Tips on finding startups for internship

Hey so I don’t have a lot of experience in tech but I do have a fair bit of experience in looking for non tech roles. Here’s what worked for me:

1. Make a list of all the startup’s that you are interested in. All the names that you have heard of, any recently funded ones ( you can follow some good newsletters to keep a track).

2. Once you have this list, start making a list of potential POCs. College peers, alums etc ofc go in there. Just go on their LinkedIn page and see who all from your network work there and drop them a message.

3. If you don’t know anyone there, then try to find emails/LinkedIn accounts of people in the relevant department in the company.

4. See if you can get a warm intro I.e. uk someone who knows them. Else you’ll have to cold mail/message.

5. Now what has really worked for me is instead of the standard cold mail talking about myself and why I am an amazing person that they should hire, I talk about them, or specifically their industry. I talk about what I think of the industry, what trends excite me about it and where I think the industry is going. I talk about what direction should they take. Now of course this isn’t some insane advice but just shows that I have put in the effort to read up and know some things about the industry. A quick time saving tip is to send the same mail to all the startup’s in the same industry solving similar problems or for similar users. This does make the process a bit bearable and in the process I too gain an understanding across multiple industries.

Now I was primarily interested in non tech so this is what worked for me. Maybe you can devise a similar strategy for tech. Hope this helps!

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