1. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
http://twitter.com/student4startup
http://students4startups.com

2. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
Special Thanks
• UCLA, USC & Caltech
• Mike Gammarino
• John Shiple
• Chris To
• Jordan Mendler
• Many others

3. 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

4. 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…

5. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
Next Generation of Startups

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
Meet the Startups

11. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
• Cloud-hosted Platform for Lucene/SOLR Search
• Full-time & Summer Interns
• Skills: Ruby, Search, SOLR, NoSQL, UX

12. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
• Personal eCommerce for Women
• Full-time & Part-time Interns
• Skills: Smart

13. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
• Adsense for the real world.
• Full-time & Summer Interns, whatever
• Skills: Python, Tornado, MongoDB, Mobile Cloud

14. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
• Advanced marketing, tracking & media buying
• Full-time & Summer Interns
• Skills: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Cassandra,
Python

15. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
• Personal Genome Sequencing in the Cloud
• Full-time & Summer Interns
• Skills: Hadoop, Hbase, GWT, Statistics,
Algorithms

16. Tech Internships at Southern California Startups
• Mobile Entertainment Network
• Full-time & Summer Interns
• Skills: Perl, Javascript, WebKit, Java