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May 18, 2020 10:20pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2020

Pre-MBA Career: Sales/Business Development overseas, tech start-up co-founder

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Entrepreneurship Companies: Other

GPA: 3.98

Years of Work Experience: 5.5

Location: Seattle

Notes:

Immediate post-MBA goals: switch from business development to operations, raise second funding round for my start-up (SaaS, $750k seed funding, reached breakeven in 2 years, now $1M annual revenue), scale the team (hire for the US office), scale-up the company. Only female on the board. White/non-US citizen but live in the US.
Taking the GRE in 2 weeks, crunched for time but will do my best and see what happens.

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grichmond Verified User. Likes Earned: 1245 Thanks for your post! So you are currently running your own business, and seeking and MBA to move from bizdev to operations - are you not the CEO? How will you juggle a FT MBA with the demands of working in a growing startup? The schools you are considering will want to understand your plans in this regard, and to have a very concrete idea of your goals/needs for the MBA. Best of luck with the GRE and your applications! Keep us posted! (1)

anon71753 Likes Earned: 9 Thank you, GRichmond. No, I'm not the CEO - I head business development and all client-facing stuff. Given the current climate with the market slowing down, I'm more focused on surviving rather than the active growth of the start-up. I'll delegate my day-to-day tasks to direct reports, and have co-founders to back me up with strategy planning while I'm at school. (0)

Likes Earned: 0 So you are planning to apply this season? I'm guessing it's a last-minute decision, to apply, based on these current circumstances? My concern is, are you aiming high enough, would you have any regrets going to a sub-optimal program? (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2020/05/episode-104-wire-taps/ (0)