23 Student Entrepreneur Teams Grow Businesses In Babson College Summer Venture Program

23 Student Entrepreneur Teams Grow Businesses In Babson College Summer Venture
Program

WELLESLEY, Ma., July 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty-three teams of
Babson College Undergraduate and MBA students have opted to skip vacation this
year, and spend 10 intensive weeks in Babson's Summer Venture Program to
strategize, shape, and accelerate their entrepreneurial businesses.

The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson -- organizer of the
pilot program -- was highly-selective in choosing the student entrepreneurs,
and offers an environment that will stimulate the fast and flexible mind of an
entrepreneur. Open work spaces allow teams to be close--but not too close--for
contagious motivation, networking with each other, and resource sharing.
Campus Housing provides them with around-the-clock opportunities to refine
their ventures.

Noon on Mondays is status update time when teams gather to share ideas and
communally solve the week's business challenge. Every Wednesday, a Babson
faculty member or business guest addresses students during a brown-bag lunch
discussion on a topic of importance. And on Demo Day--Wed., July 29th --
student entrepreneurs will formally present their business plans to VC, angel
investors, friends and family.

Babson College Summer Venture Program Companies (student emails available at
the end of this list.)

Undergrads

1. Name: Raul Pellerano
Company Name : BongoBing; www.bongobing.com
Company Description:
BongoBing is a technology company changing the way the world shops online by
making it easier, faster and more efficient via its proprietary web based
shopping platform which currently has millions of products.

2. Name: Alex Moazed
Company Name: Applico; www.applicollc.com
Company Description:
Applico is a mobile application development firm. They develop mobile
applications and also provide development services to customers. One of their
products, NYC Transit by Applico, is a Blackberry application that provides
train, bus, and ferry schedules users without network connections.

This application is under review by Blackberry and should be released soon.

3. Name: Alex Kravets
Company name: Zaang, Inc; www.zaang.com
Company Description:
Zaang is a social media platform that allows users to collaborate on any topic
- using virtually any type of media or content - and have an opportunity to
earn money doing so. The platform will gather users together around shared
interests while allowing them to monetize their content.

4. Name: Diane Melville
Company Name: ScholarPro
Company Description:
ScholarPro aims to innovate the application and distribution process of
scholarships and private financial aid within the United States private and
public educational system. This will be accomplished through an online portal
that allows students to apply for every scholarship in which they are eligible
with just a single click.

5. Name: Chris Jacobs
Company Name: Emergent Energy Group; www.emergentgroup.com
Company Description:
Emergent Energy Group Inc. is an alternative energy consulting, planning, and
development firm that specializes in wind power and solar power technologies.

6. Name: Martin Shen
Company Name: Trollsmash Design Studios; www.trollsmash.com
Company Description:
Trollsmash Design Studios is a web design business that focuses on start ups.
The focus this summer is a project called "litiq," a set of transparent tools
which can be used on any web page to transmit and portray information better.

7. Name: Fan Bi
Company Name: Blank Label; www.blank-label.com
Company Description:
Blank Label is a leading provider of custom, made-to-measure corporate attire
for college students. Currently their suits and shirts sell in Sydney, Atlanta
and Boston, and they are looking to expand one campus at a time, one city at a
time.

8. Name: Alec Bowers
Company Name: Diat Concepts, LLC.
Company Description:
Diat Concepts is a nutrition company that delivers its products primarily
through food. Our first product is Skini Mints, the world's first appetite
suppressing breath mint. Skini Mints eliminates the urge to eat, allowing one
to either eat less at meals or completely skip meals, depending on the number
of mints consumed.

9. Name: Evan Morkiawa
Company Name: Alight Learning; www.alightlearning.com
Company Description:
Alight Learning is a free software tool designed specifically for the middle
school context that stimulates personalized student learning.

10. Name: Alexander Debelov
Company Name: Crelligence Media; www.crelligence.com
Company Description:
Credillgence Media is a social media marketing company that specializes in
compensated consumer-generated media. This summer, the company is going to be
developing two concepts: ViralSkool, a creative community that rewards the
best contributors with monetary compensation, and Rentafilmmaker.com, the
future go to site for small businesses in need of a filmmaker in the Boston
area.

11. Name: Morgan Smith
Company Name: Capital Comfort
Company Description:
Capital Comfort sells high end mattress pads to students through online and
retail channels. This summer, Morgan plans on reinvigorating the business with
a new marketing plan and pricing structure.

12. Name: Mark Bollman
Company Name: Ball and Buck; www.ballandbuck.com
Company Description:
Ball and Buck's mission is to sustainably create all organic high quality
clothing for those who love being outside. Whether hiking the Appalachian
Trail, sailing off the Maine coast or hunting in Georgia, the company hopes
that consumers wear B&B clothing in good faith, with the knowledge that they
are not only helping the nature that surrounds them, but becoming part of it.

13. Name: John Gesimondo & Jacob Brady
Company name: Jmondo PC Rebirth LLC; http://jmondo.com/inprog/howitworks.html
Company Description:
Jmondo PC Rebirth is a computer service company that allows users to do a few
things: They can log on our website and get their computer fixed automatically
in 1 hour (which is licensed from another company), request support for their
technology via phone, or request on-site support if they live in the
Metro-West area.

14. Name: Enrico Palmerino
Company Name: ThinkLite; www.thinklite.net
Company Description:
ThinkLite offers residential home owners the ability to go green without the
green price tag. ThinkLite custom tailors highly efficient, state of the art
lighting that burns at a proper temperature and emits the proper amount of
lumens and light wavelength to most closely match the lighting currently
installed in homes. The light bulbs offered by ThinkLite are both economically
and aesthetically appealing.

