Newswise — The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College has accepted 18 student businesses into the Babson College Business Hatchery for the summer 2005 term. The Babson Hatchery provides rent-free space and resources to current students in order to support their efforts to launch successful businesses.
Babson Global Outreach through Entrepreneurship (Michael Pearlmutter, Jason Dombar, Cameron Johnson, Jon Franklin) is a philanthropic organization that exists for the purpose of enriching talented and motivated people worldwide with knowledge of entrepreneurship. BGOE's goal is to effectively enable underprivileged people around the globe to start successful businesses.
Blackboard Course Tracker (Ugrad) (Mike O'Connell, Christopher Mearn, Tom Fitzgerald) CourseTracker is a quick and easy online calendar that helps students become organized by consolidating all of their coursework through one interface in Blackboard.
BoozeCrews (Dan Hack, Clay Colarusso, Taline Badrikian, Fergal Jackson, Sue Diamond) Through the application of technology, BoozeCrews seeks to help bar owners increase productivity and help bar patrons avoid long service lines. BoozeCrews' core product is the "Bar-Friender," an ATM-like, self-service alcohol beverage mixing and dispensing machine complete with credit card processing.
Cellgame (Venkata Rami Tetali, Amit Dayal and Vijay Polsani) provides gaming and other entertainment related applications. It also provides portals that are WAP and 3G enabled and customized information to each customer in the form of messages.
Cellutions (Tansu Demirbilek, Murat Bicer)will provide mobile media and marketing services to businesses, content providers, and marketers through a complete and flexible mobile delivery technology. The company seeks to leverage the increasing popularity of mobile text messaging for implementing marketing services such as loyalty programs, promotions and sweepstakes.
Coskata Caviar (Rich Brauman, Miki Kusaka, Ande Guilleman, Eric Hayduk) "A spoonful of luxury." Offering the caviar experience through its line of caviar, fine foods, and accessories.
Go Sporty (Krista Donnelly, Sean McDonald, David Weisberg) is to get kids excited about playing sports by introducing sports to kids at an early age through a series of videos targeted at three age groups: ages 0-3, ages 3-6 and ages 6-9. These videos will be both entertaining and educational.
iAdvantage Technologies(Satish Kumar) is a global provider of IT Infrastructure Management Services and related IT Services. Its goal is to enable leading enterprises to achieve measurable revenue growth through increased utilization, optimized infrastructure, flexibility, higher return on existing investments, higher return on investment, and lower total cost of ownership. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts, iAdvantage uses low-risk Global Delivery Model from its integrated Global Command Center, Centers of Excellence, Global Solution Centers and Offices in US and India.
inanovate (David Arslanian & David Ure) provides research instruments with unchallenged technical performance to nanotechnology research and development communities. It not only guarantees its instruments will provide the highest quality research results, it also guarantees unprecedented levels of "total service."
iPresent Communications (Carmen Ferrara) offers an innovative approach to online training and communications that allows anyone to reach their audience with engaging multimedia presentations and collaborative "micro-sites." Its service addresses an organization's desire to communicate and train more effectively while improving the speed and efficiency in doing so.
Jet-Set Folios (IM Williams) is a sales and marketing service for exceptional commercial artists in the US and overseas.
Mobile Video Applications Development & Consulting (Frank Capria, Nick Katis) provides product design and business consulting to the mobile video industry. The founders' combination of mobile phone and television industry experience gives them a unique perspective in conceiving, designing and marketing emerging mobile video applications. Modern Menus (Joanna McFarlane) answers the question "What's for dinner?" by providing the customer with a personalized online menu planner. The customer needs only to log onto modernmenus.com and instantly receives a personalized menu plan, shopping list, and easy step by step instructions for meal preparation.
NextWorth (Andrew Walsh, David Chen, Mieka Wick) is a full-service provider of professional consignment services for consumers, businesses and non-profits. It helps customers identify and convert hidden value through eBay, Amazon and other channels and makes the selling process easy, profitable and fun.
P'kolino, Inc. (JB Schneider, Antonio Turco-Rivas) seeks to improve the playroom experience by developing multi-purpose products that grow with children through their stages of development. The products are also educational, fun, functional, safe and beautiful.
Seize the Day (Elizabeth Small)packages experiences as gifts, partnering with numerous suppliers throughout New England to offer gift-givers a variety of activities that they can purchase and give to a friend or loved one. Activities range from skydiving and hot air ballooning to sushi school and private yoga sessions. The Splendid Basket (Carol Michael) provides quality gourmet and spa items for the discerning gift giver. The core product is high-end gift baskets with sleek, contemporary designs that improve upon the industry standard.
True Apparel Company (Romney Evans, Jessica Arredondo, Brian Goss, Dmitriy Peregudov) is an online retail store that takes the frustration out of buying jeans by offering a wide product selection and customizing the experience for each shopper. The easy-to-use TrueJeans.com personal catalog matches customers with brand name jeans based on their unique body shape and style preferences.
Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit http://www.babson.edu.
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