Careers & Internships

Job placement starts the day you arrive. Your entrepreneurial advisor helps you with individual curriculum, specific extracurricular activities and industry contacts. Your advisor will work with the Career Management Center (CMC) to identify and realize career opportunities for entrepreneurial students.

If starting your own business is your focus, advice and assistance can be found in our Launch Program. Again, your entrepreneurial advisor will help you select the courses best suited to your goals.

Summer internships come from a wide variety of sources, including the Center's close affiliation with CED and SBTDC, CMC recruiting events, student programs such as VCIC® and Speaker Series, and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Board of Visitors and other UNC-Chapel Hill alumni.

The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Career Management Center work closely with each student to determine the type of summer internship which best fits each student's career goals. Below are two fellowship programs designed to connect students with entrepreneurial and venture capital opportunities:

• Carolina Entrepreneurial Fellows Program
  The Center works closely with the MBA Entrepreneurship Club to coordinate this fellowship program to match entrepreneurial students with local startups. Typically students work two days a week with one startup (perhaps their own), two days at another startup and each Friday on group projects. This 2/2/1 format gives students a broad entrepreneurial experience and exposure to the local startup community. Funding for the internships comes from the clients, the MBA Entrepreneurship Club, and the North Carolina Small Business Technology and Development Center.
• Carolina Venture Fellows (CVF)
  A unique opportunity for selected students at UNC Kenan-Flagler to work for a year in a venture capital firm. Inspired in part by the Kauffman Fellows Program, CVF is a highly competitive program that places selected students in a structured twelve-month apprenticeship with a venture capital firm. The venture fellow works part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer. Over twelve months, the venture fellow is involved in all facets of a venture firm: sourcing deals, structuring investments, assisting portfolio companies and fundraising.

Venture firms that have participated in CVF include:

• Intersouth Partners
• The Aurora Funds
• IDEA Fund Partners
• Southern Capitol Ventures
• SJF Ventures
• Hatteras Venture Partners
• Golden Pine Ventures
• Parish Capital
• Dogwood Equity
• A.M. Pappas & Associates
• Research Triangle Ventures
• Carrboro Capital
• Southeast Interactive Technology Funds