•    Name of business: Roominate Marketing; http://www.roominatemarketing.com/

•    Mission: to help businesses grow and succeed with online marketing initiatives

•    Name(s): Charlie Scala, ’10, charlie@roominatemarketing.com and Henry O’Loughlin, ’10, henry@roominatemarketing.com

•    Launched: 2010

•    Initial Investment: about $1,000

•    Where: Hull, MA

•    Founder’s Past Life/Business: Henry and I were randomly assigned as roommates in our freshman year at Babson. We talked about starting something of our own throughout our four years at Babson and the opportunity came to fruition shortly after graduation.

•    How The Idea Began: Henry and I always wanted to start our own business, and the opportunity to become part of the online marketing revolution, helping businesses grow and succeed with new media and marketing initiatives was too good to pass up.

•    Favorite Thing about the Business: hanging out with my best friend every day

•    Worst Thing About the Business: hanging out with my best friend EVERY day

•    Biggest Challenge: Launching a consulting company without first having a job in the field

Boston Globe writes about student gardens, including the one at Babson, providing food for mind, body. Read about them here.

Where:  Ashland, Massachusetts

Founder:  Eric P. Bloom

Founder’s Past Life/Business: Eric P. Bloom is the president of Manager Mechanics LLC, which provides classroom-based training, online Web-based learning and one-on-one executive/manger mentoring. His company can be found on the Web at www.ManagerMechanics.com

Prior to his role at Manager Mechanics, Eric has been the senior technology officer at various companies, controlled multi-million dollar budgets, managed off shore resources, and led teams spread across multiple locations. He has been a senior executive at Monster Worldwide, Independence Investments, and Fidelity Investments.

He has also been an adjunct faculty member at Bentley College and Boston University and is the author of several computer and management books. Eric holds bachelor degrees in Accounting and Computer Information Systems from Bentley University and has an MBA from Babson College. He lives in Massachusetts.

How The Idea Began: The idea to start Manager Mechanics was initially based on the material contained with our book.

Initial Preparation to Germinate Idea: Our initial preparation included speaking with Human Resource professionals, trainers, senior managers and new managers to assure that we would be providing materials and instruction in the way that would be most valuable to our client companies and to the individuals receiving our training.

Favorite Thing about the Business: Our favorite thing about the business is helping future leaders and new managers be more successful at work.

Worst Thing About the Business: I can’t say that there is a worst thing. The best way I can answer this question is to say that I very goal oriented and with each company goal that is attained, two more goals seem to be created.

Biggest Challenge: Starting a new company in a slow economy is a real business challenge. Our hope is that through hard work, great people and high quality products that we can grow slowly during these tough economic times and be well positioned when the business environment improves.

This is a day in the life of Babson College First Year Dean Rob Major.

Among those featured in this video from the Boston waterfront home to startups, MassChallenge, is Babson graduate Candice Cabe and her biz Day2Night - convertible high heel shoes.

Undergraduate School Dean Dennis Hanno, the Undergraduate School staff and Biz E. Beaver introduce themselves to Babson’s newest students, the Class of 2014.

ICF partnered with the Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative as well as Babson, Wellesley and Dar Al-Hekma Colleges.

Decade Worldwide, the new multi-dimensional entertainment company, released “More About Nothing,” mixtape by Washington, D.C. rapper Wale at www.moreaboutnothing.com on August 3rd, 2010. Wale is best known for his songs “Pretty Girls” and “Chillin” featuring Lady Gaga released under Interscope Records.

Decade Worldwide, founded by Alexander Glassberg and Babson student Gabriel Schillinger, is a multi-dimensional entertainment company with offices in South Florida and New York City.

From Daily Grommet: “Andrew Kitzenberg was a student at Babson College when he started developing his idea for a wristband that conceals a 2 gigabyte USB storage drive for easy, anytime access to electronic files.”

Name of Business: GRETCHY (www.gretchy.com)

Founder: Britt M’06 and Gretchen Hackmann ‘08 ghackmann@gretchy.com

Mission: Glamorous, yet affordable designer wardrobes

Launching: August 1st, 2010

Favorite Thing About The Business: GRETCHY is an integration of fashion and technology, two exciting industries that are ever-changing.  I love that there is never a dull moment in this business and that I am constantly learning new things!

To see more, watch Gretchen on the local Fox 28 News.