Name of business: Media Conversion and Protection, LLC.; www.mediacp.com
Mission: To offer the best in media conversion and customer service to all of our clients.
Began in: 2005
Revenues: $30,000
Initial Investment: $2,000
Broke Even: 1/2006
Where: Atlanta, GA   now in Babson Park, MA    This summer we will have locations in Boston, MA  Cape Elizabeth, ME; Charlotte, NC; New [...]

2005 MBA grad Flora huihui Low, founder of ahh! Gourmet, a San Francisco-based, lifestyle-centered food company, is now producing ahh! Express Healthful Gourmet Kits. This new category of at-home cooking kits includes specialty Asian-inspired sauces and spices that are pre-packaged for ease and convenience and that includes all natural, preservative-free ingredients.  The gourmet packs give [...]

MBA grad Mark Duffey's Everest Funeral Package, LLC (www.everestfuneral.com) has created the first-ever database of all funeral home prices in the U.S.
PriceFinder compares the cost of a funeral by funeral home anywhere in the U.S. Duffey compares the $29 report to those produced by Consumer Reports for consumer products or Edmunds.com for autos. 
PriceFinder rates [...]

              
Undergrad , Meredith McLeod Sears mmcleodsears1@babson.edu has organized a special Valentine's Day, all day tomorrow at Reynolds…check it out! 
Will you LOVE us? This Wednesday (Valentines Day) in Reynolds from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The idea of this event is to ask the Babson Community to love their brothers and sisters in Darfur [...]

                   
Name of business: Blu Sky Communications Corp.; www.bluskycommunications.com 
Mission: To provide companies of all sizes the ability to customize their phone system to their exacting needs while still saving them money.
Began: August 2006
Initial Investment: $10,000
Broke Even: 1 year
Where: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Founder: Brian Udebrock, CEO Budebrock@bluskycommunications.com
(248) 830-7538; Junior, Ugrad at Babson College
Employees: 6
Founder's Past Life/Business: [...]

Answer: at the Babson 2007 FME Business Fair in Knight Auditorium!
Yesterday afternoon (February 7th), 15 new businesses created and run by first-year students who are required to participate in the Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) course, displayed their products and services in Knight Auditorium.
A steady stream of people oohing and aahing at the displays [...]

          
MBA Alum Rich Brauman's The Little Pearl Caviar company held star status at the recent Golden Globe Awards.  His American caviar was enjoyed by celebs at the Lifetime Celebrity Retreat.  Barrie Lynn—The Cheese Impresario paired The Little Pearl Caviar with artisanal cheeses from the cheesemakers of Wisconsin. Celebrities like CSI Miami's Eva LaRue and [...]

The Babson Entrepreneurship Club for MBA students kicked off the new semester at their first '07 meeting, “Entrepreneurship 102″….a strong indicator of where they want to go. 
Faculty Director, Candi Brush says that BEC “Dives deeper into entrepreneurial topics and issues that may not always be covered in class.  Or, if something peaked interest in [...]