“I am doing some scheduling and when are you leaving again?” “July 27th.” “Oh wow that’s soon! We have tons to do before than!” “Sure! I am excited about it!” I didn’t realize how time has flied until I had this conversation with my boss today and we couldn’t believe I only have one month…
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Value Network Principles of Venture Capital
My company is a venture capital firm focused on early stage fund that invests in female led consumer internet and mobile startups. We focus on investing in startups that have with a female founder or who are active in female dominant marketplaces. We target early stage investments (seed and pre-seed) in the consumer lifestyle sector…
Organization Culture – Unbank Ventures San Francisco
In terms of organization culture, Unbank Ventures is a very open and creative-minded organization. Students like me, who came to America from ‘foreign’ countries, usually feel very pressure and uneasy when they first start working in the United States. When I first came here to San Francisco and joined the company Unbank Ventures, I was…
A Cathedral of Smiles…
The cleft lip and palate industry provides cleft lip and palate anomaly surgical care as well as follow-up care free of charge, financial assistance for expenses such as families traveling to treatment centers, comprehensive information to educate the public to raise awareness and advocate for such causes, research to learn about the causes of such…
Getting Used to San Francisco
After several weeks working and living here, I started to get used to San Francisco. As a foreigner, I can clearly tell the differences between Pittsburgh and here. Some of my friends says that they miss Pittsburgh, and so do I. I miss my friends and home there, but talking to which city I like…
Industry Analysis – Unbank Ventures
Unbank Ventures is one of those venture companies that participate in a variety of networking events. A major job they have is to attract and bring people into those networking events; it is basically about sales and operations. They build a global platform to provide education, advisory, and investor connections to startups, financial institutions, and…
The Culture of Innovation
The San Francisco Bay Area is famous for its long history of leadership in computing, semi- conductors, software, biotechnology, the Internet and other innovation-based industries. But what makes it unique, beyond its talent base and access to capital? What exactly is the often celebrated “West Coast culture of innovation”? The relationship between the overall environment…
Showdown between Hoover and Cathy…
The organization where I intern at, Alliance for Smiles, fixes cleft lip and palate anomaly problems by sending surgical teams to various underserved areas such as China, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar for two-week missions. These teams are composed of 15 medical volunteers as well as 5 non-medical volunteers who cooperate with local medical practitioners to communicate…
Lands End
I personally think San Francisco is a amazing place for both work and life. It has been 3 weeks since I started to work here, and usually when it was weekend, I would go out with my friends to see some views. We have been to golden gate park, Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman wharf and…
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