Nick Rivera

My internship experience at Bquipped was amazing. During the 10 months I spent working for them, I learned so many great skills ranging from business analysis to project management, and also data analytics. I plan to transfer to these skills and leverage them in my full time career. I think that the experiences I have from Bquipped allowed me to…[Read more]

Something that I learned and developed through my internship was working effectively collaboratively and asking others for help when needed. In the classroom setting I feel like I need to work on independent activities by myself, and often try to figure everything out on my own to learn it properly. It differs from the workplace, where most of my…[Read more]

I agree with everyone else in the thread that it all comes down having a determined work ethic, and some serious time management skills. Personally, I like to break my work down by a weekly schedule, or a list of “to-do’s” and then from there take it day by day. Being able to break work down into what feels like more manageable bite size chunks is…[Read more]

Similar to what David mentioned in the previous post, I do agree that communication skills are at the forefront of business skills. While working in the startup environment, everything is fairly transparent, so it makes communication quick and efficient. On the flip side of that coin, you always have to be completely honest and truthful at all…[Read more]

When I started working for Bquipped – a very small Philadelphia based startup-company, there were a lot of things that I had to learn about the startup nature of business. The first thing I learned quickly was how dynamic work for a startup company can be. Coming from the extremely organized Temple MIS classroom setting, I guess I didn’t realize…[Read more]

Hey Guys!

This semester I will continue my internship with Bquipped, LLC. Bquipped is a local Philadelphia sports technology startup company which looks to take the guesswork out of the sports equipment search process. We utilize proprietary survey technology and data collection methods to survey athletes about their equipment. This information…[Read more]

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