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My summer experience

Written by: In: Summer 2010

3 Aug 2010

I guess it’s time to take a look back on the summer. Being involved with TEC has been a great experience for me in a lot of ways. I got to meet a lot of really awesome people at True Ventures and Valencell, as well as interact with all of the other interns in the [...]

A Quick Android Update

Written by: In: Summer 2010

26 Jul 2010

Things are starting to wind down on the actual development of the Healthset Android app. After some successful test runs, and more feedback from the rest of the team, I have been tasked with going back over the code and adding comments/documenting everything. I think just about everything has a nice Javadoc comment above it [...]

The Harsh Reality

Written by: In: Summer 2010

19 Jul 2010

We only have two weeks left before TEC ends! What? When did this happen? I have definitely learned a thing or two so far this summer, and I have made a lot of progress on a really cool little piece of software for Android. I hope in the next two weeks I can put the [...]

Approaching Software Design

Written by: In: Summer 2010

13 Jul 2010

This past Thursday I was able to listen in on some really cool presentations from speakers True has been kind enough to organize for all of us in the TEC program. One of the speakers I would like to focus on in particular is Jeff Veen of Typekit. I have been a bit removed from [...]

The Joys of Android

Written by: In: Summer 2010

6 Jul 2010

I hope everyone enjoyed their Fourth of July celebrations this weekend. I know I had my fair share of cookouts and fireworks. As an iPhone owner, it has been interesting for me to work so extensively with the Android system. While I still love Apple’s handheld gadget, I do sometimes find myself wishing I could [...]

Making Progress

Written by: In: Summer 2010

28 Jun 2010

I can’t believe how quickly time has passed this summer! Things have been really picking up lately in my work on the Android application. In addition to coding sprints and testing with actual hardware, I have been meeting with the guys at Valencell to mockup and storyboard the UI features and design. It has been [...]

I’ve been working on some really interesting stuff at Valencell; including learning and understanding their special protocol and API to interface with the Health Set hardware. The original goal of the project was just for me to port the existing functionality of their Windows Mobile application to the Android platform. Things have been progressing very [...]

Beginning with the Android

Written by: In: Summer 2010

14 Jun 2010

Hey! My name’s David, and I am a CS major at Georgia Tech. I am a rising Junior, and I’ve always been interested in technology. I have been working for the past few days at Valencell, Inc. to help them being their bioinformatics technology to the Android platform. So how did I land such an [...]


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.