Living Entrepreneurship Blog / Author: Babson Hatchery - page 5

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Update on Carewell

The following post is from Jonathan Mleczko ’17 & Lexi Smith, co-founders of Carewell, a fall 2016 hatchery business. Since Carewell’s first blog post we have released a newer, but not yet complete, version of Carewell to our wait list of users. It seems that our target audience, caregivers aged 50+, desire a more complete…

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Takeaways from Pitching to Investors

The following post is from Matthew Vega-Sanz ’19, co-founder of Lula, a fall 2016 hatchery business. Every entrepreneur that is preparing to pitch to investors or raise capital at some point in the future, should know the words of Richard Harroch, “It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and…

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Free Resources for Your Startup

The following post is from Sean O’Neill MBA’18, founder of Hangout, a fall 2016 hatchery business. Most startups don’t have an office. Some don’t even have a garage. Luckily for all of us, there are many free resources available online to help your team coordinate, plan, organize, and take action no matter where you are…

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The Problem of Procrastination (with few cures)

The following post is from Mohit Juneja MBA’18, co-founder of Meldtrend, a fall 2016 hatchery business. Professor Dan Ariely is author of  New York Times bestseller, Predictably Irrational (Pi).  He has shaped my thoughts with his insights of human behavior using experiments. In his book, he gives an example of the problem of procrastination and…

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Balancing Act

The following post is from Trevor Grode ’19, founder of Revive Hemp Foods, a fall 2016 hatchery business. Let’s try and make this quick because I have a lot to do. It’s currently 12:45 AM and this blog post is the second to last task I have to do today. Next week I have a…

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Getting Feedback from Customers

The following post is from Jonathan Mleczko ’17 & Lexi Smith , co-founders of Carewell, a fall 2016 hatchery business. Since the start of this school year, Carewell has made significant progress in terms of development. Now is the time to begin testing with live users that are not part of our families, which is…

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How Surfing Changed My Life

The following post is from Diego Pacheco M’16, co-founder of Cociel, a spring 2016 hatchery business. I would like to tell you the story on how surfing changed my life and how because of it, I’m graduating from my MBA at Babson. When I was 12 years old my uncle Rafael (One of the first…

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5 Businesses to Start from your College Dorm Room

The following post is from Samuel Sternweiler ’17, founder of JEWELv, a spring 2016 hatchery business. College is a magical time filled with new experiences, exploring yourself, making lifelong friendships, joining a billion clubs, and doing homework into the early AM hours. But one detail that often gets overlooked is how a student might pay…

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Four Mantras for Entrepreneurs

The following post is from Adam Martel M’17 and Richard Palmer M’16, co-founders of Gravyty, a spring 2016 hatchery business.  Four thoughts for the wary, ambitious, overworked, underpaid, overextended, underappreciated, overwhelmed, brilliant entrepreneur; no matter where you may be on your entrepreneurial adventure Starting a business is hard, really hard.  You lose friends, see your…

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Bringing Together Babson’s Education for Entrepreneurship

The following post is from Nicholas Valles ’18, founder of College C.A.M.P, a spring 2016 hatchery business.  Unlike most students at Babson College, I was unable to officially participate in the Foundations of Managerial Entrepreneurship course as a freshman.  Why?  Well, I am actually a transfer student from the University of Southern California.  This is…