Nana yaw Kwadade
Last worked as an intern at CBORD.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Biotech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile, Nanotech, Retail, Sports |
| Skills: | AJAX, Architecture, Business, Chinese, Computer Engineering, Copyrights, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, French, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Intellectual Property, Investment, Javascript, Languages, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Patents, PHP, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Rails, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, Trademarks, Viral marketing, Web design, Web Development |
| Location: | Manhattan, NY |
| Groups: | HBS Entrepreneurship Club, Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | Internet, programmer, seo, social media, usability analyst, User Experience, user interface, web 2.0 |
| Schools: | Columbia University |
FEATURED STARTUP
Museke
Museke
The Museke project seeks to be the largest database of African music lyrics and information. It also seeks to encourage discussion and accountability for African music in ways that would benefit society positively.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | CBORD |
| Position: | Intern in Development Department |
| Time period: | June 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | Project name: Executive Dashboard - Prototype
Project description: Research and evaluate common dashboard types; evaluate web-based technologies available to create a dashboard application; create a prototype web-based tactical dashboard. Project status: The prototype is being evaluated for marketability. Nana's contributions: - Located and summarized several sample dashboards - Assisted with the user interface design of the prototype - Assisted with the implementation of parts of the prototype's user interface Nana worked directly with a Senior Software Engineer and was overseen by CBORD's Director of Development. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Columbia University |
| Degree: | Information Science, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Soccer |
| Hobbies: | programming |
| Memberships: | Phi Theta Kappa |
Nana yaw's Startups (2)
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Museke
The Museke project seeks to be the largest database of African music lyrics and information. It also seeks to encourage discussion and accountability for African music in ways that would benefit society positively.
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Book Oven
Book Oven is a cloud-based publishing company. We build web tools for collaborating on book creation, and an easy way to publish the finished product as ebooks and print-on-demand.
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23andMe
23andMe, the startup widely known as the company whose founder is the wife of Sergey Brin, has plans to make the human genome searchable
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viagogo
viagogo is an online ticket exchange that allows people to buy and sell live event tickets in a safe and guaranteed way. It is the European secondary ticketing market leader. Have already raised well over $30mm in angel and venture funding.
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CRS
CRS is a health startup changing the world by..Remote Patient Monitoring services to physicians & researchers with more timely and accurate electronic patient health information while reducing costly clinic visits and avoiding potential emerge
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Lydia Muwanga
Primary interest is in innovation: art, design, and entrepreneurship. 2nd year Masters student studying Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Information.
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Rebeca Hwang
Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.