EntrepreneurshipI am currently sitting on an Amtrak train between DC and New York. By sitting I mean that the train was oversold so I am sitting on the floor in the aisle. A suitcase has just fallen out and cracked my knee. Sweet! I'm glad I only paid $94 for my ticket; I could have saved 30 minutes and taken the Accela for $130...sarcastic sigh. Don't get me wrong, I love trains. I do. They are just expensive... and because they are terribly managed, they're frequently subject to overbooking issues on poular routes. My other frequent method of travel between DC and ...
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10.29.06Porsche Theory: the 1960 vs. the 2006
EntrepreneurshipI just got back from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Council’s Leadership Weekend. As the representative for the Hopkins MBA program, I am extremely fortunate to have access to some incredibly talented and smart people. In fact, my experience with the council last year is what provided the impetus for me to devote all my time and energy to creating the most effective and efficient tool available for students and alumni to engage, network and share experiences and common interests. However, as brilliant as most people in the room were, the conversation reinforced a theory I have long held. I call it ...
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10.26.06Friday s Featured Friend: Community Spirit 101
Campus Chatter, Tech'nomics, UncategorizedBefore launching into a review of some cool widgets, I want to talk about community. First of all, the theory of some social networks who belive: "If you build it, they will come" is whack. In order to be successful, with anything web-based, especially a social network, it's all about user engagement and feedback. You may notice that IntelliGrad has added Buddy Mapping under the ’Network Tab’ on our homepage. Clicking on any orange dot on the map will show you the location of someone who is our friend“ you can see their name and sometimes (if they were nice) ...
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10.26.06New eBook on “Facebook.com Story” Aims to Inspire Young Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship, Social NetworkingKarel Baloun, one of the first engineers to join Facebook.com has just published an ebook on his experiences while working there during the company’s infancy and right on up to present . Showing a surprising lack of creativity, he titles it: ’Inside Facebook.’ While the book is very rough around the edges (the grammar and thought process is all over the place since he published it himself and on-line, but perhaps the ’chaos’ of the language is correlated to how a start-up really functions, hmmm ). However, THERE ARE spots of insightful brilliance and with a low price tag of ($9 ...
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10.22.06IntelliGrad’s First YouTube Commercial
Tech'nomics, UncategorizedWe now have a commercial up on YouTube.com. Later this week we'll be putting up a video explaining what IntelliGrad is and how users can best use our current site. Rock On! Click Here to Watch the Our Commercial
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10.19.06Friday’s Featured Friend: Campus Reader
Campus Chatter, UncategorizedCampus Reader is a new site that aggregates the feeds from 300 on-line college newspapers around the US. One cool feature is that the website automatically detects where you are located and serves up local, regional and national college news in a number of categories. According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Campus Reader is having a hard time dealing with traffic right now, so pages may be slow to load. Campus Reader was created by three recent college grads in Michigan - Adam Long, Steve Richert and Carl Paulus. It’s got loads of AJAX“ a new development in coding often thought of ...
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10.19.06Big Things in Little Boxes
Entrepreneurship, Tech'nomicsSo Google recently paid $1.65 Billion Dollars for YouTube.com. Recently, in talking with friends we've realized that there is some misconception about why Google was willing to pay SO MUCH MONEY for a video sharing company. Friends argue,"Sure, YouTube is cool, but they don't have that many great videos - at least not over a billion dollars worth!." The reason Google was willing to pay a ton of money for YouTube is not because of the videos. It's the video player! Understand this...YouTube was really the first company to create a tiny video player that anyone could put on any website, blog, ...
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10.19.06If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It…
EntrepreneurshipThis past weekend a bunch of IntelliGraders met in New York for a big weekend of meetings and strategy planning. At one point as we came down the stairs, on our way out for a late night bagel (fuel) BS’ father asked us how we were doing to which we responded, ’We’re pretty beat. All this work is really starting to burn us out.’ BS’ Dad looked at us and said: ’Well, if starting a company was easy, everyone would do it, right’? Thinking about it later that night“ BS’ Dad was exactly right. All weekend we had listened to people saying ...
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10.17.06Ending A Cell Phone Contract Without Paying a Termination Fee
Campus ChatterMyMoneyBlog has a great article today describing how to LEGALLY get out of a cell-phone contract rather than having to pay $150+ in fines. For example, an IntelliGrad staff member recently wanted to upgrade to a Sidekick, however, Verizon refused to give her a discount on a new phone since she was in the middle of a two year contract. Verizon wanted to charge her over $500 for a Sidekick! Our girl responded: "Well I could break my current Verizon contract for $175 and get a new Sidekick from Cingular for Free!" effectively saving herself $325 from sticking with Verizon. EVEN BETTER ...
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