Shadow Dave McClure FinalistsJennifer Turliuk
Jennifer Turliuk is the Founder and President of the Young
Entrepreneurs' Club (www.youngentrepreneursclub.ca), a 10 week
launchpad program for young Canadian entrepreneurs. She has 3 years of
experience organizing Canada's largest international undergraduate
business plan competition, the Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition, most
recently as Co-Chair. Jennifer subsequently developed a concept for
a wireless internet startup while on exchange in Australia that led her
to place second in two international business plan competitions (in
Canada and Brazil) and be written up in the New York Times. She also
has her own DJing business ("DJ Turly" on Facebook), has DJ'd at many
events and nightclubs including one of the top ten black tie events in
the world (according to David Letterman), and enjoys kiteboarding and
salsa dancing in her spare time.
ApplicationStefano Bernardi
Stefano, a 24yo Italian computer engineering graduate, was most recently
an associate at dPixel, the leading italian seed venture capital firm. He
has now left and is moving to the valley this summer. He is an hacker at
heart and his most recent project is SaveMyInbox
[http://savemyinbox.com], a webapp that automatically saves gmail
attachments to your Dropbox, which now saved more than 400.000
attachments. He's involved with many other projects as a founder,
investor or advisor including Equeety.com, Coderloop.com, Iubenda.com,
HackFwd, HackItaly and The Sandbox Network. Stefano is getting married
next year.
Application
Crystal C. Yan
Crystal C. Yan (严晨) is @crystalcy, a 19 year old social entrepreneur
and designer. Currently a student at Amherst College, she's hoping to
shadow Dave to learn more about how to build entrepreneurial cultures in
educationally conservative areas and how entrepreneurship principles
startups use can apply to emerging market solutions. Crystal co-produced
What's Next: 25 Big Ideas from Gen-Yers Under 25, which features youth
contributors from Seattle to Sierra Leone, and she's hoping to learn
more about how to build a solution that addresses the critical role of
technology design for international development. In her free time, she
enjoys designing Ugandan recycled paper beads, practicing Chinese
calligraphy, and dancing (Kuchipudi-Indian classical dance, tango, and
Bollywood).
ApplicationCorey Hofferstein
Corey Hoffstein pursued his B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell
University and his M.S. in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon
University. During his final year at Cornell, he started Newfound
Research, a company that provides data from its proprietary research and
algorithms to investment professionals, driving their innovative
investing and asset allocation strategies. Third party assets associated
with these strategies have recently passed several billion dollars. He
lives and works in Boston, MA.
ApplicationMimi Newton
Mimi Newton is currently studying Entrepreneurship, Finance and Marketing
at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and turning
strategy into practice in her work with the passionate young
entrepreneurs at ShareSquare and CloudBot. Prior to starting b-school,
she was a the third team member at TRAINERmat, a Los Angeles based
startup, where she oversaw the launch of their at-home fitness products
into retailers nationwide (primarily wearing the hats of PR, product
development and logistics). Mimi loves soccer, yoga, sailing and hiking
and is a founding member of Active Kids Today, a social venture to
promote childhood participation in sports programs.
ApplicationRonald AngSiy
Ronald AngSiy is an aspiring entrepreneur that envisions a collegiate environment assisting and encouraging entrepreneurship. With multiple national public speaking awards and finance/research related internships, his confluence of technical and interpersonal expertise culminates in a distinctively unique skillset. He's ready to bring these necessary skills to the future of a maturing Silicon Valley. Ergo, he hopes to shadow under the light of Dave McClure so that one day he will know how to illuminate the futures of other entrepreneurs.
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The CompetitionOn April 1st, InternMatch launched an initiative to give interns unique insight into the startup and venture capital world, by offering the opportunity to shadow famed super-angel Dave McClure for 2 weeks. Hundreds of people applied for this life-changing opportunity. On May 1st, fifteen top candidates were selected and given 2 weeks to put together a social media campaign that explained why they were the right person for the job. The results were incredible. Ultimately, 6 candidates stood out and were selected as finalists by Dave and his team. Now each is featured on this page and is being given the opportunity to meet Dave in person or over Skype to explain why spending 14 days shadowing him could take their career and future to the next level. Enjoy these creative applications and be sure to tweet out your favorite using #killthecoverletter as your hashtag! |
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