Entrepreneurship Internship- An Oxymoron?

Over the past few months, I have embarked on a new journey of trying to find a summer internship. I started out by just searching online for Entrepreneurship internships in North Carolina. However, I quickly found that there really are very few explicit entrepreneurship internships, at least in my hometown. I decided to expand to other “business” fields, and found lots of marketing, sales, HR, supply chain management, and other internships. I realized that there was probably a reason there were so few entrepreneurship internships; people think of entrepreneurship as starting your own business, and internships involve working in some low-level capacity in someone else’s company. These two don’t go together, at least not in their traditional definitions. However, I did a few different interviews for sales and marketing internships, and when I told them I was an entrepreneurship major, they were very interested in that. I did two sales internship interviews, and in both of them, I talked about how learning about sales is a facet of learning about entrepreneurship, along with many other aspects of business.

Last week, I was talking to a woman at my gym back home about how I was looking for internships, but felt like I was at a disadvantage because I was applying for a lot of marketing and business internships but I thought they probably want people with those specific majors. I continued to tell this woman about how I love my major and what I am learning about ecommerce and sales. She said she loved how diverse the skillsets I was learning was, and she said she was working on a startup beer store about ten minutes away from my house. She offered me a job and said she would love to make it an entrepreneurship internship for me if she could. So, I guess there is such thing as an entrepreneurship internship 🙂