Learnvest

How a Harvard Dropout Raised $24 Million in a Recession

 

Since Alexa von Tobel dropped out of Harvard Business School to create LearnVest in late 2009, her personal finance startup has attracted more than 100,000 users and raised $24.5 million in funding.

Von Tobel stopped by Venture Studio to talk about her story, as well as shed light on LearnVest’s latest feature, Career Bootcamp, which teaches users how to negotiate a salary and to how to make sure they’re in the right job. She also spoke about her inspiration for LearnVest, why she dropped out of Harvard in the middle of a recession and what advice she’d give to those who are just starting their own businesses.

The whole interview is on Venture Studio, just click on the photo to check it out.

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Mashable Video: Inside Tips from Entrepreneurs and Investors

This is part of my ongoing Series on Entrepreneurial Culture.

Mashable's resident video-journalism bad-ass, Jehangir Irani, recently posted the video piece below in which he asked a number of entrepreneurs and investors various questions about launching, growing and investing in startup companies. He lined-up Katerina Fake of Hunch and Flickr, Alexa von Tobel of LearnVest, Brett Martin of AppFund, Brian Schechter and Aaron Schildkrout of Howaboutwe, Nick Nyhan and Dylan Goelz of Roadify, and myself to discuss these various matters.

The original piece can be found here

Enjoy.