By Yerim Kim | November 24, 2014
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…
By Daniel Qualls | October 16, 2014
First, the long title of this blog post (and GIF above) are taken from the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This post has nothing to do with Stanley Kubrick or nuclear war, but I thought “stop worrying and love vaporware” was a perfect…
By Antonette Ho | March 25, 2014
Post from SoYoon Jun ’14, founder of How To Marry: Joey Roth ‘14 used to be terrible at the videogame FIFA. International students at Babson would score on him goal after goal after goal. Which is why creating a strategy guide for the game seemed like a nearly impossible task. However, he knew somebody out…
By Antonette Ho | February 26, 2014
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…
By Joseph Draschil | April 13, 2012
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…