During my final week at Flat World, I was given the opportunity to see a little more of the software’s future trajectory. My work involved what Babson referred to as Entrepreneurship of All Kinds: the operational characteristics seemed to be in line with the financial services industry as a whole, but the tasks themselves did…
I hear this a lot. I think this question has a lot to do with self-belief and confidence. Nontechies complement techies! Remember sales trumps all in a business. Too many times people build products that do not solve problems and thus no one actually wants. This is essential for a company to survive and nontechies…
I would like to share a particular industry that I have researched with the company that I worked for during my summer internship. Carrier Tape is a supplementary product for the electronic packaging industry. The tapes are mainly used as protective packages for electronic components, integrated circuits, and other devices. The tape serves as not…
As the summer comes to a close, it is important to look back on the time spent working at your internship. I began reflecting on my time at MassChallenge when talking with my boss at lunch one-day last week. He asked if I felt my time with him at MassChallenge was worth giving up valuable…
This summer, I am interning at Soteria Networks, a start-up tech company based in Natick, MA as a business analyst intern. As a mentioned in previous homework, the small office allows me to interact with people from different departments. Last week, I invited David, the chief technician of the company to have lunch together. At…
This summer I’m interning at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, a leading tech accelerator in NYC where less than 2% of startups applying are accepted. I’m specifically working in depth with a startup called Woveon, where we help companies derive customer analytics across all their different communication channels with the help of AI and Machine Learning. While…
This summer I have written over 20,000 lines of code, worked 800+ hours, and met some truly incredible people. It is very easy to burn out or get lost in this round-the-clock summer. What kept me in check was knowing what my mentor Darwish calls your “north star.” This is the idea or goal that…
When beginning a project this summer, we did not write or touch a line of code on the first day. The first day spent creating wireframes, user mapping, and figuring out what we needed to code, but more importantly, what not to code. When working on apps and websites you can be working on them…
During my summer I was immersed in the insane hours of tech culture in San Francisco. We worked 12 hours a day, and that was considered a normal day. After getting in that mind set a 24-hour Hackathon seemed like a piece of cake. A couple of my colleagues and I decided to take the…
Airbnb, Lyft, Netflix. These companies are considered tech companies, but in reality, they are a hospitality, chauffeur, and entertainment companies that have been able to capitalize on the technological boom. These are just three of the countless “tech” companies that we spoke about at work today, but this same sentiment can be applied to almost…
