Archive for the ‘Summer 2009’ Category
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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Week V highlights and Alcatraz
Written by: Qiyun Cai In: Summer 2009
27 Jul 2009Sorry for my late post! Have been trying to write about my week V experiences for the last few days, but didn’t really get to do it till today. Like any other weeks, last week was eventful and fun. Several highlights of the week: 1. Palo Alto We went to the True Palo Alto office [...]
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reCAPTCHAs, Phil Black, Brad Garlinghouse, Om Malik, and the Giants
Written by: Andrew Boni In: Summer 2009
27 Jul 2009The TEC Program is halfway over already. It feels like we just started. This week, I mocked up some new contact forms for both GigaOM and GigaOM Pro. One of the key features of the contact form is the implementation of something known as reCAPTCHA (slightly different from a regular CAPTCHA). In case you didn’t [...]
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The Best & Worst of Times
Written by: Stephanie Parker In: Summer 2009
24 Jul 2009Without a doubt, the TEC program and the entire San Francisco internship experience has only gotten better, more challenging, and more fun (this gloomy weather might mess it up, though!) during the time I’ve been here. As I write this long overdue blog entry, I’m splitting my peripheral vision between two laptops and a Dell [...]
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Twitter- Quitter: The Truth about Tweeting
Written by: Cameron Thompson In: Summer 2009
24 Jul 2009I have decided to write about something that has recently gained much notoriety, too much in my opinion — Twitter. Have you heard of it? Twitter has created a magnificent stream of mostly-useless information. I have found that many of the users tend to post updates that I not only don’t care about but I [...]
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Week VI
Written by: Alex Mielke In: Summer 2009
22 Jul 2009Like the prior weeks, week six had a number of highlights for me. First of all, I finally discovered the usefulness of Twitter when I came across a tweet by fellow TECster Stephanie Parker mentioning a very interesting article from Business Week’s Sarah Lacy about SendMe’s recent success. Forwarding the link to John and the [...]
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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