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Know Your VC Is the Yelp for Venture Capitalists

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Thiel Fellows Program Is “Most Misdirected Piece Of Philanthropy,” Says Larry Summers Two years after billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel announced a test to pay luminous high schoolers to drop out of college for $100,000, the…

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Opinion: Peter Thiel’s Dropout Army

Opinion: Peter Thiel’s Dropout Army

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Fellows were selected via a competition that culminated in a two-minute pitch to Mr. Thiel and a team of judges — a gentler version of “Shark Tank.” The winning dropouts included the 17-year-old biology prodigy Laura Deming, who had entered M.I.T. at 14 with the goal of eliminating aging-related disease — a pursuit that has become one of Mr. Thiel’s core personal and investment…

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Opinion: Peter Thiel’s Dropout Army

Opinion: Peter Thiel’s Dropout Army

[ad_1] Fellows were selected via a competition that culminated in a two-minute pitch to Mr. Thiel and a team of judges — a gentler version of “Shark Tank.” The winning dropouts included the 17-year-old biology prodigy Laura Deming, who had entered M.I.T. at 14 with the goal of eliminating aging-related disease — a pursuit that has become one of Mr. Thiel’s core personal and investment…

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Using Your Situation To Get In Front Of People

This past week I caught up with a friend who happens to be a Thiel Fellow. We got to talking about how using your situation (whether it is being a Thiel Fellow, a college student, or something else) to get in front of someone is an important thing for people to learn.

We joked that no one is going to turn down an introduction to a Thiel Fellow. It’s an unbelievable vehicle to leverage.

For me, I’ve always used my "situation," whatever that may be, to get in front of the people I wanted to. In college, I used the student angle to get meetings or introductions to people I wanted to know or talk to. When I interned at Viacom/MTV Networks, I used that situation to look up executives at CBS, Paramount, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and other subsidiaries to ask for meetings while I was there, to pick their brains, and make lasting connections.

The same situation at Aviary and Dwolla. Being a venture backed startup gives you the opportunity to have some legitimacy behind who you are and what you are working on. It's a lot easier asking/getting an introduction when you are person X, from company Y that has $Z in venture funding from big investors- rather than person X, solo, looking to get connected.

So figure out what your situation is and use whatever it is to get in front of people you want to know.

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I will probably never have the brain capacity to understand any of your ideas Noor but I'm still super excited for you!