“We help people learn Chinese through video content, like music videos, commercials, news, and inspiring talks.” – Alan Park, founder of FluentFlix
How this entrepreneur started out selling on eBay, founded a Mashable-rated career site, and raised $1M to start a merchant loyalty company
“Investors want to rush in and invest when you position their fear and greed together: their greed to make a billion dollars and their fear of losing the deal.” – Yu-Kai Chou, RewardMe
What this state school graduate learned about cold e-mail subject lines that helped him get into finance (he’s now founder of a venture-backed Bitcoin startup)
“One small trick I learned involved e-mail subject lines.” – Avish Bhama, founder of Vaurum
How a lawyer and Peace Corps volunteer started a China-focused media company followed by thousands (eventually acquired by the Washington Post)
“In any career transition, what you are gaining potentially in the future is never going to feel as concrete as what you’re giving up now.” – David Wertime, Tea Leaf Nation
How a finance and consulting professional leveraged his network to land a product manager job at a well-known tech company (and his networking advice on paying it forward)
“One of the most helpful things in figuring out what you want to do is to actually just start the job search process.” – Gemmy Tsai, OpenTable
How an accounting major got into the tech industry and landed jobs at Yahoo!, Google, and Stanford Social Data Lab
“Think hard about what you enjoy and don’t enjoy, and be careful when taking on things you don’t enjoy, because those are much clearer than what you do enjoy.” – John Milinovich, Google
How a law school grad without work experience went straight into investment banking and then into hedge funds
“Merger arb is an investing strategy where you’re betting on whether a public M&A deal will actually go through.” – John Chen, BNP Paribas
