One day I was talking to Peter at Prism Venture about how he came to pick out Justin and I from the resumes he received through the MIT Externship Program. I believe it when Bong said they got a ton of applications for the externship since Venture Capital is the industry du jour amongst MBA’s and I couldn’t imagine an investment sector with wider appeal than consumer internet.
He said:
1) He wanted to find students with engineering/computer science backgrounds because yadda yadda… Sounds reasonable enough.
2) He looked favorably on consulting and startup experience: one to be presentable and ramp up in a short period of time. Two… startup experience is obviously directly related to a fund investing in early stage companies.
3) He filtered the remaining candidates by checking them out on FaceBook, LinkedIn, etc. Power users: good. No friends: bad. You’d be surprised at how many people didn’t even have a FaceBook account…
Thus, time spent on Facebook petting my elephant Kokiri… hey at least it got me this internship!
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hahahaha no way! i guess i underestimated the power of facebook. good thing i finally signed up…
wow cool!
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