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Helping You Find Great Opportunities at the Best Startups View this email in your browser
ThinkB1G Advantage: Student Edition
We're focused on finding better and more creative ways to connect students with
career opportunities at startups and high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Feel
free to forward the below newsletter or share an online link if it can be a helpful
resource to students at your institution inquiring about such opportunities.
New Term, New Opportunities to Join a Startup!
We're all about better connecting you with internships, co-ops and entry level
positions at startups and high-growth companies. The next 45 days are prime time
for doing so. Here's how we can help:
1. Side/personal project get you jobs; here's how to go about it
2. Dozens of current openings at startups for students & upcoming grads
3. Entrepreneurial programs that can take you west this summer
4. Advice & insights to better prepare for the technical interview
5. Additional ThinkB1G resources to help you find the next big thing
Project-Based Experiences: Your Path for
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Standing Out
Startups love to see what you’ve built. Not only is it a way to showcase your
abilities and talents, it's also a key indicator that you’re passionate about your field.
Having a great GPA or being in the right student groups is not enough. For
startups, it’s about building things.
Take advantage of your time in college to build & assemble your portfolio of
project-based experiences (aka side projects, personal projects). Use your four
years (or longer) as an opportunity to deepen your practitioner's knowledge of a
certain area or experiment with new technologies. It is less about building
something successful and more about applying, experimenting, learning, and
growing.
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Academic projects count, but not nearly as much as personal ones. Startups are
more interested in what you do outside the classroom. It demonstrates that you're
intellectually curious and willing to invest personal time to solve problems and hone
your skill sets.
Where to get started? Pursue personal projects of interest that show you're
passionate about solving problems. Seek out the “hacker culture” or
entrepreneurial community on campus and get involved. Participate in hackathons.
Pick up new skills via sites like Khan Academy, Coursera or Udacity and then
apply them.
As examples, if you’re into software, build an iOS app, experiment with new
technologies, design a product that does something cool, contribute to an open
source project. For others, experiment with growth hacking projects, creatively
design a new user experience using wireframes, build a website for a local startup
or nonprofit, get experience with sales or business development. Build anything.
The next is to communicate what you’ve done. Here are some suggestions:
CS/Software Students. Get on GitHub as soon as you can. Post your code
and projects on a consistent basis. As many startups are huge advocates of
the open source software community, find open source projects that you
can work on and contribute to actively. It shows that you care and are
furthering the community.
Non-CS/Software Students. Use Seelio or a blogging tool to package and
describe the projects you’ve worked on. Use visuals where you can and
indicate your approach, outcomes, and what you’ve learned along the way.
It’s not so much about success or failure here. It’s about your thought
process, what you did & learned, and how you've developed your skills.
Finally, make it easy for startups to see what you’ve done. Include a prominent link
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to your GitHub repository or online portfolio on your resume and LinkedIn profile
(i.e., in the header of your resume). Briefly highlight your projects throughout.
Your project-based experience will best position you for opportunities at startups.
Take advantage of your time on campus to assemble a rich & diverse body of
work.
Openings for Students & Upcoming Grads
Want to land a role where you can have impact, make a difference, and be part of
something special. Here's a group of companies that are looking for YOU. Led by
visionary leaders with disruptive, game-changing products, they offer opportunities
to work with amazing teams on challenging projects and technologies.
BookBub - Cambridge, MA
BookBub is a rapidly growing, profitable ebook
discovery startup with millions of members. The
rise of digital publishing is altering the way books
are found, purchased, and read. Join us to tackle
these issues and to help readers discover great
books they’ll love.
Software Engineer (New Graduate)
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Cask - Palo Alto, CA
Cask lets any Java developer quickly and easily
build Hadoop and HBase applications that can be
instantly deployed on-premise or to the cloud. The
apps can be managed, monitored, and scaled
using a simple-to-use web dashboard.
Software Engineer - Internship
Software Engineer - New Grad
Clever - San Francisco, CA
1 in 6 schools in the US use Clever to manage
their learning applications. Clever makes it easy for
teachers to use software in the classroom.
Engineer Full Stack
Engineer Intern
Exablox - Sunnyvale, CA
Exablox is a storage startup that was formed to
bring enterprise class featured storage device
integrated with cloud management accessible to
small and medium businesses. We are developing
ground breaking technology in file systems and
cloud technologies.
