February 16, 2016
We have learned so much from you! Farewell, Cátia!
February 14, 2016
On the eve of Valentine's Day, roughly 20 people who have assisted me in my
month-long journey gathered in Japantown so that I could thank them for
their good will.
I was especially pleased to receive a certificate from ZenPlay and to
receive words of encouragement fr...
February 13, 2016
Today I met Professor Don Wood at Stanford University. His class was about how to negotiate a financing round with venture capital investors, so one of the four start up’s that exist in the “garage startup”, was presenting their project to the classroom. There were tw...
February 11, 2016
Today I met Dan Handalian, the Senior Director of Leadership Development at Year Up. Dan explained Year Up’s mission and talked to me a little bit about the human resources department. Year Up envisions a future in which every urban young adult will have access to the...
February 11, 2016
Today I met Paul Herrerias, CPA, MS-HROD, managing director, San Francisco Global Leader, CFO specialization of Stanton Chase, a global executive search firm. Paul has a master degree in Organizational Development of Human Resources, and I learned a lot of different pe...
February 9, 2016
Today 8th February, our fellow, Cátia Narciso of Lisbon, Portugal went to Facebook for a tour of the campus!
February 7, 2016
From our fellow, Cátia Narciso of Lisbon, Portugal
4 February – 2016
Today I met with Ari Horie, founder and CEO of Women’s Startup Lab. Ari is an amazing and inspiring, both as a person and a professional. She shared with me her personal life so that I understood wher...
February 3, 2016
From our fellow, Cátia Narciso of Lisbon, Portugal
2 February – 2016
Today I met Alejandro Guardiola at the Vault; Alejandro has his CFA and CAIA, is the Partner and Director of Institutional Sales at Seed Change Capital Partners. The Vault is a collaborative workspace...
February 3, 2016
From our fellow, Cátia Narciso of Lisbon, Portugal
2 February – 2016
Today I went again to Draper University to a workshop about Virtual Reality (VR). The speaker was Eric Romo from AltspaceVR. Virtual reality has been in development for decades, but is currently a large...
February 3, 2016
From our fellow, Cátia Narciso of Lisbon, Portugal
1 February – 2016
Today I met with Evan Fisher in the finance department at Google.
Evan took me on a campus tour on a Google bike (painted in Google colors) as the campus is huge.
Evan showed me lots of places where e...