Tag: Apps

Check out this new LinkedIn App for Grads!

By Arline MacCormack | June 6, 2016

Ada Yu recently (April 18, 2016) posted this on LinkedIn, and I thought it was worth sharing ! Introducing the LinkedIn Students App: Helping Soon-to-Be College Graduates Conquer Their Job Search Graduation is quickly approaching. Your job search is all consuming. What do you search for? What job options are best for you? Today, LinkedIn…

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You build your mobile app; what’s next? Discovery of your app

By Izi Aviyente | December 8, 2014

You built your app and now  you are waiting to be discovered from the 1 million apps in the app store. Similar to SEO, here comes ASO: AppStore Search Optimization. Surveys reveal that 47% of the users found the last app they found through app search. This certainly highlights the importance of having an app…

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Demystifying the App Development Process

By Yerim Kim | December 5, 2014

As part of last month’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Butler Venture Accelerator in collaboration with Alpha Software, Babson Entrepreneurship Club and Babson Tech Club to held a panel on demystifying the app development process. Izi Aviyente M’15, CTO of Date My Wardrobe, Gordon Fontenot, iOS Developer at Thoughtbot, Bob Moore, VP of Mobile Development at Alpha…

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Mobile First Product Development

By Yerim Kim | November 14, 2014

Izi Aviyente M’15, CTO of Date My Wardrobe, joined the Butler Venture Accelerator and shared his lesson learned from founding Date My Wardrobe at a peer to peer session a couple weeks ago. Date My Wardrobe is an online, localized marketplace for people to rent shoes, dress, and accessories to other fashionistas. Date My Wardrobe…

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Babson Celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week

By Antonette Ho | November 13, 2014

Today marks the start of Babson’s fifth celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). Since our first GEW on campus, we’ve grown the number of activities and initiatives on campus immensely. Our events on/off campus are part of the thousands of events in 140+ countries celebrating innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity during GEW. In its eighth year,…

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CrunchU: The Online Academy for Techies

By Caroline Hayes | October 2, 2013

This post was written by Natalie Cullings, Class of 2014. If the words coding, gamification, startup, design, or hacking mean something to you, then CrunchU, TechCrunch’s online learning academy, will definitely be of use to you. Don’t know much about the tech industry? Don’t worry–this online “university” is a great place to start. Modules are…

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building and incentivizing your team: a story of planned serendipity

By David Blutenthal | April 13, 2013

We’re a few short days away from launching Moodsnap in private beta, and as I sit here reflecting back on the journey from idea conception to now having a functioning (and dare I say compelling) application, I can’t help but feel grateful for the team that made it all possible.  I want to share with you how…

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