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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
Written by: Chris Parcel In: Summer 2009
13 Jul 2009I spent most of my second week at TextDigger implementing the finishing touches on our CRM database. At the moment, our database remains fairly simple as the data is still very manageable. However, in the coming months, we are expecting the information processes surrounding customer relations to quickly escalate to an unmanageable level. I am [...]
Written by: Chris Parcel In: Summer 2009
1 Jul 2009Greetings! Welcome to my blog, where I will be detailing my adventures with TextDigger and True Ventures as a participant of the TEC program for the next six weeks. First, a little about me. I’m a rising junior at UCLA, where I study Economics and Cognitive Science. Ever since high school, I’ve been interested in [...]
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.