The Skills That Define Your Career
Are Not Taught in a Classroom.
Entrepreneurship in Practice is a structured career accelerator embedding ambitious students and graduates inside real startups across the UK, Europe and the US — combining hands-on experience, world-class training, and a global network of founders.
Limited places per cohort · Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
The Problem
A degree is no longer enough.
You don't need another certificate. You need proof you can build, solve and ship — the one thing every founder, scaleup and Fortune 500 hiring manager is now screening for.
Graduates compete for the same corporate internships
CVs look identical without real startup experience
The skills employers want are not taught in lectures
The Programme
What is Entrepreneurship in Practice?
Everything you need to go from "no work experience" to "founder-vouched operator" — done-for-you matching, structured training, and a placement that starts in weeks.
Skills Academy
1 week of pre-internship training covering startup strategy, venture building, commercial growth and how to contribute from day one. Weekly live sessions continue throughout your placement.
Startup Placement
4 to 8 weeks embedded inside a real startup. Working directly with founders and senior teams on live challenges. Hosts across the UK, mainland Europe and the US.
Global Founder Network
Access to curated mentor sessions with founders and operators building businesses around the world. Speaker series featuring leaders across venture, technology and growth.
Career Accelerator Certificate
Complete the programme with a certificate from theInterna, a reference from your host startup and a portfolio of work experience to show employers.
Career Readiness
Skills employers actually measure
Every part of this programme is mapped to the NACE Career Readiness Competencies, the framework university career services and employers use to define what makes a graduate hireable. You will not just finish with a certificate. You will finish with evidence.
Career & Self-Development
Weekly check-ins and mentor feedback turn your placement into a record of growth you can talk about in interviews.
Communication
You will present your work to real founders, not submit assignments to a grader.
Critical Thinking
Startup problems do not come with instructions. You will scope, decide, and justify your approach.
Teamwork
You work inside a live startup team, across time zones, with real deadlines.
Leadership
You own a project end to end and are accountable for delivering it.
Professionalism
Real stakeholders, real standards. You will operate like a colleague, not a student.
Equity & Inclusion
You will collaborate with international teams and founders from markets different to your own.
Technology
You will use the actual tools startups run on, chosen by your track: Strategy & Operations, Product & Technology, or Commercial & Marketing.
NACE competency mapping available in full for university career services on request.
Pick Your Path
Choose Your Track
Matched to your background, interests and career goals.
Strategy & Operations
Work directly with founding teams on market research, business model development, operational processes and strategic planning.
Product & Technology
Contribute to live product and engineering work across software engineering, data science, AI and cybersecurity — plus user research, UX/UI design and agile delivery.
Commercial & Marketing
Support sales, lead generation, digital marketing campaigns, content creation and CRM management.
The Edge
Why Entrepreneurial Skills?
Whether you want to launch your own business…
Start with work experience inside a startup before you build your own.
Whether you want to join a scaleup…
Scaleups hire people who can move fast, think commercially and get things done.
Whether you want a corporate career…
The world's leading employers now screen for problem-solving, adaptability and commercial instinct — entrepreneurial skills.
The future belongs to people who can build things. Start here.
From Our Alumni
What participants say
Every placement is mentored, structured and referenced by a real founder. Here's what that feels like.
I stopped applying to job boards and started building a portfolio of work experience. Within two months I had a founder reference and interviews that finally went somewhere.
The placement matched me with a startup doing exactly what I wanted to learn. The weekly mentor sessions kept me accountable and the feedback was blunt in the best way.
The founder network is the part nobody else offers. Speaking with operators actually building companies changed how I think about my career.
Programme Investment
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Everything included. No hidden costs.
One fee. Everything included.
- Skills Academy (pre-internship training)
- 4–8 week real startup placement
- Weekly live sessions throughout
- Global Founder Network access
- Mentor & speaker series
- Certificate of completion
- Host startup founder reference
Applying starts with a short call with the theInterna team — no commitment required.
Have a discount code? Mention it when you apply and we will apply it before confirming your place.
Questions
Frequently Asked
Applying starts with a short call with the theInterna team — no commitment required.
Ready to build
something real?
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and places per cohort are limited. Apply now to book a short call with the theInterna team — we'll match you to the right track and host startup.
Apply NowNo commitment required on the call · Limited places per cohort.