Archive for July, 2009
Week #5 at TextDigger
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 [...]
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Week #4 at TextDigger
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, [...]
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Final Week with B-Stock Solutions and True Ventures
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 [...]
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Week VII
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 [...]
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How a soccer match parallels a winning startup.
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 [...]
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The Infectious Office
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 [...]
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Final Thoughts
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 [...]
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Week VI and Video
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 [...]
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Week #3 at TextDigger
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. [...]
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Palo Alto, Danny Shader, John Burke, and Stanford
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 [...]
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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.
Categories
- Summer 2009 (54)
- 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