Heather Burchfield did everything right: she went to a good school, secured great internships, edited the school newspaper, got good grades, and established a professional network. Yet, when Heather graduated three years ago she was still unable to land a job in her chosen field— journalism.
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This is a guest post by Pascal Finette, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, mentor, and current head of Mozilla’s global Open Innovation program WebFWD. AnnMarie McIlwain, Founder and CEO of CareerFuel.net, met Pascal at the recent WeOwnIt summit in New York City and he graciously agreed to share this blog with CareerFuel.
Mozilla for Entrepreneurs
Mozilla, the organization probably best known for producing the Firefox web browser, is a weird fish: A non-profit, public benefit organization which competes with some of the largest and most powerful technology powerhouses in the world. An organization which produces one of the most successful pieces of consumer software as open source. And an organization which does all this by bringing volunteers from all around the world together to build, market and support a product we are all deeply passionate about.