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Alex Collmer Of VidMob: “Keep your eyes on the future”

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An engineer by background, he has made a career living at the intersection of technology, design, and consumer entertainment. So, at 19 I found myself with a need to save up a lot of money and not much in the way of marketable skills. First, I learned about responsibility. Thank you so much for joining us!

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Dr Paul McNeil: Things You Need To Know In Order To Create A Very Successful Tech Company

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Dr. McNeil leverages his over 10 years of interdisciplinary research and development experience to create innovative solutions to challenging problems. His research has been funded by the academic, private, and government sectors. Before we dive in, our readers would love to learn a bit more about you.

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“Dreamers who ignored the naysayers and did what others said was impossible” With Candice Georgiadis & Danny Umali

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In 2014, he launched Game Theory College Planners after realizing that a modern enrollment management and research-based approach was needed to address the college problem. I learned a lot about computers my freshman year of college in an introductory course and everything I know about technology was built from that foundation.

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Jason Alvarez Cohen and Nick Eischens of Popl: “Don’t be everything to everyone”

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I learned this the hard way. In meetings, if you oversell yourself, it comes off as desperate and unprepared. Together, the entrepreneurs applied their backgrounds in software engineering, business management and their social media savvy to build a global brand with Popl through a viral marketing strategy on TikTok.

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Rachel H Graham: “Failure is not an option”

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Much of what she learned in executive development provides a strong foundation for teaching not only addiction recovery but the overall health and wellness of every individual. Some of the most beautiful things come out of life’s challenges. I found my purpose through a devastating life shift.

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“It can be used by dangerous people to create danger and by responsible people to accelerate positive change” with Alexandra Shadrow, and Tyler Gallagher

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While in college at Boston University, Alex created a hobby-website called UNItiques to be a fun way for women on campus to share closets. After graduating, Alex made it her mission to spread “relovving” fashion beyond the campus and launched the app Relovv in the prestigious Techstars Venture Accelerator. and “what are they made of?”

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Dr. Anthonise Louis Fields of Bristol Myers Squibb: ” Collaboration is key”

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A traditional unidimensional approach, for example, solely engaging underrepresented minorities, falls short. During undergraduate, performing research on tissue from patients that were still in the hospital, I learned from my mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Bernstein Rand, how research can expand options for patients who have exhausted all treatments.