Anyone leveraging interns with respect to business development?

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June 29, 2025

by a professional from Yale University - School of Management in Bedford, NH, USA

I'm considering bringing in some interns to help with filling the top of the BD funnel. How are others leveraging intern help? Are they simply doing data aggregation in the background or does anyone let them make initial cold outreach and try to set meetings for you to follow up?
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from IESE Business School in Denver, CO, USA
We have had interns do direct outreach for us which did lead to some good meetings for us since they are personalized and not automated. However we ended up spending more time making sure they were actually doing the work than talking to people they would set up meetings for us with. A small team of good interns, with a decent CRM would solve this problem though
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from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portland, OR, USA
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