@ LA Tech Summit
It seemed a little crazy last week. How crazy? Sorry…Too busy to remember everything, only left me a feeling about crazy, busy and tired. That’s it. BTW, I even didn’t spend time reading book, finishing ungraded tasks.
1. Proactively reach out to people and finally you will receive response.
Last weekend, I almost send 15 “cold-email” to alumni in my targeted companies. Then I wait. Guess what, 8 people responded my email; I already talked to 5, and visited one in the local office,and others agreed to meet with me when I travelled to San Francisco. Some proactivity offered to help connect with HR. Although I am not quite sure where will I end up at the end, but the warmness and willingness from the alumni made me at least more confidence to apply for MBA intern positions.
Lesson: Hold On! Continue to keep in touch with alumni if you still haven’t hear from them. Ask for help if you do need a help.
2. LA Tech Summit
Last Thursday , I attended the first LA Tech Summit organized by Cornerstone, one of the biggest startup companies established by UCLA Anderson Alumni. There were more than 800 attendance, including startup CEO, CIO, tech incubator, tech accelerator, VCs, students. Forget to say， The Mayor of Los Angeles. I attended the whole day event and even seized the chance to talk to some of the CEO, including the Tinder CEO, Sean Rad.
Lesson: You have lots of chance to attend the event and listen to those CEO talking about the new ideas and industry trend, and also get the chance to meet and talk to some VCs, but if you don’t have a good idea or good team, it is a waste of opportunity. Be Creative, be a pioneer, not a follower if you want to make some thing big.
3. Marketing Field Trip
For the major project, our marketing learning team visited Venice Beach and Santa Monica Beach last week, there was only three miles between this two beach. Our task was to observe the two different market and decided what kind of business want to open, and provided our analysis for the two markets.
Anyone visited the two beach would and compared the two different market place would at least realized they were so different even they were so close to each other.
Some pictures from Venice. Personally speaking, as a backpacker, I prefer Venice Beach. I felt nature and relax at Venice, and it’s more traditional. By the way, there is a small Canal near Venice, and lots of colorful housing.
