Return to Babson.edu
Return to Babson.edu | Contact Babson | Sitemap
        Search >>
Babson News Blog | Home
News from the Babson College Community
September, 2008

In time for the new school year, two students from Babson College, recently named the nation's top entrepreneurial college by U.S. News & World Report, today launched Knetwit.com — the only site that pays for downloads of intellectual property.
Initially geared towards college-age students and professors, Knetwit makes knowledge sharing simple, safe and profitable.
Through [...]

Name of business:    Neutrinos, LLC.
Mission :  Neutrinos seeks to capture opportunity from emerging softare platforms by rapidly exploring SDK boundaries.  Our focus is to develop a portfolio of in-house iPhone and iPod Touch applications that demonstrate superior software design to our clients.
Began: July, 2005
Where:  Portland, Oregon 
Founders:  Robert Banagale, David Peixotto
How The Idea Began: [...]

 
Name of business:  Adaptive Campus  - www.adaptivecampus.com
Mission:   In today's world, we all have to continue to adapt to the changing business world, reinventing ourselves as the economy changes and as our job pursuits change. Adaptive Campus is currently developing a set of services that will provide the glue that makes these transitions easier for [...]

Name of business:Zaang, LLC - www.zaang.com
Mission:  To create a community where users are rewarded for sharing quality content.
Began:  2007
Where:  Online
Founders:  Mike Markarian (mike@zaang.com), Alex Kravets (alex@zaang.com) and Dave Chenell (dave@zaang.com)
How The Idea Began:  We began as an electronics retailer offering special deals for college students.  We realized we needed to build a community [...]

“The Social Entrepreneurship by Design class at Babson College amalgamated scholarly exploration and visual communication,” according to one student who took the class last spring.
The course, open to Babson and Olin students, is taught by Prof. Heidi Neck.
Course description:
This course integrates user oriented collaborative design and entrepreneurship for the purpose of developing new products [...]