Archive for June, 2009
Week 2 at Syncplicity and Structure Conference
Written by: Qiyun Cai In: Summer 2009
29 Jun 2009The highlight of my second week was definitely the Structure Conference by GigaOm. Coming from a non-technical background, I barely had any systematic knowledge about cloud computing before I started my internship. I work with Syncplicity, which also falls under the cloud computing area. It was great that some of the issues discussed in the [...]
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Giving "Structure" to The Cloud
Written by: Stephanie Parker In: Summer 2009
29 Jun 2009I should really attend more conferences like this. I get so much new Twitter traffic!
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Week 2 Highlights at GigaOM and True Ventures
Written by: Andrew Boni In: Summer 2009
27 Jun 2009Just finished up another awesome week out here in San Francisco with GigaOM and True. Highlights of my week include meeting the other four interns (Qiyun, Stephanie, Chris, and Nik) for lunch at Paragon, attending one of GigaOM’s Bunker Series sessions, learning about the venture capital industry/silicon valley in general with Jon Callaghan & Tod [...]
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Timing
Written by: Cameron Thompson In: Summer 2009
26 Jun 2009During our time together last Thursday, we briefly talked about the importance of timing in the entrepreneurial process. Over the weekend I happened to read an interesting article that paralleled the importance of timing: A man named John Joseph Houghtaling died at the age of 92; he invented the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed in 1958. [...]
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Week 3 Reflections
Written by: adaugelli In: Summer 2009
26 Jun 2009Hey all! It has been an awesome week with B-Stock Solutions and GigaOM’s Structure ’09 Conference. Realizations from this week: 1. Everyday here is a learning adventure. When I get home I find myself filling my journal with pages and pages of new things I have learned throughout the day – from finance to cloud [...]
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Raw Beginnings
Written by: Nikhil Sethi In: Summer 2009
25 Jun 2009From the moment I accepted the opportunity with True Ventures to the end of my first week on the job, my view on entrepreneurship has been shaken twice. Before arriving I had a pretty good idea what being an entrepreneur was all about. I had personally gone through the idea generation phase, executing upon that [...]
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First week in SF and Syncplicity
Written by: Qiyun Cai In: Summer 2009
22 Jun 2009The first week was busy and fun. I work with Syncplicity, a company that offers synchronization and collaboration software for consumers and businesses. My first project is to research competitors and compile a competitive analysis. Easy as it sounds, it turns out to be a challenging and time-consuming project. Never had experience with Sync software [...]
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Week II
Written by: Alex Mielke In: Summer 2009
22 Jun 2009This week, we got together at Pier 38 for our first afternoon at the True Headquarters. Although I have previously had the opportunity to study and meet with a number VCs as part of a field study course at BC, I was able to learn a lot from Jon who gave us some great insight [...]
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The benefits of a startup
Written by: Cameron Thompson In: Summer 2009
19 Jun 2009This week I have continued to update and analyze data so that we can make more accurate and meaningful decisions in our CPM Media Buy campaign. Just since posting this time last week, we have experienced substantial drops in customer acquisition cost as a result of our ongoing efforts to optimize. We have put in [...]
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The Adventures of BrightSparker, Chapter 1
Written by: Stephanie Parker In: Summer 2009
19 Jun 2009Running up Mission St at 8:05AM, not knowing whether to curse Google or my watch for failing to match “MUNI Time.”
Gathering with my co-workers during lunch to be entertained by “Swoops,” the angry Blackbird that attacks only *the unsuspecting* passersby on Front St. http://www.frontstreetattackbird.blogspot.com/
Having lunch at True Ventures on an uncharacteristically warm San Francisco afternoon, with some of the brightest people I’ve ever met–and receiving a Dr. Seuss book as required reading for the program.
…And I haven’t even talked about my work yet!
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What is TEC?
The True Entrepreneur Corps is an internship program developed by True Ventures to pair undergraduate students with our portfolio companies for a summer of learning and innovation.
This summer, participating True companies include bloomspot, BrightRoll, Fitbit, Kiip, KISSmetrics, Loggly, Schematic Labs, Socialcast, Sparked, Tello, WeGame, and a stealth company.
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- Summer 2010 (114)
- Summer 2011 (76)
- Your Questions About Free Advice On Starting Your Own Business | Mikey Likes It: [...] If I get home after 9, and realise I have no milk I have to do without.Powered by Yahoo! Answe [...]
- Learn how to design, build, and market a web app - True Ventures TEC Program: [...] out creative ways to drive traffic and get users to your web app. You should learn the basics [...]
- Learn how to design, build, and market a web app - True Ventures TEC Program: [...] out as many resources as I can related to design, development, and distribution/analytics (i.e [...]
- Adolfo Castellon: *blush* There goes all of my street cred as a tough guy! Now I'm going to have to take up grousi [...]
- Bernardo de Seabra: Stephanie, It was great having you with us in the team. I wish you all the best for your last aca [...]
- Learn how to design, build, and market a web app
- The 3 Ds, Ass & Ass & Ass, Life Is Too Short Rule
- A Change in Direction
- Conquering the Inbox
- That’s A Wrap, Folks!
- The BrightRoll Hug, or Learning to Love Code Reviews
- The journey from “CS major” to “Software Engineer”
- A Formative Experience
- Week 7: The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
- Week 6: Meet Manish Shah
TEC Participants
- Adam at True
- Adam D'Augelli
- Alex Mielke
- Ali Shah
- Amelia Lin
- Andrew Antar
- Andrew Boni
- Brian Solomon
- Cameron Thompson
- Charles Smart
- Chris Parcel
- Christiaan at True
- Connor Hood
- David Idol
- Francis Thumpasery
- Hanyin Cheng
- Jacob Hartog
- Jenny Li
- John Abassian
- JP Bonner
- Katherine Maslyn
- Lionel Vital
- Mallory Short
- Mike Mo
- Nikhil Sethi
- Nolan Lindeke
- Qiyun Cai
- Richard Berwick
- Ron Radu
- Stephanie Parker
- Stephanie Zolayvar
- Steven Liu
- Teddy Worcester
- Tyler York
- Vicki Peng
- Vishal Maini