Welcome to Illuminated, a biweekly curated newsletter featuring must-read content by Rice Ventures, Rice University’s student-led startup accelerator and entrepreneurship club. We’re aiming to become the BNOC (big name on campus) for anything and everything entrepreneurship at Rice. In this curated newsletter, you’ll find how RV operates, ways to engage in entrepreneurship at Rice, and insights into the Houston startup ecosystem. Please like this issue above if you’ve enjoyed reading! If you’ve been sent this email and you’re not a subscriber, you can join by clicking on the button below.
Finals season? You got this! (Except for those of y’all on the quarter system. You’ve been done, and we’re jealous). 😠 We’re hammering out those last exams, projects, papers, and presentations at Rice and cozying up for our extra-long winter break. Our Fall 2020 cohort has also wrapped their work up for the semester! We’ve gotten the final pitch decks and videos in to review, and our senior RV leadership is handing over the reins. Illuminated might be getting a new writer soon! Just like the winter days are at their shortest, we’re keeping the newsletter concise for y’all.
Rice Ventures Reports
Our dear friends over at Princeton, Prospect Student Ventures, dropped a 92-page guide on how to break into VC.
David Zhao dropped his guide into VC on Notion for your perusal.
Ollie Forsyth at Draper Esprit dropped his Twitter thread on breaking into VC! These “break into VC” guides are not the only ones we’ve shared in the newsletter! If you’re new to Illuminated, look through our older issues to see what we’ve shared.
Looking to hack next February? USC is hosting HackSC 2021, USC’s largest hackathon, and it’s entirely virtual! Their verticals this year are Person, Team, Customer, and Device. Apply now!
Internships:
We have a LOT for y’all this week. Polish up that resume and recruit a family member to do a mock interview with you. If you represent a company and want us to promote an open position, send us an email at team@riceventures.org.
Pinwheel Marketing Internship
Atomic Labs Summer 2021 Fellowship
Greycroft VC Investment Associate (full-time)
Nylas Summer 2021 Customer Success Internship
First Round Capital Community Internship
Newchip Accelerator MBA Internship
American Family Insurance VC Student Internship
Envision Accelerator Chief of Staff
Envision Accelerator Associate
Saturn Growth Operations Internship
JourneyOne Ventures VC Fellowship
SuperNode Ventures MBA Internship (see tweet)
What We’re Following:
The What We’re Following section of Illuminated has evolved into a “What Nafisa Wants to Promote” section. If you’d like to lodge a complaint, please send us more interesting things to put here! Your claim will be reviewed within 30 business days. Thank you for your patronage!
Check out Nafisa’s Muze thread about AR/VR!
Yet another one of Nafisa’s tweets, but we want to put it on the record that if a Venture Twins and Astro Twins collab ever becomes reality, it is thanks to her.
Hugo Amsellem’s Mapping the Creator Economy
Hugo defines what a creator is, created a map of 150+ companies with an Airtable chock-full of data, and next steps at ArmTheCreators.com. With the creator economy growing rapidly and investors peering over to see what’s going on, this and other analyses (like Sari Azout’s 48th issue of Check Your Pulse) are worth checking out!
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