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10.14.06

Thanks Andy!
IntelliGrad
Just a "shout out" to Andy the CEO and founder of OurStory.com. As we mentioned before IntelliGrad has decided to share our story and progress with the world so that hopefully we can inspire other young entrepreneurs. Here is what Andy had to say: "Making graduates more intelligent or at least more knowledgeable about the basics of being a self-reliant human is a noble cause...I salute your service!" Best regards, and best wishes for a successful business! Andy founder/ceo OurStory
10.14.06

Playing the ‘UnderDog’ Role
Entrepreneurship
So yesterday I had had the opportunity to talk about IntelliGrad in front of some venture capitalists (’VCs’). These are guys who have lots of money and use it to start companies that they hope to sell, thereby adding more money to their current millions. Now don't get me wrong - some VCs are amazing and truly are heroes, others, well, they're just not that cool. So why did I agree to present? Well, I am in no way interested in selling IntelliGrad. However, I thought the experience of talking about our company and getting some exposure and feedback was a ...
10.14.06

New Directions - Same Goals
IntelliGrad
Hi Everyone, So IntelliGrad is really starting to come together“ but we have made some major directional changes. First, let me say that everyone should check out IntelliGrad on MyStory.com (click here)“ we are posting information about company updates and the story of ’how we came to be’ on this cool website. So what are we doing differently? Well, we have decided stop creating lots of our own content and instead focus on collecting resources that are already available on the web and bringing them to you all in one spot“ aggregation as the buzzword goes. So for example, you can check out ...
10.13.06

Friday’s Featured Friend: PayScale
Business Models
As featured on TechCrunch, a great website that provides tons of useful information for graduates is PayScale.com PayScale is a website that provides analysis comparing salaries and benefits for a given job function, in a given location based on the inputs of other with similar skills and experience. Users are asked to input information about their current position (if you're a student you could input information from a past job). The user can then access detailed salary information in the database, including custom reports based on salary, bonus, commission, hourly rates, and health and vacation benefits. The basic service is free, and ...
10.11.06

We’re Back!
IntelliGrad
Hi everyone! Sorry! The IntelliGrad blog was down for a few days while we uploaded the new website. IntelliGrad.com is now alive and kicking, but we're still ironing out the kinks. We'd appreciate any user feedback about what you see as areas for improvement or change. We're encouraging users to submit their own podcasts on various topics - similar to YouTube. Pick a topic near and dear to you: the GMAT, Studying Abroad - anything where you feel your voice and experience could help other graduates. As of today, IntelliGrad is no longer focusing exclusively on colleges and universities. Our information and offerings ...
10.03.06

College Students Not Using the Internet Effectively?
Campus Chatter, Tech'nomics
From an article on iMedia.com we discovered an interesting graphic showing how the internet habits of full-time college students compare to ’overall internet usage by adults’ as of Spring 2005. We found these results to be very interesting, but to discern more valuable information we put these results into the following categories in order of popularity of usage: Communications (email & IM) Locating Information (news & research) Entertainment (downloading games & music) Tasks (banking & reservations) Jobs [We ruled out two categories that are self-selecting: downloading games and online research“ obviously college students would have a much higher usage rate than adults.] Next what we did was to ...
10.02.06

Email - Out Like Casette Tapes?
Tech'nomics
According to recent article on Digg.com, e-mail is "out like casette tapes." Email is old -school. At least that's the contention of a string of articles published in the last four months, the most recent appearing today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle states that in a study last year, "teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with 'old people." The Mercury News states, "For those of you who have just figured out how to zap spam or manage your inbox, prepare for the bad news: E-mail is, ...
10.02.06

How Skype Could Help Land You a Job
Campus Chatter, Tech'nomics
First, what is Skype? If you are a college student or young professional and have not heard of Skype, you are missing out BIG TIME! Skype lets you make free calls over the internet to anyone“ whether or not they have a Skype account. That’s right, you can call your mom’s cell phone, your friend at USC, or your favorite customer service agent (800) number) for free! No more wasting cell phone minutes! Skype works with most any computer that supports a high-speed connection and which has a microphone and speakers. If you don’t have a microphone, click here to order ...

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