Written by: Chris Parcel In: Summer 2009
30 Jul 2009Wow, only one week left. But that doesn’t mean the workload has lessened! My final project for TextDigger is to compile a comprehensive list of all the SEO/SEM firms in the world. No easy feat, since I am estimating the number to be around 4000. But this last task is especially important as one of [...]
Written by: Chris Parcel In: Summer 2009
30 Jul 2009I came into the office on Monday morning at around 8:20 am. By 8:24, I found myself yielding to gravity in the surprisingly challenging battle of keeping my head off the keyboard. I had spent the weekend enjoying the vibrant night life of San Francisco with my fellow TEC interns, and to say the least, [...]
Written by: adaugelli In: Summer 2009
30 Jul 2009I just finished my final lunch with the team at B-Stock Solutions and tomorrow afternoon will be our last get together at the True Ventures office in SF. As I already Tweeted about earlier this week, I already miss SF – this summer has been one of the best experiences that I have ever had [...]
Written by: Alex Mielke In: Summer 2009
29 Jul 2009As the TEC program is unfortunately getting closer to its end, we had another great group of speakers come in to talk to us at the True headquarters at Pier 38. This week’s speakers included SocialCast founder Tim Young, GigaOM CEO Paul Walborsky, and True Partner Puneet Agarwal. Although quite different in style, all three [...]
Written by: Nikhil Sethi In: Summer 2009
29 Jul 2009I was lucky enough to get tickets to watch Club America duel it out with Intermilan at Stanford Stadium, and during the course of the extremely hot, intense match I learned that there are many parallels between playing and winning a soccer match to starting and managing a startup. In soccer the primary goal is [...]
Written by: Nikhil Sethi In: Summer 2009
28 Jul 2009The great thing about working for an art related startup is that the office is awesome. From incredible sketches hanging on the wall, to infectious wall art, infectious car art on the everyone’s vehicles, to laptop and Iphone skins on everything on everyone’s desks, makes the office from a visual perspective an awesome place to [...]
Written by: Cameron Thompson In: Summer 2009
28 Jul 2009We are now in the last of our eight weeks in the TEC program. Yesterday in our weekly marketing meeting I reminded the team that it was my last week with them at SendMe. The time has surely flown by. I vividly remember the first few days at SendMe, trying to learn how to use [...]
Written by: Qiyun Cai In: Summer 2009
27 Jul 2009Work In week VI, I mainly worked on content writing for the company website. As the web today becomes an important tool for lead and sales generation, companies start paying more and more attention to their website content. Not only does the content have to speak well for the products and the company, but it [...]
Written by: Chris Parcel In: Summer 2009
27 Jul 2009When I think about all of the projects and tasks that I have been involved with during my first three weeks at TextDigger, I still have a pretty clear recollection of what I was doing each day – and so far, so good! But it’s difficult to believe that this program is already halfway over. [...]
Written by: Andrew Boni In: Summer 2009
27 Jul 2009This week GigaOM’s Director of Product Management, Jaime Chen, returned to the office after trekking to Europe and Africa. It’s good to have her back, since she makes everything more organized and makes sure we meet our deadlines/goals. On Tuesday, Jaime set up a meeting and a conference call with one of our consultants to [...]
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.