SiNY: Day 7 of 38

A very busy day.
My team and I met with Pavia Rosati, the CEO and Founder of Fathom. From now on, every Thursday we will be working on a group project at Fathom (!)

Then a super-helpful session with Danya Cheskis-Gold on personal presentation, dress and behavior.

Later in the day we had our first career fair with the following companies:
Rent the Runway
Stray Boots
DE-DE
Hukkster
Rent Hop
Lean Startup Machine
Swishu
Knewton
Mortar Data
ShuttleCloud
Greatist
LearnVest


Got some freebies :)


Beautiful sunset on the way home, and it is still light outside(!)

End of day summary: got on a wrong train on my way to school (note to self: catch up on sleep). Met incredibly interesting and inspiring individuals at the career fair; definitely interested in working for some of those companies.

SiNY: Day 6 of 38

Fireside chat with Divya Narendra the CEO and co-founder of SumZero, who also co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU). Wow!!!
Learning from the Pros: Intrack HTML/CSS Intensive with Sean O'Connor, a senior engineer at Bitly.
Founder Talk with Jennifer Fleiss the co-founder and president of Rent The Runway (!!!)


End of day summary: met some incredible people (unbelievable!); mades some progress on lab assignments (Melissa Fear, thanks, for helping me out with git!). Must go through Codecademy's CSS: Coding with Style. Must prepare for tomorrow's career fair.

SiNY: Day 3 of 38

Morning session with Nicole Thomsen, a recruiting manager of 2u.
Meeting with Aaron O'Hearn, a co-founder and CEO of Startup Institute.



Very insightful intrack session with Ellen Chisa, a product manager at Kickstarter (!!!)



Afternoon session with Adam Rothenberg of BoxGroup.
Startup Growth, Fundrasing and Where You Fit Financially with Caitlin Strandberg of Flybridge Capital Partners.



(View from the office)



Late night learning the fundamentals of Github with Brian Dant of Startup Institute.
Setting git issue is resolved! Yay!!!

End of day summary: great day, exhausted, in need of more sleep. Upon my arrival home I realized that I lost my computer. Thankfully, it was still laying on top of the checkup counter at Duane Reade. Relieved.

SiNY: Day 2 of 38

Elevator Pitch & How to Introduce Yourself session with Adaura Adoji.
A session with Katie Rae, a co-founder and chairman of Startup Institute.
A session with one of the founders of Stray Boots.
Followed by an unexpected scavenger hunt.




(Golden skirt rocks!)

Suspicious ar first, tried dollar-a-slice pizza. Turned out to be amazing!
End of day summary: learned a lot, head exploding with new information, bad blisters on my feet.

SiNY: Day 1 of 38

(Two days after arrival to NYC)


Introduction:
Startup Institute New York team: Christina Wallace, Bradstreet Rand, Kailey Raymond + Shaun Johnson, a co-founder and COO of Startup Institute.
+ 42 students (total)
Everyone is AMAZING!
Four tracks: Web Dev + Product and Design + Sales and Business Dev + Marketing.
Product and Design track: only eight of us.
Intrack orientation with Brad.
Many issues with git setup; the concept of git and Github has yet to be conquered.
'What do I suck at' session.
End of day summary: super-impressed, excited, overwhelmed, survived...
Love my new T-shirt.

Accepted to Startup Institute New York

I am thrilled to share the news: I have been accepted to the Startup Institute New York in Product and Design Track!!!

From now on I will be posting about my experience throughout the school.
Eight weeks = 38 days.
Stay tuned!

Olga