May 2021Virtual Internship: Accounting Controller/Bookkeeping Experience

Repost to admit 1 previous applicant. This opportunity is not currently open to individuals beyond this specific applicant. Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1 student to assist the CEO (a prior CFO/Controller) in financial management including: bookkeeping, budgeting, and other tasks related to managing income, expenses, payroll, etc. in entrepreneurial/small business/personal bookkeeping settings. The student will use Quickbooks Online, and Google Suite (docs/sheets/etc.) While current clients are based in the United States, this internship will prepare students to be able to apply for jobs working for US or Canadian companies performing bookkeeping and/or assistant Controller roles. The primary focus for the student will be: to reconcile books to current, then use books to prepare updated budgets and financial statements, and review current methods of tracking data and procedures for managing remote bookkeeping. The company has a desire to assist in providing work-from home opportunities and further workforce development in bookkeeping and accounting, as a virtual/remote service. At the end of this internship, the student will have learned: Strategy - provide feedback on the remote bookkeeping experience, to assist in further development of a go-to-market strategy for growing the businesses' virtual accounting service offerings. Operations - How to manage monthly bookkeeping including multi-person input/review/closing. Be able to recommend process improvements or redesign processes in how bookkeeping and communication is managed, provide recommendations on how. to redesign payment and incentive structures for remote bookkeeping staff to improve employee/contractor performance and engagement. Finance - Design new/improved accounting processes; identify opportunities to streamline costs for staffing and/or expenses. The CEO/mentor also has experience identifying and prosecuting fraud, and may also answer questions regarding these issues, though auditing will not be part of this internship experience. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assisting in grant or loan application preparation, reporting, or other reporting or research related to business operations/finance. Business development of marketing materials and/or outreach related to obtaining additional bookkeeping clients. If this model of training and remote working is viable and the company is able to test a method of building and training a remote, scalable workforce and identify new clients, this internship may lead to a job offer with the organization, and at minimum, in a reference for future work, based on intern performance. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Whatsapp Text Slack Company Google Meet Email Student's primary contact : Alice Edwards, CEO, alice@theceowithin.me Secondary contact: Admin, office@theceowithin.me

May '21 Build first MVP of Growth Hacking Training & Project Management Platform

Positions available: 1 student Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for up to one student interested in working on growth hacking from a product development perspective of designing and developing products using iterative, MVP-oriented, user needs, feedback-loop oriented methods in a real-world startup environment, including experience working in an entreprenural startup, be part of launching a new product, or supporting startups, and learning to use the "growth hacking" mindset on marketing and developing and selling products and services. For more details about all that "Growth Hacking" entails, please refer to Wikipedia : Growth Hacking is a relatively new field in marketing focused on growth, coined by Sean Ellis in 2010, after using it to ignite breakout growth for Dropbox, LogMeIn, Eventbrite & Lookout. It started in relation to early-stage startups who need massive growth within a short time on tight budgets, and also reached bigger corporate companies. The goal is to rapidly test ideas that can improve the customer journey, and replicate and scale the ideas that work and modify or abandon the ones that don't before investing a lot of resources. A growth hacking team is made up of marketers, developers, engineers and product managers that specifically focus on building and engaging the user base of a business. Growth hacking is not just a tool for marketers. It can be applied to new product innovation and to the continuous improvement of products as well as to growing an existing customer base. As such, it’s equally useful to everyone from product developers, to engineers, to designers, to salespeople, The company founder is in the process of publishing an academic paper on a proprietary growth hacking aligned methodology, and has also identified that growth hacking is a missing component in many student's academic learning. In developing quality internship opportunities, Dr. Edwards has also identified that developing software aligned with these needs could help expand the use of her proprietary method while also creating a software-assisted mechanism to help companies better work with interns by providing a framework for the internship/learning experience. The intern or team will work with Dr. Edwards to build and launch the first minimum viable product (MVP) and learn to "think lean" when it comes to rapid prototyping and product launching. Time allowing, will also practice gathering and integrating user feedback in design process development. Student(s) should leave the internship at minimum with a live MVP product completed that can be added to their portfolio. A team could include students with complementary back-end development versus front-end design/UX and marketing skills, whereas a single individual would need to straddle these two roles with guidance from Dr. Edwards The individual will receive mentorship and instruction on all tasks to be accomplished via asynchronous and live virtual training from Dr. Edwards, who has 20+ years experience in entrepreneurship and small businesses and has managed marketing, growth, product planning, and sales growth of products in multiple product categories with a focus in technology-oriented startups & small businesses. Primary contact : Dr. Alice Vo Edwards, CEO, alice@theceowithin.me Secondary contact: Emily Neely, Administrative Assistant, emily@theceowithin.me