15. Name: Rishad Mehta and Jacob Enyeart
Company Name: Club Portal
Company Description:
Our company aims to integrate the main aspects of the nightlife industry using
an online community and web application. We aim to provide streamline club
promotions and the ability to give clients an unbeatable online experience and
be the primary destination for the clubs, DJ's and event managers by giving
them access to the worldwide club community. By providing the ability to book
a table, buy tickets, download a DJ's music or be able to search for a venue
on the go.

16. Name: Andrew Kitzenberg
Company Name: Wandering Roots; www.TastyTrippin.com
Company Description:
Wandering Roots is a reseller of innovative products through online channels.
They focus on selling high margin products while maintaining as little owned
infrastructure for the business as possible, allowing them to market the
products in innovative ways.

17. Name: Nicholas Horvath & Marcello Mallegni
Company Name: IVD Media Incorporated
Company Description:
Guests want instant, interactive information available in the comfort of their
hotel rooms. IVD Media solves this problem by providing hotel guests with
direct interactive access to an online catalog of videos and information about
local restaurants, clubs, events and local attractions through their hotel
room television. These companies pay for advertising on the interactive
catalog.

Grads

1. Name: John Hilliar
Company Name: RetireLife; www.retirelife.net
Company Description:
Service providers pay to advertise and receive analytics about users who login
and search for retirement-related living products and services.

2. Name: Ben Saur
Company Name: RecipeKey; www.RecipeKey.com
Company Description:
Currently, the RecipeKey website allows users to find the common link between
seemingly unrelated ingredients in a user's kitchen in order to create a
delicious meal. RecipeKey gives users the ability to find recipes based on
ingredients in the user's virtual pantry. RecipeKey's goal is to create
strategic partnerships to interface the website with grocery stores. Through
these strategic partnerships, user pantries will be digitally updated after
each shopping trip.

3. Name: Rahul Sahni
Company Name: Fit in clouds; www.fitinclouds.com
Company Description:
Fit in clouds is a women's shoe company that specializes in light weight,
portable shoes that are small enough to fit into a tiny ladies purse. Women
who wear heels often complain of foot pain by the end of the night. The
alternatives available to them so far are walking barefoot or carrying a pair
of flip flops. Both of these options are unpractical, and this is where Fit in
clouds comes in. These shoes are comfortable, and at the end of the night,
when the pain from the heels gets unbearable, they take off their heels, and
put on their clouds.

4. Name: Alice Leung
Company Name: Top Sprouts; www.topsprouts.com
Company Description:
Top Sprouts partners with building owners to invest in their rooftop space. We
develop rooftop greenhouses to grow produce for urban consumers while
conserving energy and creating value for the building.

We are currently talking to 3 interested building owners to host the first
pilot project. Once confirmed, we will approach investors for the first round
of funding to conduct building surveys and determine the pilot site.

5. Name: Tom Lovett
Company Name: Banyan Buildings LLC
Company Description:
Banyan Buildings is a Commercial Real Estate advisory firm that provides
building owners with a comprehensive analysis and implementation plan for
converting existing buildings to sustainable "green" buildings. This includes
investigation of renewable energy potential and repositioning strategies to
reduce expenses and increase asset value.

6. Name: Juan Rincon
Company Name: Green Food Packaging LLC.
Company Description:
Due to the increasing global warming, ocean plastic debris and other
contamination concerns, there is a big tendency to use "green" environmental
friendly products. The food packaging Industry is not the exception; indeed,
because of health and food regulations this industry is highly sensitive to
this trend.

GFP is introducing a novel environmental friendly, food innocuous, thermal,
flexible packing line, which represents an affordable substitute product for
both the contaminant plastic food trays, and the (toxic, health dangerous and
highly contaminant) Styrofoam food trays, both of which are widely used to
pack all kind of precooked and frozen food, such as: meat, chicken, fish,
hamburgers, Chinese/Thai food, fries, etc.

Emails for all Teams

Emails: Names:

abowers2@babson.edu
Alec Bowers - Diat Concepts
adebelov1@babson.edu
Alex Debelov - www.crelligence.com
akravets1@babson.edu
Alex Kravetz - www.zaang.com
aleung1@babson.edu
Alice Leung - TopSprouts
amoazed1@babson.edu
Alex Moazed - www.applico.com
bcorum1@babson.edu
Ben Corum - www.recipekey.com
cjacobs1@babson.edu
Chris Jacobs - www.emergentenergy.com
dmelville1@babson.edu
Diane Melville - ScholarPro
epalmerino1@babson.edu
Enrico Palmerino - www.thinklite.com
evan.morikawa@students.olin.edu
Evan Morikawa - Alight Learning
fbi1@babson.edu
Fan Bi - www.blank-label.com
jgesimondo1@babson.edu
John Gesimondo - Jmondo PC Rebirth
jrincon1@babson.edu
Juan Rincon - Green Foods Packaging
mbollman1@babson.edu
Mark Bollman - www.BallandBuck.com
megan@retirelife.com
Megan Shea - www.retirelife.com
mikaela@bongobing.com
Mikaela Gillette - BongoBing
mmallegni1@babson.edu
Marc Mallegni - IVD Media
mshen1@babson.edu
Martin Shen - www.trollsmash.com
msmith2@babson.edu
Morgan Smith - Capital Comfort
nhorvath1@babson.edu
Nick Horvath - www.ivdmedia.com
rishadm@mac.com
Rishad Mehta - Club Portal
raul@bongobing.com
Raul Pellerano - www.BongoBing.com
rsahni1@babson.edu
Rahul Sahni - Fit In Clouds
tplovett@gmail.com
Tom Lovett - Banyan Buildings

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