Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

http://twitter.com/student4startup

http://students4startups.com

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Special Thanks

• UCLA, USC & Caltech

• Mike Gammarino

• John Shiple

• Chris To

• Jordan Mendler

• Many others

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Intro• Darren Rush

– CmpE – Georgia Tech

– Founder & CEO of Koders.com (Acquired 2008)

– Founder of PowCloud – Cloud-hosted Search platform

– twitter.com/darrenrush

• LA has rich history of software startup success

• Startups are the most exciting & challenging opportunities you will

find

• Great companies, smart students & grads here today

• 6 tips for your future in technology leadership

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

LA Startup Successes

• Quarterdeck

(IPO/Symantec)

• Norton Utilities (Symantec)

• Overture (IPO/Yahoo)

• Geocities

• Applied Semantics

(Google AdSense)

• LowerMyBills (Experian)

• PriceGrabber

• CitySearch

• ShopZilla

• Picasa (Google)

• MySpace (News Corp)

• eHarmony

• LegalZoom

• Hulu

• Many, many more…

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Next Generation of Startups

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Big Co. vs Startup

• Never Meet the

CEO

• Guaranteed to

meet the CEO

• Test a Feature • Build Feature(s)

• Projects may never

see light of day

• Projects launched

In Production

• Employee #13412 • Part of Core Team

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Skills & Technologies

• NoSQL

• Real-time/PubSub

• Analytics

• BigData

• Natural Language

Processing

• High Performance

Computing

• Search

• User Experience

• Agile/Scrum/XP

• Ad Optimization

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

6 Tips to Prepare for Future Tech

Leadership

1. Participate in the community (meetups)

2. Establish relationships early (while still in school)

3. Learn technology ACTUALLY being used

4. Contribute to Open Source – add it to your resume

5. Seek out Internships – part-time and summer

6. Learn about business too

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Next Steps

• Follow Us on Twitter

– http://twitter.com/student4startup

• Submit Your Resume

– http://students4startups.com

• Meet Startup Founders & Teams

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

Meet the Startups

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

• Cloud-hosted Platform for Lucene/SOLR Search

• Full-time & Summer Interns

• Skills: Ruby, Search, SOLR, NoSQL, UX

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

• Personal eCommerce for Women

• Full-time & Part-time Interns

• Skills: Smart

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

• Adsense for the real world.

• Full-time & Summer Interns, whatever

• Skills: Python, Tornado, MongoDB, Mobile Cloud

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

• Advanced marketing, tracking & media buying

• Full-time & Summer Interns

• Skills: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Cassandra,

Python

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

• Personal Genome Sequencing in the Cloud

• Full-time & Summer Interns

• Skills: Hadoop, Hbase, GWT, Statistics,

Algorithms

Tech Internships at Southern California Startups

• Mobile Entertainment Network

• Full-time & Summer Interns

• Skills: Perl, Javascript, WebKit, Java