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Founder Friday with Jon Carson

By Antonette Ho | February 29, 2016

The Blank Center’s Founder Friday series is continuing this week with Jon Carson ’79! Jon is the founder of BiddingForGood (BFG) which created an entirely new category of shopping, charitable commerce. BFG changed the way charity auction events are run, helping to raise over $300m for worthy causes while creating a charitable commerce marketplace with…

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Founder Friday with Peter Biro

By Antonette Ho | February 23, 2016

The Blank Center’s Founder Friday series is continuing this week with Peter Biro! Peter co-founded the Northeast’s largest franchise group for Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and Naked Pizza. Previously he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at General Catalyst Partners where he helped launch Icelandic data center company Verne Global, and founded The Cowper Group, a management…

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Greg Gomer’s Story

By Antonette Ho | February 22, 2016

The following post is from Ziyan Liu ’19, a Butler Venture Accelerator team member. We were honored to have Greg Gomer as our first speaker for Founder Fridays. Greg graduated from Babson in 2007 and after spending some time at Fidelity, Greg decided to start his own venture. In 2009, Greg became part of the…

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First Founder Friday at the Blank Center

By Antonette Ho | February 19, 2016

We meet founders all the time at the Blank Center. Students, alumni, friends of Babson. All of them have a story. Some are funny, some are sad, some should probably never be repeated. Today we are launching a new series called Founder Fridays. Hosted by the Blank Center, Founder Fridays is where you will get…

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