10:30 – 6:30 at Vurve, 12 books, 8 blogs posts, a handful of new technologies, Post-PC Era analysis, TEC Commercial, Final Presentation for Vurve, network of influential VCs and entrepreneurs, friendships for a life time. Priceless! As I read through all the blogs I have posted this summer, I can’t help but to feel sad [...]

Lessons I learned: – It is easy to come up with good ideas, it’s hard to execute. – It is possible to survive 2 months on ramen, cereal, and easy mac. – Don’t be afraid of failure. Most people try to live a life avoiding failures. – Success = [cash / (burn rate * time [...]

TEC has been a great experience thus far. Over the last 6 weeks, I have learned an incredible amount about technology, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. The program combines practical startup experience with frequent reading and writing assignments. This week we turned in our summer-long project. For this assignment, we had to work in groups of [...]

Every Sunday, I find myself sitting on my bed thinking about this blog and wondering where the week went. Every week goes by so quickly that I am always caught off guard by the email reminders to update our blog. If I were to describe my summer experience thus far in two words, it would [...]

Did your parents ever trying to convince you to read often when you were younger? Mine did…I wish I had listened to them! This week at True we meet Tim Young from the enterprise microblogging solution Socialcast. Tim gave a great presentation as he took us through his interesting entrepreneurial background. During his presentation he [...]

Hello readers! I can’t believe it has been 3 weeks already. I mean, I am almost half way through this internship experience.  I feel like my life is an action movie on fast forward.  It is incredible! I am starting to develop a daily routine and getting into the rhythm of things.  For example, I [...]

Every week our awesome mentors at True send us guidelines to help us start thinking about topics for the blog. This week, Adam asked us to talk about what we have been working on at our start up as well as how the company was founded, the team, their vision, and etc. I will not [...]

Hello world! My name is Hanyin. (It is pronounced like ‘onion’ but with an ‘h’)  I am one of the 15 lucky interns for the TEC program this year. I am originally from Beijing, China and lived there until I was 10 then came to Boston in the States. Currently I am a junior at [...]