I 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

One of the really great parts of the TEC program is the ability to connect with great entrepreneurs and thinkers throughout the summer. Many have founded the next big thing or on their way to release their product in the near future, in a unique area where they have identified either a problem or created [...]

As part of our learning experience here at True Ventures, they were kind enough to give us some reading material to peruse and study from. The first being the story of Clif Bar, and the success and failures that went along with creating a multi-million dollar company and another entitled the Four Steps to Epiphany. [...]

From the moment I accepted the opportunity with True Ventures to the end of my first week on the job, my view on entrepreneurship has been shaken twice. Before arriving I had a pretty good idea what being an entrepreneur was all about. I had personally gone through the idea generation phase, executing upon that [...]