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Every fall, Babson holds a meticulously coordinated rocket pitch event, where students get to pitch their businesses in 3 minutes or less to a constantly rotating audience that moves from room to room and pitch to pitch. It’s an iconic event that has become a staple at Babson. But why should current students have all…
As was recently announced, Babson has partnered with MassChallenge to provide its MBA students with hatchery space for their startups. As a student entrepreneur and participant in this program, I was asked to comment on my thoughts and experiences at MassChallenge so far at the March 3 event at the MassChallenge office. My perspective on…
I now understand and appreciate why marketers and product development people get more valuable with age. That’s because first hand experience in these fields is truly invaluable, and that’s because reality, as witnessed by such experience, is much different from logical conjecture, schoolbook material and what you intuitively think should happen. This is some stuff…
It was one of those days that you’re just not sure how to classify. On one hand, it’s excruciatingly tiring. You’re up at 7. You spend 7 hours on the road. You feed an unreasonable amount of quarters to perpetually expiring meters. You have 20 emails in your inbox that you can tell, by looking…
On October 29th, I pitched my fledgling startup Fetchmob.com at Babson’s annual Rocket Pitch event. Mine being a business that I had been working on for months now, I convinced myself I had no reason to be nervous. The event is not a make-or-break-you type of occasion; it is truly an opportunity for students to learn…
