I think having an internship at a powerful company is a great way to open doors in the future; you just may not realize it now. I say if you can manage your com

I think having an internship at a powerful company is a great way to open doors in the future; you just may not realize it now. I say if you can manage your company AND intern at the same time, it's more than worth it. Being a young entrepreneur is never easy-but you'll find you can endure a hell of a lot more than you initially perceive. If best comes to best and your software takes off even more, create a particular limit to decide when you will drop the internship and focus 100% on the software. When you're making 5x from the software as your internship; when you are working 2x as much; etc. It's up to your needs and desires. The bottom line: Internships are meant to either teach you the ropes or to open doors. If you feel yours isn't doing either, then ditch it; you're not getting your effort's worth out of it. If it's at a huge company like mine was (NASA), then it's a sticky situation and you might want to stay the course just for the sake of resume-building.