Welcome students! You’ve arrived on this blog by some internet route, And you may be wondering what TEC is about. So you like entrepreneurship and want a sneak peek? You’ll work at a young startup for most of the week. Your projects this summer will put you on the map, Like websites, and models, and [...]

This week, I was lucky enough to be invited by my bosses at Assistly to a Lean Startup talk, featuring IMVU’s Brett Durrett.  I was delighted when Mr. Durrett credited Continuous Deployment, Scrum, and IMVU’s Hack Weeks as a large part of his company’s success. Agile development and developer freedom are being increasingly used by tech [...]

This was one of my favorite weeks working at customer support platform Assistly because it was huge in both progress and creativity. First of all, I’ve pretty much wrapped up a several-weeks-long project to create Assistly’s entire product video offering — that’s storyboarding, scripting, audio recording, audio editing, video recording, video editing, and making title [...]

Katherine from customer support platform Assistly here.  It’s the halfway point of TEC, and I’ve noticed several major themes beginning to emerge from the experiences of all the entrepreneurs we’re meeting and reading about.  I’ll be sharing these in my next few posts. One major theme that’s common through their stories is how key it [...]

In Chapter 4, I blogged about how team rapport and camaraderie is a common theme that’s emerged in many of our lectures and readings.  Another common theme is the usefulness of iterative design. Iterative design is the ongoing cycle of releasing a product, letting users play with it, gathering feedback, and improving it based on [...]

The highlight of this week was GigaOM’s Structure 2010 conference on the future of cloud computing. Cloud computing is quite a hip and happening thing in the tech world; it flips the paradigm of how companies access and manage their resources on its head.  Rather than storing information on a local server in the traditional manner, [...]

Hello, TEC readers.  I blogged last week about my early interest in entrepreneurship; this week, I’ll be talking about what I’ve been doing at Assistly. Assistly is a customer support platform that allows companies to streamline all channels of customer interaction — traditional channels like email and phone, but also newer channels like Twitter and [...]

Hello!  My name is Katherine Maslyn; I’m True Ventures’ intern at Assistly this summer. I’m a rising senior at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.  I guess you could say that my interest in entrepreneurship began early on, at the age of 8, when I successfully sold my 4-year-old sister a piece of coral I [...]