Tag: Peer to peer

Accelerator: Food Entrepreneurship

By Antonette Ho | April 15, 2016

With resources like FoodSol on campus, it is no surprise that there are so many food entrepreneurs at Babson. There are many common themes we hear from food entrepreneurs in the Butler Venture Accelerator: how do I find a commercial kitchen? How can I get my food product on the shelf? What steps do I…

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Announcing Summer Venture Program in San Francisco!

By Babson San Francisco | February 3, 2016

This summer, we’re excited to launch Babson’s signature accelerator here at our San Francisco campus located in SoMa, the center of the start-up scene in SF. Within blocks of the campus are headquarters of some of the biggest names in tech, as well as a host of co-working spaces, accelerators, and VC firms, making San…

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Crowdfunding

By Antonette Ho | January 19, 2016

The following post is from Fifi Shi ’18, a Butler Venture Accelerator team member. The founders of Load & Road LLC, Kazu Kawanobe M’16 and Mayuresh Soni M’16, joined the Butler Venture Accelerator on December 3 to host a peer to peer session about crowdfunding. As this is quite a new way of fundraising, they…

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Prototyping and Product Development

By Antonette Ho | November 16, 2015

The following post is from Fifi Shi ’18, a Butler Venture Accelerator team member. “You can make a great prototype without an engineering background. For me, it was very helpful to work with engineers at the beginning to design a prototype, then to build it myself at the Artisan’s Asylum. Now I can drive the…

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Accepting First Credit Card Payment at Your New Business and Legal Structure

By Antonette Ho | November 13, 2015

The following post is from Jake Cho ’17, a Butler Venture Accelerator team member. On November 9, Max Miller ’16, president of Intelligent Payment Networks, shared his lesson learned from his experience in the transaction industry at a peer-to-peer session held by the Butler Venture Accelerator. Intelligent Payment Network consults and provides businesses with transaction…

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From Ideation to Execution

By Antonette Ho | October 23, 2015

The following post is from Fifi Shi ’18, a Butler Venture Accelerator team member. “Every year 350 million pairs of sports shoes are thrown away as they are no longer fit to use, while 1.2 billion people wake up without having any kind of foot wear whatsoever”. This fact inspired a young entrepreneur to start…

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How to get the most out a conference

By Yerim Kim | June 3, 2014

Lauren DiPerna M’ 15, one of the Summer Venture Program participants, shared what she learned from attending the 2014 CropLife America’s National Policy Conference in Washington DC at a peer to peer session on May 28. CropLife America is a trade association that represents more than 60 developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of crop protection…

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