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Phoebe Yu

Senior at Cornell majoring in Industrial & Labor Relations

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: htttp://www.phoebeyu.com
Industries: Entertainment, Financial, Internet, Mobile
Skills: Business, Chinese, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, French, Investment, Languages, Leadership, Negotiation, Public speaking, Web design
Next step: Investment banking and graduate school.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Groups: Women 2.0
Visas: Canada, USA, China
Interested in: Brainstorming, Career advice, Employment opportunities, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Internships, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Sharing my projects
Tags: abroad, cornell, entrepreneurship@cornell, ilr, industrial and labor relations, oxford, sauder, st. catz, vancouver
Schools: Cornell University, University of Oxford

FULL BIO

Senior at Cornell majoring in Industrial & Labor Relations

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Freelance
Position: Web designer
Time period: May 2005 - Present
Description: - Code, design, and implement original websites for clients, which include a Cornell department, professor and lecturer, investment firm, author, small businesses, non-profit organizations, and student groups
- Specialize in Search Engine Optimization, Content Management System-driven design, and W3C code validation

Employer: Supreme Court of the United States
Position: Judicial Intern
Time period: January 2012 - May 2012

Employer: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Position: Investment Banking Summer Analyst
Time period: June 2011 - August 2011

Employer: Cornell University
Position: Honeywell Intern
Time period: January 2010 - December 2010
Description: Worked in Office of Student Services in the ILR School.

EDUCATION

University: Cornell University
Time period: 2009 - 2012
Degree: Industrial & Labor Relations, BSc

University: University of Oxford
Time period: 2011 - 2011
Degree: PPE - Visiting Student, BA

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: HerCampus (regular contributor), Oxford Fashion Week (writing team)

INFORMATION

Sports: Curling, yoga, golf, horseback riding
Hobbies: Investing, entrepreneurship, social media, blogging, web designing, wines, fashion, play writing, speech,
Clubs: Oxford Fashion Week, Bacchus Wine Tasting, Hilltop Capital, International Student Admissions Ambassador, Cornell Forensics Society (Debate), Entrepreneurship@Cornell
Memberships: Phi Gamma Nu Professor Business Fraternity

Phoebe's Startups (1)

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  • WhatNext

    Bridging advertisers and young people and solving the biggest problem on a lazy weekend afternoon: boredom.

Phoebe is Following (4)

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  • kiip

    We're a stealth startup focusing on bridging the mobile gaming world and the real world.

  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

  • Givology

    Givology aims to increase access to education for needy students and improve education infrastructure in impoverished areas in the developing world, using P2P grants. By leveraging the power of the Internet and forming partners with non-profits.

  • Followformation

    Followformation is a Twitter tool that helps users follow the top people in the areas of their interest.

Phoebe's Contacts (8)

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  • Dr. Shibley Rahman

    Just finished a Master of Laws, having done 6 other degrees from Cambridge and London, including a Ph.D. About to start an MBA in January 2011 at BPP Business School in London, and heavily influenced by all that is social entrepreneurism.

  • Dan Steketee

    Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .