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How Can Consulting Experience Help With Startups

Consulting could be an incredible place to start a career, being exposed to higher level problems than a new grad would be working on in a large corporation.

Consulting could be a spring-board of opportunity, but each person has to find their own way to leverage their experience to leap into the next phase.

Whatever you do, keep your mind open and think about the work you are exposed to beyond the task at hand.

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David Woodland - a Management Consultant in Silicon Valley ·

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