Seeking Undergraduate Interns for Analytic Investment Bank Startup focused on Private Equity. Can be virtual.Open to current and recent BA/BS students. Prefer NY or Singapore location.

We are seeking 1-3 undergraduate interns who would like to be part of the founding team for an analytic investment bank startup, NavonPartners.com. We specialize in originating deals for private equity funds in private companies. We use quantitative analysis to source private companies. We use social media, data mining, and other non-traditional sources to pull in data about potential investments. Our process is modeled on the algorithmic, data-driven process used by quantitative hedge funds. We particularly value experience in crunching large and messy data sets.

This can be a virtual internship, but we prefer candidates based in New York and/or Singapore. This is an ideal project for a current or recently graduated student who is interested in learning more about private equity, venture capital, investment research, social media, and how to build a startup. The role is a minimum 10 hours/week during the school year, and full-time during the summer. Your hours are flexible.

We have 3 main roles open:
- Analytic/marketing/research. Requires business experience, broadly defined.
- Quantitative finance. Work experience in finance plus education in statistics, mathematical finance, or a related subject. Your primary role will be to help build out our algorithm to identify the capital needs of private and public companies.
- IT. Requires experience developing web applications. Particularly value experience in data scraping and in building apps that leverage the major social network APIs (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

We have strong testimonials from interns who have worked with us in the past.

BENEFITS
You will have ownership of your own projects and manage these projects from start to finish during the course of your internship.
+ Hours/work location: Flexible. Work at your convenience and your preferred hours from home, anywhere in the world.
+ Interact and learn from private equity investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, and other financial industry professionals.
+ Work with an experienced management team: two Harvard MBAs and alumni of major investment banks and strategy consulting firms.
+ Learn about social media, online networks, and social network analysis.
+ Get to know the New York/Singapore startup communities.
+ Class credit (if you have a professor who approves your participation, and/or if you can recycle this work for a class)
+ Significant creative input and flexibility.
+ Very positive references (if merited).
+ We have a strong track record of helping past interns win full-time roles at top firms, including in the past McKinsey, JP Morgan, Lazard, and UBS, as well as of course many startups.

COMPENSATION
+ We offer very generous benefits (above), but no cash compensation for current undergraduates.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Analyses you may work on include:
+ Launch of new products
+ Competitive profiling
+ Pricing options analysis
+ Business model research
+ Process improvement consulting
+ Research on regulatory environment
+ Financial model background research
+ Industry trend analysis
+ Business plan research
+ Other strategic initiatives

REQUIREMENTS
Our ideal candidate has experience in hedge funds, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and/or an operational or marketing role for an internet business. However, we are open to a broad range of candidates. Other pertinent experience includes: strategy consulting, research, working in IT.

We require:
+ Passion about our startup's vision.
+ Highly motivated self-starter who has a track record of continuous self-improvement, high achievement, and aggressiveness.
+ Strong analytical skills. High attention to detail.
+ Strong writing experience. Particularly value a high GPA in writing-dependent courses.
+ Familiarity with major online networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)

We also value:
+ Belief in the Edward Tufte school of communication.
+ Strong verbal communication/sales skills. Experience in debate, public speaking, and theatre is helpful.
+ Familiarity with startup environment

HOW TO APPLY
Contact via e-mail only; do not call. Save your resume in Microsoft Word format with the name "Last Name-First Name-Year.doc", e.g., "Hurd-Mark-2011.doc".

Include with your detailed resume:
+ Link to your LinkedIn profile
+ Dates/hours of availability
+ Business writing sample (from work or school)
+ Physical location. You can do all of the work on this project remotely. Include travel schedule.

Please make sure that you include all of the information that we request above, or we will not be able to consider your application. Please send resume and cover letter to Careers(@)navonpartners.com with "Undergraduate Intern" in the subject line.