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The Best Career Advice I Never Read: An MBA's Take on the Pmarca Guide

Posted by Brian Cantwell

Jul 9, 2009 2:02:00 PM

With the venture community abuzz over Netscape co-founder and serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen's new venture fund, I happened to fortuitously stumble upon Marc's personal blog. I'm glad I did, because I discovered the best collection of career advice that I've ever read. Marc's advice should be printed, bound, and placed in the career development office of every university in the country. The "Pmarca Guide to Career Planning" is honest, insightful, and a must read for any entrepreneur, undergraduate, pre-MBA, or MBA student. 

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Topics: career, Marc Andreessen, career plan, MBA

Why I Use Twitter (And You Should Too!)

Posted by Brian Cantwell

Jun 17, 2009 11:44:00 AM

Yesterday my MIT Sloan classmate @amandapey (check out her b-school blog) tweeted about a study that compared click-through rates on links posted to Twitter and links posted to Facebook. Twitter blew Facebook away with nearly double the click-throughs, despite having 7x smaller test audience. That got me thinking about why I use Twitter and what I find so useful about it.

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Topics: twitter, MIT Sloan, MBA, b-school, #whytwitter

Work is Not School, and Other Internship Wisdoms

Posted by Brian Cantwell

Jun 11, 2009 9:38:00 AM

It took a week and a half, but I have just about settled into the working rhythms of my b-school summer internship. You would think that after four years in the working world pre-MBA, I would slide right back into the daily grind - but it was harder than I expected. Even after nine short months of b-school, my physical and mental state had completely reconditioned to a new way of life. 

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Topics: internship, summer internship, HubSpot, MBA, b-school, summer

The MBA Halfway Point - Looking Back

Posted by Brian Cantwell

Jun 5, 2009 4:23:00 PM

With the completion of exams and the start of my summer internship, the time has come to officially close the books on MIT Sloan MBA Year 1. The year was exhausting, exhilarating, and full of surprises. For all you future MBAs out there, here at the things I wish I had known a year ago.

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Topics: twitter, first year, financial crisis, MIT Sloan, MBA, b-school, wedding