Season 2, Episode 3 - Intern insiders: Why start out at a startup

On The Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller

With Clare Droney and Christian Hansen, Thinkternship student participants at UNC-Chapel Hill

Everything you needed to know about business you learned in .... the classroom? Not for today's entrepreneurial-minded students who see internships at startups as unique chances to learn what they can't by sitting in lecture halls – or even working in traditional corporate environments. In this episode, you’ll hear participants in the Thinkternship program at UNC-Chapel Hill share why young ventures are often the best testing grounds for students to put lessons learned in courses into practice. Find out how Carolina-affiliated startups offer student interns on-the-fly learning experiences that help them build new skills and set their resumes apart. And learn why the program’s focus on cross-disciplinary diversity – which matches students and company partners across a wide mix of academic majors and industries – results in creative win-wins for interns and the ventures who hire them.

Learn More About Thinkternship:
thinkternships.web.unc.edu/