09/03/2026
Business development" sounds like a title you'd find on any corporate org chart. At an early-stage startup, it looks different.
This summer, several of our interns worked in business development and sales roles, building real strategy the startups actually needed done. Not busywork. Not shadowing.
Read through to meet them, see what they actually built, and hear directly from the supervisors they worked alongside.
Lou Munger, Harvard University, History Major
"Lou led a strategic project focused on evaluating the creation of a U.S. subsidiary for The Padel Lab. He developed a structured roadmap covering the key steps required to establish the entity, built a detailed financial model to assess the business case, and prepared a comprehensive presentation for the company's founders." - Juan Calderón, Sales Director at The Padel Lab, on Lou's work
Ryan Olson, University of Colorado Boulder, Mechanical Engineering Major
“Ryan worked on developing a complete go to market strategy for launching our Team Andy lead sourcing solution in the US broker market. The project included market research, customer discovery interviews, lead generation analysis, pricing research, competitive benchmarking, positioning, and management reporting." - Wilco Wijnbergen, CTO, infinitSpace
Kylie Schulman, Princeton University, Economics Major
“Kylie built CRM automation workflows that streamline processes across the Sales Department. For that, she worked closely with multiple departments to understand their needs and coordinate efforts, ensuring the automations she was building would actually solve real pain points for the Sales Team.”
- Ramón Jiménez, BDR Manager, Zepo Intelligence
