Archive for the ‘Summer 2009’ Category
Never Slow Down..
Written by: Stephanie Parker In: Summer 2009
22 Sep 2009It’s been almost two months since the True Entrepreneur Corps program ended, and I’m sure the team thought they wouldn’t be getting any more concluding blogs, but here I am! Right now I’m in Florence, Italy kicking off my Fall Quarter studying abroad. Needless to say, the experience is turning out to be one of [...]
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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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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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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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- 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