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Journey of a Tech Entrepreneur: From Yale to ApplyMap

Follow the journey of Daniel Lim, the Founder/CTO of ApplyMap, from Yale to entrepreneurship. Discover his experiences, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.

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Journey of a Tech Entrepreneur: From Yale to ApplyMap

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  1. WHO AM I? • Daniel Lim • Founder/CTO of ApplyMap • B.S. Mech. Eng., Yale University • M.S. Statistics, UCLA • C.Phil. Political Science, UCLA

  2. My High School \

  3. What most folks thought I was doing \

  4. What I was actually doing

  5. My Favorite Parts of HS

  6. My Favorite Parts of HS

  7. Leaving High School… I thought I… … was HOT stuff … wanted to be an engineer … could do whatever, whenever, however I wanted to do it

  8. Yale \

  9. Yale \

  10. My Yale Experience

  11. My Yale Experience

  12. My Yale Experience

  13. My Yale Experience • Changed major 4 times • Got my butt kicked the first 2 years • Was involved in too many extracurriculars One of the BEST parts of my life. But…

  14. What I Learned in College • Everyone has limits • You probably don’t know what you actually want • You will work harder than you ever thought possible

  15. Life After College Clearly, I had no idea what I wanted to do

  16. What do we do? • Figuring out where to apply to college is hard. • Our software finds the optimal set of colleges a student should apply to in order to minimize risk and maximize return.

  17. Where did the idea come from? Work Problems/pain points School solutions in need of problems Solution / Commercial opportunity

  18. My Current Job

  19. Entrepreneurship I became an entrepreneur because I… ... wanted to work on something I’m passionate about ... saw a problem I am uniquely positioned to solve

  20. Entrepreneurship

  21. The worst vice is advice, but… • It’s OK to be lost as long as you keep looking for direction • Look for lessons in every new experience • Don’t do what everyone else is doing just because.

  22. Thanks! Questions? Comments? dan@applymap.com

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