How This Founder Overcame Challenges He Never Saw Coming

This entrepreneur and Yale dropout hoped to connect college graduates with their first employers, but the path to success proved more difficult than he thought.

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在这节课中Entrepreneur Network partner Jason Saltzman'sResilienceseries, we hear from Andrew Myers, the founder of RippleMatch, an organization that helps college graduates find their first job out of college.The company's focus is to create a valuable and fair process during the job hunt for both graduates and companies. RippleMatch works with everyone from big companies, like Pfizer and IBM, to smaller startup companies and non-profits.

The company faced a huge test just before it began raising seed funding. Click the video to hear more about RippleMatch rose to the challenge.

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