Rakuna has been born 1.5 months. The first half of the first month, we pivoted from a context-based data sharing idea to a campus recruitment management solution. 1 month into this new pivot, here are what we have accomplished:
1. Email 50 people
2. Interview 17 people. Identify 6 people for MVP round. 
3. Have 7 people in our pipeline to follow up for interview since they were busy
4. Have our first MVP - an explanation video
5. Have our first survey ready

Trong is falling out because of his work ...
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Hello blog,

I am excited to use this year to indulge myself in new startup projects that I was too scared to get involved in before. As you probably already know, I have always wanted to have my own business. One thing I learned after working at EY and other places is that working for others only excites me for a limited period of time, and then my excitement will die down through time. I do not want to specialize in one thing. I want to get the full exposure, get my hands dirty on all aspect ...
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Hi blog!

It has been such a long time since I blogged. Many things have happened. I did not make it through the visa lottery and now come back to school for Master of Accountancy at U of M. I have just accepted a part-time job offer as an Accounting Consultant for a small business. The role is challenging but will be very exciting for me.

I like to describe my role as the Controller & CFO's roles. The business owners have 3 separate businesses under the same book. He is planning to grow another...
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1. Frozen movie

This song is just incredibly inspiring "Let it go"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk




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Life is not as easy as you think you can plan it. Let me update on the 2 previous news I posted earlier last month

Great news 1 - Trong's parents only accept our marriage if at least one of us would go home to help his parents' business. Thus, no further marriage talk for now

Great news 2 - My first baby officially left my body on my birthday, February 6, 2014. The ultrasound indicated that the baby was 6 weeks before it stopped growing :( I guess it is not that easy to deliver a baby successfu...
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01/21/2014

First entry of a new year - The Year of the Horse

Great news 1: I and Trong are happily in love. Trong is traveling home (Vietnam) for Tet but also to perform an important mission - propose our wedding to our parents. 

Great news 2: I am having a 7-week-baby inside my tummy. Of course you know, Trong's child :)

Great news 3: With the new responsibility of taking care of another life inside myself, I have made a determination to make positive changes to my routine and diet.

Routinely:
1. ...
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Okay, the worst thing about Yola is that it does not automatically save my draft. I poured my heart out on you and accidentally closed the tab. Now my heart-pouring thoughts are all gone!!!

Alright, the point is, I have been dating this guy for almost a month. But, according to him, our starting point was the first time he took me out to Guthrie theater, back in September (almost 9 months already) and our first date was the day he took me to his favorite get-away place in St. Paul back in Janu...
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1. Fallen Princesses:

http://fallenprincesses.com/mobile/?page_id=6

2. 

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Review of Neighborhoods
1. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/best-places/2012/top25s/qualitylife/hottest.html
2. http://www.bestplaces.net
3. http://www.areavibes.com

Apartment Search:
1. http://www.zillow.com
2. http://www.apartmentfinder.com
3. http://www.mynewplace.com
4. http://minneapolis-st-paul.apartmenthomeliving.com
5. http://mapliv.com
6. http://hotpads.com
7. http://www.apartmentguide.com
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Just a great and extremely inspiring writing that reminds me to live life to the fullest and travel young:)

WHY YOU SHOULD TRAVEL YOUNG

As I write this, I’m flying. It’s an incredible concept: to be suspended in the air, moving at two hundred miles an hour — while I read a magazine. Amazing, isn’t it?

I woke up at three a.m. this morning. Long before the sun rose, thirty people loaded up three conversion vans and drove two hours to the San Juan airport. Our trip was finished. It was time...

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Customers
1. You should treat your customers so they (1) buy more, and (2) complain less
2. It is not about knowing your customer. It is about your customer knowing about you
 
Annual Budget
 Budgeting process of marketing
Step 1: Prepare Marketing Plans
- Marketing plans that position each product in terms of its marketing life cycle
- Competitive mental angle
- Distribution channel
- Awareness or perception of your product and that of the competitors?

Step 2: Rank product opportunities
- Can this produ...
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When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason. There are three founding partners: Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. Next on deck is his son, Matt,the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. 

In this particular context it makes sense that my partners do the lio...

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1. Study important frameworks
https://caseinterview.customerhub.net/page/videos
2. Ace the mental math
http://articles.submityourarticle.com/Richard-Jenkins-9110/mental-math-skills-170467.php
3.. Practice case interviews on McKinsey, BCG or Bain website

http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/Knowledge_Network/How_Do_I_Apply/Interview_Preparation/Case_Interviews/Great_Burger.aspx
http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/Knowledge_Network/How_Do_I_Apply/Interview_Preparation/Case_Interviews/Magna_Health.aspx
http...
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This girl just has a stunning beauty and extraordinarily memorable eyes. I love watching AMNT mostly just to see her.

She is weird but inexplicably attractive and her eyes' expressions are mind-boggling. I hope she wins because obviously she is an all-star with beauty inside out:-) Good luck girl !






 
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I finally met with my mentor today after a month of trying to schedule meeting time. It was relieving to talk to her to catch up and listen to her advices.she was very encouraging and told me that it was not me who had any problems but it was the economy and it was a bad timing to look for job now. She told me she knew people who used to be manager and directors are now applying for analyst jobs, which means that economy must be really bad. Even her company might be going to cut jobs and they...
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Gil Ra Im        : Why you always following me??
Kim Joo Won : Whether i’m with you or not, it seems to be i’m with you. What am i supposed to do??

Gil Ra Im            : So what happened if i hug you, and you like it?

Kim Joo Won    : I’ll let you live a life totally different from now.

Gil Ra Im        : That’s great , am i going to be a cinderella?

Kim Joo Won : No, the little mermaid.

Joo Won        : What is troubling you so much in your dream??

