Archive for August, 2009
True's Braughm Ricke, WeGame's Jared Kim, the Business Plan, and Wrapping Up
Written by: Andrew Boni In: Summer 2009
23 Aug 2009It’s amazing how quickly this summer seemed to have passed. Well, you know what they say, time flies when you’re having fun. I have to say that I miss the program and San Francisco in general. I’ve been going through San Francisco withdrawal lately. Anyway, in the last week of the program, I met a [...]
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Socialcast's Tim Young, GigaOM's Paul Walborsky, True's Puneet Agarwal, BackType's Chris Goulda, and GigaOM Pulse
Written by: Andrew Boni In: Summer 2009
13 Aug 2009Hey all — I can’t believe that week seven of the program has already come and gone. This week was cut a little short due to the fact that we returned from the company off-site retreat on Tuesday. The retreat was an amazing time — I got to meet and befriend people who I had [...]
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Thanks for an AMAZING Summer
Written by: Chris Parcel In: Summer 2009
10 Aug 2009My Dad and I often joke that I couldn’t have designed a better internship for myself this summer. Our conversation normally goes something like this… Dad: I still can’t believe the internship you landed this summer. You spend 4 days a week doing Biz Dev work at a hot tech start-up, you would have been [...]
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Thank you True Ventures.
Written by: Nikhil Sethi In: Summer 2009
1 Aug 2009I just wanted to take this time to express my gratitude towards the people at True Ventures, for setting up this incredible opportunity to 8 extremely lucky students. Not only have I learned an immense about the venture capital and startup space, but True Ventures has opened my eyes the infinite possibility and seriously infected [...]
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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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- 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