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How This Founder Overcame Challenges He Never Saw Coming This entrepreneur and Yale dropout hoped to connect college graduates with their first employers, but the path to success proved more difficult than he thought.

By Jason Saltzman

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In this episode of Entrepreneur Network partner Jason Saltzman's Resilience series, we hear from Andrew Myers, the founder of RippleMatch, an organization that helps college graduates find their first job out of college.The company's focus is to create a valuable and fair process during the job hunt for both graduates and companies. RippleMatch works with everyone from big companies, like Pfizer and IBM, to smaller startup companies and non-profits.

The company faced a huge test just before it began raising seed funding. Click the video to hear more about RippleMatch rose to the challenge.

Related: How This Healthcare Startup Founder Moves His Business Forward

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Jason Saltzman

Startup Mentor, Entrepreneur, CEO of Alley

Jason Saltzman is a seasoned entrepreneur with a background in sales and marketing. Through his role as CEO of Alley and as a TechStars mentor, he advises hundreds of startups, offering real-life practical application and creative marketing advice.  

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