Living Entrepreneurship Blog / Tag: Lean Startups

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Starting a Food Business

Annie Feldman M’16 and Marla Feldman, co-founders of EnerChi Bites, recently hosted a peer to peer session for the Butler Venture Accelerator. They shared their lessons learned from founding EnerChi Bites. EnerChi Bites is an emerging snack food company producing a healthy, tasty snack that comes in bite-sized portions. The Feldman sisters’ idea started as…

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3D Printing and Prototyping

Post from SoYoon Jun ’14, founder of How To Marry: Alfredo Gago M’12, CAM’14, the founder of Salamander’s Energy Solutions, came to visit Babson to demonstrate his newly purchased 3D printer during a peer-to-peer session organized by the Butler Venture Accelerator Program. Gago is originally from Venezuela and is a part of the Accelerator’s hatchery…

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Babson Wants Actionaries

Steve Blank calls it Customer Development. Eric Reis calls it the Lean Startup Methodology. Babson College calls it E.T.A. (Entrepreneurial Thought and Action). The premise is simple: Let’s stop kidding ourselves that we can predict how a new startup will perform in the marketplace. Prediction logic reigns supreme in many areas of business, but early stage startups is not…