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Intern 2019
We’re seeking a summer 2019 intern at Breakout List
Or more than one!
Your job will be to research and create idea mazes as a special projects intern at Breakout List this 2019 summer. You’ll be deeply exploring markets and problems to understand what customers in those markets most want, using idea mazes, jobs-to-be-done maps and other tools. Full-time and paid internship.
Why this job is important:
- There are lots of important problems in the world where the current solutions suck. We’d like to fix those.
What you’ll learn:
How to do a great idea maze
How to pick what to work on, in case you have interest in founding a company in the future yourself
How to approximate what customers want, before building something
Who you’ll work with:
- Breakout List founder. They’ve done angel investing, previously worked at Greylock, and have built various products with millions of users
Where you’ll do it:
- Remotely
What we’re doing:
- Exploring new spaces for opportunities to build businesses of three types: 1) businesses optimizing for positive impact 2) businesses optimizing for wealth creation 3) businesses optimizing for short-term cash-flow
Why we’re doing it:
- Because there are many opportunities to both create and capture massive value that’re waiting to be addressed!
How to apply:
Start doing the sample project and send us your progress (we wish we had a simpler application thing, but for us the best way to judge if you’ll be great at this is to see the start of actual work product)
Sample project: Start working on a jobs to be done map of any market that you choose (choice of market doesn’t matter, how well you do the map does), as described in one of the resources we’ll send you. This means figuring out what to ask, how to ask, who to ask it to, how to get in contact with them, etc. To start, send us an email at editor@breakoutlist.com and we’ll send you a set of resources for cold emailing and conducting interviews. Then, email us your progress updates.
