Andy Su

Internshipin is the latest company that I’ve worked on. It got started quite fast and I learned a lot from it. Here’s practically how it started.

Two weeks after moving into Berkeley, I met Jessica Mah. After finishing our discrete mathematics howework that day, we started talking about making a company. Pretty soon, we drew out an outline for internshipin and got started.

Within a week, we had a rough search and employer posting page ready. We then rented a $160 server from Softlayer and pumped out more of the code. With midterms and homework bogging us down, we took a month to make the first beta and released it to employers.

The main thing is publicity. We had like 6 postings signed up and 1 paying internship. It wasn’t until the techcrunch post that we actually had people on our site. The moral here - know lots of people like Jessica and if you can get them to write a post about your site, great things will happen.