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($) Is that entrepreneurial experience you had a job? Or an extracurricular activity?

July 26, 2022 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

Everybody is interested in entrepreneurship now, and many applicants have tried their hand at something entrepreneurial in the past. That’s especially true since the entrepreneurship emphasis has filtered through society into colleges, and many younger applicants are now trying for bschool after having had school-sanctioned venture-ish experiences while earning their bachelor’s. Or, maybe a buddy […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship Tagged With: extracurriculars

($) Short term goal, long term goal, dream job – OH MY!

September 29, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

Still working on your Columbia app? Let’s talk about what they are asking for with their career goals questions: Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what, in your imagination, would be your […]

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Filed Under: career goals, entrepreneurship, family business Bschools: Columbia

($) Pitching venture capital as your post-MBA goal

July 20, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We spoke in broad strokes about trends in MBA career goals and what we’re seeing in essays these days. Here’s more detail on the currently most popular sexy-sounding goal: Venture Capital. Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.   We’re planning a few more of these dedicated “pitching goals of X” type […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship, finance

($) “I started this thing….” aka When is a startup you’ve created actually a startup

July 16, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Startups are sexy! Startups are the future! Everybody wants to do a startup! And hey look, you’ve already done one! (Or have you???) Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends.   If you want to learn about the pros and cons and tips and tricks of pitching something entrepreneurial as your MBA […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship, planning your strategy Tagged With: lessons learned

($) Do you still want to be an entrepreneur?

October 5, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Venn diagram - Adam Grant - How to Pick a Collaborator

Can you even remember what you were planning to be and do at this time last year? Everything has changed. Undoubtedly you have changed, too!! Our reactions to stress are so individual. Some people feel uncertainty and they kind of panic — they get an emotional response that makes them feel very activated by it […]

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($) Coronavirus and the MBA: What if you’re graduating this Spring?

March 27, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

U.S. unemployment claims by week

  WARNING We’re covering coronavirus predictions today and possible impact to society. If you are feeling fragile, if you’re not sure you can handle all the uncertainty — which is a legit reaction!! — then please skip today’s post. We’re going to talk about some possibilities for our future that may trigger anxiety. We believe […]

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Filed Under: coronavirus, entrepreneurship Tagged With: predictions

($) The simplest guide to MBA career goals. Courtesy of Berkeley Haas.

November 21, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas Leave a Comment

This is pure career-goals gold. Not sure how we discovered this little gem, but tucked away at this Google Docs link is pretty much everything you need to think through your career goals for an essay to business school. (Here it is

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Filed Under: career changer, entrepreneurship Bschools: Berkeley Haas

($) MBA career goals are goals for your career (“Well duh EssaySnark”)

November 7, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Are you being sponsored for your MBA? Do you have plans to return to your current company after you finish with school? Great! Today’s post is not for you. 🙂 Today we’re talking about applicants who want to go to bschool and then they have a pretty good idea of what they want to do […]

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Filed Under: career changer, entrepreneurship, family business Tagged With: sponsored for MBA

($) Using the MBA to start a company

April 30, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We made some snide remark (shocker) yesterday in our “figure your life out” post about going to strike it rich in California. That’s not to say we don’t think you can launch a company!! We don’t see the majority of BSers who claim that they want to become entrepreneurs in their essays actually go on […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship

($) There’s really only a few places we’d consider going to learn entrepreneurship.

October 23, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses NYU Stern Leave a Comment

Just because entrepreneurship is hot doesn’t mean everyone knows how to do it. Every single business school in the world has jumped on the entrepreneurship bandwagon. Why? Because it means $$$ — to them, not necessarily to you or any wanna-be founders. Sure, the schools love it when their students are successful and they can […]

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Filed Under: entrepreneurship Bschools: NYU Stern

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