In this book, I share what I learned during multiple successful venture capital job searches, with the hopes that you can leverage these strategies and tactics in your own venture capital job hunt.Chapters and topics include:What's the job of a junior VC? (A discussion of the day-to-day work of an analyst or associate)Onramps to venture capital (Discussion of the feeder jobs and industries to the venture capital industry)Do you need an MBA?What makes...

Want to write songs that move people? Just interested in learning about songwriting? Think you're "not creative enough?" Want to make more money? Stuck staring at a blank page, wondering how hitmakers craft cherished lyrics and melodies?Do you long to express yourself musically, but are overwhelmed by structure and self-doubt? Have online tutorials and songwriting "hacks" left you more confused than inspired?If so, you're not alone.Whether you're an aspiring songwri...

On 20 January 1931, Mrs Julia Wallace was brutally battered to death in the parlour of her home in Anfield, Liverpool. In April of that year, William Herbert Wallace, Julia's husband, was found guilty of her seemingly motiveless murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Yet on 19 May 1931, the sentence was overturned at the Court of Appeal. Since that day, the question of who killed Julia Wallace has remained unanswered. Now, John Gannon has undertaken painstaking research of all relevant ...

The coolest startup jobs aren't advertised. In Finding Startup Jobs John Gannon gives you the passwords you need to crack into them.- Amol Sarva, Co-founder Virgin Mobile USA and Founder of KnotableFinding Startup Jobs is the definitive resource for anyone looking to begin building an exciting career in high-growth startup companies. It breaks down your startup job search end to end: all the way from building one's network in the startup community to actually negotiating you...

An elderly lady, a beguiling leprechaun, and Alzheimer's.

A Kayden McKiernan mystery. Eastern Long Island attorney Kayden McKiernan is stalked by a femme fatale whom he only knows through the internet. Kayden struggles to deal with this mystery woman while also trying to exonerate one of his best friends from a trumped up murder charge. Sex money, and power cast a dark light on this seemingly sleepy suburban landscape.

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association, and Dragon Awards. Some have been writing for decades, others are at the beginning ...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of democratic societies. It also includes...

Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European colonists but ...

For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers for help with their professional development. In this book Poets & Writers provides the authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career. From kickstarting your creativity and developing your style to getting your work read and published, this is the bible for authors of all genres and forms.Written by Kevin Lari...

My good friend Stacy requested a short story to read to her son's fourth grade class in East Moriches for Halloween. Here it is, a twenty minute story to read to children for Halloween. Enjoy!

Greed, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murderThe Spanish galleon Arista sank in 1539 due to a storm and the heavy weight of its cargo. The ship had been carrying Aztec golden treasure: chains, goblets, plates, statues, lamps, ceremonial swords, bricks, bars, and coins, all of solid Aztec gold. Much of the gold, however, had been thrown overboard trying to save the ship.Having read a portion of its log, deep sea divers Ben Gannon and Eugene McCluskey were convince...