Tag: Startups

Experts talk Scaling Female Founders at eMerge Americas

To Scale Startups, Female Founders Think Beyond VC Despite a microscope being placed on the lack of capital received by women entrepreneurs, there has been no upward movement. But, as the challenges continue, women founders are blazing new paths toward startup success.

By Ashley Lucas

May 20, 2019

Tagged VC & Investing, Startups, Women's Leadership

Posted in Insights

Polina Raygorodskaya and Gustavo Trindade

How Solving 1 Problem Led to Millions in Revenue Wanderu founder Polina Raygorodskaya ’08 illustrated to the growing startup community of Miami how solving a problem led to more than $100 million in revenue.

By Bryan Lipiner

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Bryan Lipiner

Bryan Lipiner is the Senior Manager for Social Media and Content Marketing at Babson College. Since arriving at Babson in 2019, he has dramatically scaled engagement and followings on Babson’s social media channels, led award-winning social media campaigns, written for Babson Thought & Action, and more. Prior to Babson, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Record-Journal newspaper in central Connecticut. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University in 2015.

May 16, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Advice, Corporate Innovation, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Startups, Women's Leadership, VC & Investing

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Mega Mentoring

At the Founders Summit, Mentoring Goes Mega 100 alumni founders. 100 student entrepreneurs. 200 conversations. 1 afternoon. The Blank Center takes mentoring to the next level at Babson’s first Founders Summit.

By Alexandra Dunk

April 19, 2019

Tagged Household Names, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Alumni, Centennial, Startups

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

Tim DeMello

Ideas and Inspiration at Babson’s First Founders Summit Babson’s first Founder’s Summit was a day filled with inspiration, advice, and ideas from entrepreneurs of all kinds, including successful serial entrepreneur Tim DeMello ’81, P’18.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

April 17, 2019

Tagged Startups, Alumni, Advice

Posted in Community

B.E.T.A. Challenge

Babson Startups Win Big at B.E.T.A. Challenge More than $300,000 in cash and prizes was awarded at the esteemed Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® (B.E.T.A.) Challenge.

By Michael Chmura

April 16, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Class of 2020, Campus, Graduate, Social Innovation, Startups, Undergraduate

Posted in Community

Matthew Mottola

The Corporate Entrepreneur: Matthew Mottola at Microsoft Matthew Mottola MS’17 is obsessed with fixing both the way we work, and the way we feel about our work. He used his make-it-happen mindset to tackle this problem at Microsoft.

By Shannon Sweeny Curran

April 9, 2019

Tagged Corporate Innovation, Alumni, Graduate, Startups

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Michael Ioffe of Arist

Michael Ioffe’s Conversation Became a World-Changing Idea A series of conversations with students in Yemen left Michael Ioffe ’21 with an idea—that text messages could be used to bridge the digital learning access gap.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

April 8, 2019

Tagged Undergraduate, Startups

Posted in Community, Entrepreneurial Leadership

B.E.T.A Challenge 2019

One Day. All Access. Founders Summit 2019. Entrepreneurial power houses from Babson’s global community will come together for the first Founder’s Summit on Thursday, April 11.

By Brianna Radicioni

April 8, 2019

Tagged Alumni, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Startups

Posted in Community

Rachel Pardue

B.E.T.A. Challenge Semifinalists Pitch Their Startups Undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni pitched their businesses at the 2019 B.E.T.A. Challenge Semifinals, in hopes of ultimately competing for $300,000 in cash and in-kind services during the finals on Thursday, April 11.

By Brianna Radicioni

April 5, 2019

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Startups, Campus

Posted in Community

Shay Jaffar

Shay Gaafar MBA’19 — A Brand Born at Babson Shay Gaafar MBA’19 came to Babson to dive into the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Two years later, she’s leaving with her own brand.

By Shannon Sweeny Curran

April 1, 2019

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Graduate, Startups, Women-Led Entrepreneurship

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership