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 […]
Continue reading...($) Coronavirus and the MBA: What if you’re graduating this Spring?
WARNING We’re covering coronavirus predictions today and possible impact to society. If you are feeling fragile, if you’re not sure you can handle all the uncertainty — which is a legit reaction!! — then please skip today’s post. We’re going to talk about some possibilities for our future that may trigger anxiety. We believe […]
Continue reading...($) The simplest guide to MBA career goals. Courtesy of Berkeley Haas.
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 Continue reading......
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($) MBA career goals are goals for your career (“Well duh EssaySnark”)
Are you being sponsored for your MBA? Do you have plans to return to your current company after you finish with school? Great! Today’s post is not for you. 🙂 Today we’re talking about applicants who want to go to bschool and then they have a pretty good idea of what they want to do...
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($) Is that entrepreneurial experience you had a job? Or an extracurricular activity?
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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($) Using the MBA to start a company
We made some snide remark (shocker) yesterday in our “figure your life out” post about going to strike it rich in California. That’s not to say we don’t think you can launch a company!! We don’t see the majority of BSers who claim that they want to become entrepreneurs in their essays actually go on...
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($) There’s really only a few places we’d consider going to learn entrepreneurship.
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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School to Startup data
Bschools everywhere are falling all over themselves these days to serve as incubators forhot new ideas from enterprising students. EssaySnark remains unconvinced that getting an MBA is the best route to launching a company, but we understand the appeal. Universities are resource-rich environments. There’s built-in support, and you get two full years to focus exclusively […]
Continue reading...($) What does “I want to start a company” mean?
This simple sentence can be empowering – or it can really trip you up and even embarrass you depending on the context and to whom you are saying it. If you’re in Silicon Valley and you utter these words, you could get a range of reactions from an eyeroll to a shrug to a look...
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If you really want to start a company…
…there is literally nothing stopping you. View at Medium.com You do not need an MBA. You do not need a lot of money. You do not need anything except the willingness to get started and actually go do it.
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