Ra Im              : Because you’re in ...

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Toàn thơ sưu tầm ^ ^ Được hôm tâm trạng đọc những vần thơ này thấy như được trải lòng vậy:D

AI CŨNG CÓ NHỮNG PHÚT YẾU LÒNG NHƯ THẾ 
Thanh Hà 
Em biết rằng anh sẽ chẳng yêu em 
Nụ hôn ấy chỉ là phút giây nông nổi 
Em dại dột, em trẻ con, em yếu đuối 
Anh bỗng hóa thành người lớn bao dung 

Em biết rằng anh sẽ chẳng yêu em 
Bởi trái tim anh đã có thừa người khác 
Bản tình ca ở bên em anh há...
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These past few weeks have been an influx of great news for me. Like a farmer overwhelmed in the esctacy of a ripen harvest, I just can't stop holding a big smile on my face and being overexcited all the day. "You must do the thing you think you can't do." That is true. I went in for things that are so competitive and challenging that I myself always secretly think that they are beyond my reach, now, they are here, in my hands. Everything is just as I want. Life cannot be better.

I do believe i...
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Uh thì mình cũng buồn

Mình không phải đứa thích than thở nên thành ra đôi khi càng cảm thấy mình cô đơn, vì buồn mà thích cố chôn vùi đi, kiếm việc mà làm, kiếm sách mà đọc, kiếm phim mà xem cho nó quên đi nỗi buồn, nhưng mà chẳng nói ra với ai cả. Mình cũng không thích viết ra cho người khác đọc được. Nhưng mà có lẽ buồn thì cần phải giải tỏa chứ giữ trong lòng cũng chẳng phải các...
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After all, he does not make my week, but he is always the one who makes it complete.

First update: it is not actually an update because this thing happened more than a month ago already, but I already broke up with Tung. Breaking up always sounds like a bid deal to me, not this time though. I have not felt much regret, missing, pains or anything since the day we broke up, Feb 27th. In fact, I feel free to live my life and be the selfish me again.

Yet, I keep thinking of my old boyfriend. Of cou...
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Times like this, I want to be more sophisticated.

Life has been a true marathon for me and still, I have not seen the Finish Line yet. Today I came back to my room at 8pm, and it was a bless that I felt the temptation to spend the night chilling out, relaxing, being delicated. It sounds like such a simple reward after all non-stopping race I have been through. Tests, tests, tests, assignments, group projects, work. After all, what is the meaning of my life?

I have a boyfriend that I have been i...
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Finally after an exceptionally long delay right at the beginning of the semester, we got to go to class. Having 3 extra days off was a fun-thought, but the fact was not as fun. I was bored to death as I had nothing to do with my brain and sick of spending my days reading newspapers, surfing the internet and just laying in bed watching Totally Spies. So today, for the first time I felt so happy to start school.

There was not much to say about today, though. However, let's review a bit.

So my day...
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First, just let me scream to the top of my lung: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

YAY ME!!!!!!!!

I am sooo happy! This could be the best day of the week. And this could be the best week of my New year. Haha. I dont know but this is absolutely a good start for a new year. Money, Love, Career, everything seems to be in tune.

4.30pm ...
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For the past week I have been working like a maniac. I went to class during the day, tutored every now and then between my class and my extra-curricular activities, went home at 10pm and started doing homework and working on my freaking papers. Somehow, I still manage to fit everything in my packed schedule and did well on my tests. 

So today, after handed in my final Art History paper, I just felt totally relieved. I deserve a relaxing day after a chain of such hard work that I considers I wa...
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Bình thường mình là một đứa cực kì thích chụp ảnh. Mọi người thường kêu thích chụp ảnh là thích tự sướng, nhưng với mình thì ảnh mang nhiều ý nghĩa hơn một dụng cụ thỏa mãn nhu cầu tự sướng của bản thân, ảnh lưu giữ nhiều kỉ niệm và có tác dụng khơi dậy ý thức về những gì đã qua, đánh thức ta để ta nhận thấy những điều đã thay đổi.

Tối hôm nay trong lúc đang ngồi go...
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So it is finally Fall Break. After all the crazy tests and mid-term essays, a seemingly eternal boring academic life, I finally can take my backpack and hit the road for a trip. This year I go to Charleston again, but with a whole new group of friends: Dionne, Rachel, Leya, and Angelica. 

We started off early in the morning, just around 8:45am. We went to Waffle House for breakfast, which was tremendously exciting for me at first, but later I felt I made a terrible mistake to feel excited abou...
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It is a great TV show that I just discovered today after randomly tried out the new series Outsourced, introduced to me by my friend Kapil earlier. I have always heard of The Apprentice, but never know that it is such a great show hosted and starred by Donald Trump. 

It just makes me realize that we have to live up to reality. Life is an eternal competition. You have to be aggressive, competitive, reach out, speak up, show that you are competent and you are an invaluable asset to the organizat...
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We are playing a game and the game runs like this: the only thing you know is the thing you can put into words. We’re accustomed to thinking, feeling in terms of words; any ideas beyond expression of words simply get ignored consciously or unconsciously. If you feel you love a girl and tell your friend, he’d ask how do you know you love her? What’d you say? Well, if you’re not an articulate person, you may have hard time or never be able to give an adequate explication. Words are too ...
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So things do not just stop at that extra $400 for the ticket.

It seems that one small thing goes wrong will cause a series of other wrongness
 
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I am!
For some reasons, despite my perfect scores in almost all of my classes, I still make stupid mistakes in my daily life that no normal person would make. I thought it was a brilliant idea to skip the agent and book the ticket by myself. I found a great deal, perfect time, price, and airline. Everything could have been so much better if I did not miss that one step of calling the airline to check back and confirm the departure and arrival time of all my flights right after I booked them. I...
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