{"id":1322,"date":"2018-09-07T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2018-09-07T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:03:53","slug":"this-founder-believes-you-can-accelerate-your-career-like-a-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/this-founder-believes-you-can-accelerate-your-career-like-a-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"This Founder Believes You Can Accelerate Your Career Like A Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By By Frederick Daso<\/p>\n<p>For college students looking for summer internships or starting their careers, job searching a tedious, arduous process. Fortunately, Kevin Wu, 23, and Derrick Mar, 24, founded Pathrise to address career management issues for college students. <\/p>\n<p>Pathrise is a career accelerator that helps students get their ideal job, with the students paying the startup a portion of their salary only if they end up getting hired. <\/p>\n<p>The cofounders were a part of Y Combinator\u2019s (YC) Winter 2018 batch, and have gone on to raise $1.2 million from investors such as GoAhead Ventures, LetsVenture, and YC itself.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/frederickdaso\/2018\/09\/04\/this-founder-believes-you-can-accelerate-your-career-like-a-startup\/#548b07f86c71\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/frederickdaso\/2018\/09\/04\/this-founder-believes-you-can-accelerate-your-career-like-a-startup\/#548b07f86c71<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By By Frederick Daso For college students looking for summer internships or starting their careers, job searching a tedious, arduous process. Fortunately, Kevin Wu, 23, and Derrick Mar, 24, founded Pathrise to address career management issues for college students. Pathrise is a career accelerator that helps students get their ideal job, with the students paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,66,1],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-hr-2","category-new-job-sites","tag-pathrise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":840,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/side-raises-5-7-million-to-match-students-with-companies-for-short-term-jobs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1322,"position":0},"title":"Side raises $5.7 million to match students with companies for short term jobs","author":"Robert Smith","date":"July 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Romain Dillet, TechCrunch.com French startup Side raised another $5.7 million with Xavier Niel leading the round. 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