{"id":2594,"date":"2014-09-20T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2014-09-20T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:49:06","slug":"internship-value-create-your-way-into-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/internship-value-create-your-way-into-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship. Value Create Your Way Into Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLF8p6dOYbVkwnyIOreOUGkPivgl0ldTJh\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is probably the tenth or 11th blog post you&#8217;ve read about my thoughts on &#8220;Getting an Internship the Entrepreneurial Way&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I launched that series of talks at Stanford by having students I previously mentored, mentor. What I mean is that &#8220;Do you really wanna hear me talk for two hours?&#8221; So I had students I previously taught guest lecture.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I just took the video.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This pattern comes up a lot in helping students with getting an internship:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;External Internship Without Permission&#8221;. By external, I mean doing work without being asked and without permission and without direction and from outside of the startup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, yes, you seemingly do random work. By &#8220;random&#8221;, I mean specific JB a way you don&#8217;t understand. Lets get into more specifics via the case study<\/div>\n<div>Tristan Walker<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You see he did some work<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/513369934693662720\">9\/20\/14, 9:51 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>10 of 9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#Internships\">#Internships<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LEfhC03MDa\">medium.com\/@drogier\/recru\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Interact with me via the Twitter app\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS\">here<\/a>\u00a0by retweeting this tweet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/513369182683930625\">9\/20\/14, 9:48 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>10 of 9<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HGWuQe9VuM\">betabeat.com\/2011\/07\/the-aw\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>So you do work before you get hired<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s very street smart<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">See Evan Reas for more<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\">See Andrew Bellay for more<\/div>\n<div>ENGR145 has free videos to move\u00a0you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang This is probably the tenth or 11th blog post you&#8217;ve read about my thoughts on &#8220;Getting an Internship the Entrepreneurial Way&#8221; I launched that series of talks at Stanford by having students I previously mentored, mentor. 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