Dissapointment

One of the two interns I decided to bring on was disallowed by his academic department. The department refused to give him academic credit interning for a company less than three years old. This is rather disappointing from one of Money.com's "10 Cool Colleges for Entrepreneurs." The university also recently submitted an application to the Kauffman Foundation for a grant to

"assist in developing the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation (ELI Institute). This Institute will unify the university's current approaches to stimulating entrepreneurial behavior on campus and throughout the extended community."

Shame the university's policies do not reflect its rhetoric.

Great Success!

I had the pleasure of speaking with two great candidates for the internship position I posted last week. I have decided to offer them both positions, and I have no doubt there will be plenty of interesting work for them. I will be working with them to develop both my current marketing strategy and other great ideas they come up with. Once they get up and rolling, you can look forward to blog entries from both Oana and Terence.

Further, I was introduced to an interesting resource yesterday, www.internzoo.com. This site allows employers to post internships for free and college students presumably peruse the postings and apply. It seems like a good idea, so I signed up and posted my internship on the site. I'll keep you posted on how well it works.

Craigslist, redux

Putting up the ad for an intern on the volunteer part of CL didn't really work out, so I gave in and posted it under the normal job listings. Since I'm looking for someone(s) with a variety of abilities and interests, I put it up in two categories at $25 each: business/mgmt jobs and marketing/advertising/PR jobs.

I'm not really happy that I had to spend money on this, but so go the costs of doing business. The irony of having to pay to post a listing on a job site while constructing a job site myself is not lost on me.

This is just one more thing I never really thought about in the past. In my mind, Craigslist was always a free, easy way to find roommates, sell something, or whatever. I suppose they need to make money somehow too, and they get their revenue from job postings.