May Virtual Internship Opportunity: Accounting:Controller/Bookkeeping Experience

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity in the month of May for one student to assist the CEO (a prior CFO/Controller) in financial management including: bookkeeping, budgeting, and other tasks related to managing income, expenses, payroll, etc. in entrepreneurial/small business/personal bookkeeping settings. The student will use Quickbooks Online, and Google Suite (docs/sheets/etc.) While current clients are based in the United States, this internship will prepare students to be able to apply for jobs working for US or Canadian companies performing bookkeeping and/or assistant Controller roles. The primary focus for the student will be: to reconcile books to current, then use books to prepare updated budgets and financial statements, and review current methods of tracking data and procedures for managing remote bookkeeping. The company has a desire to assist in providing work-from home opportunities and further workforce development in bookkeeping and accounting, as a virtual/remote service. At the end of this internship, the student will have learned: Strategy - provide feedback on the remote bookkeeping experience, to assist in further development of a go-to-market strategy for growing the businesses' virtual accounting service offerings. Operations - How to manage monthly bookkeeping including multi-person input/review/closing. Be able to recommend process improvements or redesign processes in how bookkeeping and communication is managed, provide recommendations on how. to redesign payment and incentive structures for remote bookkeeping staff to improve employee/contractor performance and engagement. Finance - Design new/improved accounting processes; identify opportunities to streamline costs for staffing and/or expenses. The CEO/mentor also has experience identifying and prosecuting fraud, and may also answer questions regarding these issues, though auditing will not be part of this internship experience. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assisting in grant or loan application preparation, reporting, or other reporting or research related to business operations/finance. Business development of marketing materials and/or outreach related to obtaining additional bookkeeping clients. If this model of training and remote working is viable and the company is able to test a method of building and training a remote, scalable workforce and identify new clients, this internship may lead to a job offer with the organization, and at minimum, in a reference for future work, based on intern performance. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Whatsapp Text Slack Company Google Meet Email Student's primary contact : Alice Edwards, CEO, alice@theceowithin.me Secondary contact: Admin, office@theceowithin.me

May 2021 Virtual Internship (Business/Operations/Marketing/Accounting)

Positions available: 4 individual students 1) Statistics Decoded / Data Siren Product Management / Business Development / Grant Writing 1) PortiaHLTH / Thrive / The Lemonaid+Collective Product Management / Business Development / Grant Writing 1) TalentIQ / Job Buddy Product Management / Business Development / Grant Writing 1) The CEO Within Online Courses Product Management / Business Development & RFP / RFQ *These students will be paired with other students with programming, marketing, research, or accounting skills to support the team, but will act as the team lead. For the summer, each student is expected to work approximately 10-20 hours per week, approximately 9am to 1pm PST M-F - but some flexibility in this timing is possible. So an internship would be be 1-2 months long. Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for up to 4 students interested in learning about and applying Business/Operations/Marketing/Accounting knowledge in a real-world startup environment. Each student will be provided with assigned to one company and/or product that is pre-launch, beta, or early-phase. Based on student skills and abilities, they will be teamed up with other students to work with the CEO and product developers to work on activities related to that product. Student will act as an assistant product manager, helping the company move their assigned product or project forward as directed. This can include helping the company find build and launch the first minimum viable product (MVP), and test new ways to increase customer acquisition, to build a better first experience, to create new stream or revenue, to get users to return, and to create brand promoters. It may also involve doing user interviews, Q&A, or reaching out for and/or applying for financing related to the project. Building budgets and cost projections and reviewing or updating pitch decks, assisting in grant proposals, may also be required. In this role, an intern may personally develop or assist in the development of multiple marketing concepts and product iterations to rapidly test persuasive copy, email marketing, SEO, viral strategies, among other tools and techniques, with a goal of increasing conversion rates and achieving rapid growth of the user base. Student will leave the internship with multiple concrete items that can be included in their portfolio, such as: - Samples of materials created during the internship - New skills to add to their resume such as having made different types of content, and new skills with new technology platforms such as Wordpress, Pagemodo, SurveyMonkey, Jira, Asana, etc. The individual will receive mentorship and instruction on all tasks to be accomplished via asynchronous and live virtual training from Dr. Edwards, who has 20+ years experience in entrepreneurship and small businesses and has managed marketing, growth, product planning, and sales growth of products in multiple product categories with a focus in technology-oriented startups & small businesses. For some students, this may be a continuation of a prior internship to allow them to continue. Primary contact : Dr. Alice Vo Edwards, CEO, alice@theceowithin.me Secondary contact: Emily Neely, Administrative Assistant, emily@theceowithin.me