{"id":23727,"date":"2024-11-18T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=23727"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:10:03","slug":"internship-prepares-young-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/internship-prepares-young-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship Prepares Young Entrepreneur for Specialist Role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Kelvis Quaynor \u201925 has long thought he would like to be an entrepreneur, and an internship with Startup Zoo helped prepare him to pursue his goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quaynor completed a Community Building Internship (CBI) through the <a href=\"https:\/\/cce.kzoo.edu\/\">Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement<\/a> (CCE) during summer 2024, and Startup Zoo subsequently hired him as community engagement specialist for his last year at Kalamazoo College.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Engaging in this work has given me a good idea of the things I will need to put in place to be a better entrepreneur, when that time does come,\u201d Quaynor said. \u201cThat&#8217;s one way this internship has helped position me to accomplish my goals.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working at Startup Zoo, a hub for the Kalamazoo entrepreneurship community, has also helped Quaynor build his confidence, network and learn about the business world\u2014applying and reinforcing lessons from the classroom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne takeaway is definitely the fact that people in the business world are more open than I thought,\u201d Quaynor said. \u201cA lot of opportunities are out there for you, and if you jump on it, you might be able to capitalize. Another thing is that I&#8217;m capable of occupying certain spaces, which is something I&#8217;ve struggled with. I think COVID played a role, a lot of things played a role, being Black probably played a role as well. I got to see that I&#8217;m capable of doing things and occupying spaces in certain places.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of Quaynor\u2019s internship work with Startup Zoo involved contacting and connecting with entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the business community. That was challenging and surprising to Quaynor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Kelvis-Quaynor_l-600x722.jpg\" alt=\"Young entrepreneur Kelvis Quaynor\" class=\"wp-image-23728\" style=\"width:322px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Kelvis-Quaynor_l-600x722.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Kelvis-Quaynor_l-300x361.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Kelvis-Quaynor_l-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Kelvis-Quaynor_l-1276x1536.jpg 1276w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Kelvis-Quaynor_l-1701x2048.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An internship with Startup Zoo helped entrepreneur Kelvis Quaynor &#8217;25 secure a community engagement specialist role with the nonprofit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReaching out to people I didn\u2019t know was hard, because it\u2019s one thing when you\u2019re in front of someone and you can say, \u2018I like your shirt\u2019 or something, but when you\u2019ve never met someone, it\u2019s hard to establish a genuine connection,\u201d Quaynor said. \u201cIt surprised me how open people in the venture community were, though. I was reaching out to executives, some of the biggest venture funds in the state, and they would accept a connection on LinkedIn, and sometimes they would even reach out to me if they were going to be in Kalamazoo and say they would love to connect and see how we can help each other. A lot of people in the venture and entrepreneurial support organization space are good people trying to help. I didn&#8217;t know how that existed in the business world.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quaynor was also analyzing what other entrepreneurial support organizations were doing, researching business funds, and helping plan for the Southwest Michigan Entrepreneur Summit in September. An economics major from Seattle, Washington, Quaynor appreciated learning more about the resources that exist for businesses in Kalamazoo. Early on, he learned a lot from Carl Brown, executive director of Startup Zoo. As the internship progressed, he grew more independent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was hard in the beginning,\u201d Quaynor said. \u201cCarl would give me direction, but sometimes it would be things I had never done before. I hate to be a pest, so for me, if you told me what to do, it&#8217;s hard for me to then ask you how to do it. I feel like I should have the tools to be able to figure it out. He was super open, though, and every time I did have to ask, he was fine with that, and he would point me in the right direction.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCE\u2019s reflection dinners for K students working on CBIs helped Quaynor stay in touch with friends completing CBIs, make new friends and put into words what he was learning and experiencing at Startup Zoo. His reflections throughout the summer as well as his final project for the CCE prepared him for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/k-plan\/sip\/\">Senior Integrated Project<\/a> on the internship.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis internship is definitely going to help inform my decision on what I want to do post-Kalamazoo, because I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s next,\u201d Quaynor said. \u201cI&#8217;m just trying to finish my senior year the best way I can, academically and socially and all the good things. Recently, actually, I was thinking about potentially going to graduate school, which is something I never thought I&#8217;d do. 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