Software Engineer (New Graduate) - Cloud
Service
Tools Developer
Software Development Engineer in Test
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Infrastructure Development Engineer -
Python/LAMP
Software Test Automation Engineer (Python) -
File Network Storage Systems
Hudl - Lincoln, NE or Boston, MA
Hudl helps teams connect around the video and
data they need to win with simple online
software. Coaches and athletes love us because
we make watching and analyzing video online so
damn easy.
Development Internship / Co-op
Imprivata - Lexington, MA
Imprivata is a leading provider of authentication
and access management solutions for the
healthcare industry.
QA Mobile Engineer (OneSign)
Software Engineer iOS (OneSign)
Software Engineering Intern (Research &
Discovery Group)
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LaunchSource - Boston, MA
LaunchSource equips college seniors and recent
grads with the necessary training & tools to land a
sales & business development position at a high-
growth technology company in Boston.
Business Development Associate Program
Marqeta - Emeryville, CA
Founded in 2010 Marqeta’s mission is to power the
future of money. We're a leading issuer processor
and program manager for card and mobile-based
payments programs.
Software Engineer Intern, Payments Platform
NuoDB - Cambridge, MA
NuoDB, the leader in webscale distributed
database technology, is redefining relational
database technology to tackle the multiple
challenges associated with cloud computing and
the rise of global application deployments.
Web Systems Engineer
Software Engineer Intern
Java Developer - Entry Level
Core/Engine Developer - Entry Level
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Panorama Education - Boston, MA
Panorama is a data analytics company focused on
K-12 education. Our mission is to help ensure
every student has great teachers, great schools,
and a great education.
Software Engineer
Pertino - Los Gatos, CA
Pertino is helping to reinvent networking for the
cloud era by leveraging the power of the cloud, the
dynamic nature of virtualization, and the agility of
software. It’s called cloud networking, and it’s the
most disruptive thing to happen to networking
since the Internet.
Software Engineer (Intern)
SwiftStack - San Francisco, CA
Infinite storage, impressively easy. We bring
simple management and extensive integration
facilities to a proven, scalable open-source core.
Software Engineer Intern / Co-op
Software Engineer New Grad
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Valore - Boston, MA
Valore offers innovative solutions that help
students pay less for their education. That means
cheaper textbooks, more affordable student loans,
resources that help graduates get debt-free faster,
and more.
Software Engineer (New Graduate)
Yieldmo - New York, NY
Yieldmo is saving the world from bad mobile ads.
We think ads should look great and work great. We
combine the best of design and data to invent new
formats, ruthlessly optimize them, and deliver
unprecedented results.
Java Engineer
Scala Engineer
More Opportunities for You
True Entrepreneur Corp (TEC)
The TEC program brings undergraduates from
across the country to the San Francisco Bay area
to spend the summer with their portfolio companies
and learn firsthand what it’s like to work at a
startup. Geared for students interested in
technology and startups, 2015 TEC Fellows must
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be members of the undergraduate classes of 2016
or 2017 and be eligible to work in the United
States. Deadline is January 31, 2015.
KPCB Product Fellows
Here's another way to jumpstart your career in
Silicon Valley. The KPCB Product Fellows
Program is open to outstanding undergraduate or
graduate students who will graduate from a U.S.
university with a degree in computer science,
engineering, mathematics, physics or fields related
to software development, as well as graduate
students in M.B.A programs. The deadline for
submissions is 11:59 pm PST on January 31,
2015.
Lightspeed Summer Fellowships
For student teams working on a startup,
Lightspeed Venture Partners offers summer
fellowships to support entrepreneurship and
innovation among highly motivated engineering
and CS students. Each selected team will receive
$5K per team and $10K per team member,
mentoring by one of Lightspeed’s investment
professionals, and office space in Menlo Park, CA.
Fellows are under no obligation to Lightspeed, and
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Lightspeed receives no equity as part of the
program. Applications for Round 2 will close on
March 15, 2015.
Preparing for the Technical Interview
Cleared that first hurdle for your dream job and don't know what to expect for the
technical interview? No worries, we're here to help. While every company can be
different, here are some of our companies sharing what to expect and how best to
prepare for the technical interview.
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