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Entries from May 28th, 2009


 

My Latest Investment

Posted May 28th, 2009 By J Bueno  | 5 Comments

Seven years ago you would have found me surrounded by children living in extreme poverty in Tibet. Five years ago you would have found me rebuilding a community in rural Mongolia.  Three weeks ago, you would have found me working with Tibetan Refugees, a pickaxe in hand, and knee deep in the rubble of a 300 year-old Buddhist Monastery located in a village called Chairro tucked away in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. Today, I’m on the 2nd floor of a San Francisco high-rise working on investments for Meltwater Group.  What’s the connection, the common link, the motivation? The answer…

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Opportunities to Build and Globetrot

Posted May 27th, 2009 By Kimling  | 3 Comments

I started with Meltwater News in September 2006, joining the most common entry-point into the company, the International Management Trainee program.

Starting out in the Silicon Valley office, I can’t honestly say that I knew what I was getting myself into. I knew from the interviews that I liked the people and that a sales role was going to be challenging. I learned soon after joining the office, that Silicon Valley was the breeding ground for most of the current leaders in the US Meltwater organization. It was a hot office; people were fired up and there was a difficult-to-describe energy and pulse in…

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From Berlin to Down Under

Posted May 26th, 2009 By KathiP  | 1 Comment

I thought opening up the first office of Meltwater News in New Zealand would be a challenge, but right now I am faced with even a bigger challenge: how to start my very first blog post???

Introducing myself seems like a good idea…

So here goes: my name is Kathrin – called Kathi though by everybody – I am 27, and I started working for Meltwater in Berlin in February 2007, right after graduating with an International Business and Cultural Affairs degree from the lovely University of Passau in Germany.

After graduating I was open to doing a lot of things but I did…

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My First Blogs: One of Many Meltwater “Firsts”

Posted May 21st, 2009 By NickyD  | No Comments

It’s not the first time at Meltwater that I’ve been presented with a task foreign and intimidating to me with the expectation that I would step up to the challenge.

Meltwater News represented to me exactly what I wanted out of my first job - the possibility to lay a career path for myself in an entrepreneurial company where I’d be exposed to business on a practical level.  At that point in time, Meltwater News had only one US office in the heart of Silicon Valley that was nothing more than a pile of cardboard boxes and unassembled Ikea furniture.  I had no…

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1955 meets 2009

Posted May 20th, 2009 By JennyGale  | No Comments

When asked in January of 2008, “What are your career plans? “…
My answer was the inevitable:  ”I’m moving to New York to work as a consultant by day, and fashion designer / entrepreneur by night.”

And that was the plan.

I was already designing, manufacturing, and selling a popular line of Pin-UP Girl inspired dresses in Texas with a small business that I had built from the ground up with my best friend / business partner… and we were most definitely ready to take on the Big Apple, 1950’s style.

I also had a BA in Inter-Cultural Communication, a Minor in Russian Studies, and…

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