Meet Peek.com – A one-stop shop for travelers looking to discover and book amazing experiences. As classes come to a close and we start dreaming about summer adventures, don’t let the time consuming process of looking for and booking activities in your travel destinations become a reason to procrastinate. There are better things to push [...]
In 2009, John Agbaje (NA) and his brother Charles founded Central City Tower, an entertainment company devoted to creating original animated adventure stories. Avid artists and storytellers from a young age, the brothers had spent years dreaming up endless characters and worlds and wanted to formalize the intellectual property they had created. After getting their [...]
My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. As my classmates were rushing off to high-paying, high-powered jobs on Wall Street, I joined a Series A start-up with 30 employees as a product manager, making $65,000 per year – lower than my pre-MBA salary at management [...]
In the summer of 2011, David Klein had a problem, a problem shared by many MBAs at HBS: high-cost student loans. At the time, he was entering Wharton’s full-time MBA program, poised to start a company before graduating. He unwittingly happened upon the pain point, and ultimate idea, that would just nine months later cause him [...]
A few months ago, we had the idea to connect small and medium sized businesses with students from the top MBA programs in the world and launched HourlyNerd. The basic premise was simple: MBAs need money, have significant business acumen from previous jobs and school, want real-world experience, and have plenty of spare time. Meanwhile, [...]
The Harbus sat down with Jim Hong (OG) and Dan Braus (OG Partner) to discuss their new fantasy sports start-up, Draft the Madness. The Harbus: So… what is Draft the Madness? Dan: DTM is a new take on March Madness bracket pools that brings fantasy sports to the NCAA tournament. Harbus: That’s a very polished [...]
If you have watched or listened to music on YouTube recently then you have already, without knowing it, interacted with an InSITE company. RightsFlow, which Google acquired in 2011 to help manage royalty payments on its popular video site, is just one of a long list of successful start-ups to graduate from InSITE’s program. InSITE, [...]
Celebrities have personal shoppers. Thanks to giftplum, now you do too. giftplum is an online gift shopping “concierge” brought to you just in time for Santa season by Jono Schafler (OF), Krista Nylen (OF), and Noah King (Hill Holliday). The site went live the week of Black Friday. giftplum takes the stress and guesswork [...]
We’ve all heard of tweeting, but it’s time for HBS students to start flocking. BuildAFlock, a real-world social networking start-up co-founded by Cy Khormaee (OI), Deborah Hsieh (OI), and Shlomi Dinoor (UMass MBA), officially launched on November 29 as a private beta for the HBS community. BuildAFlock is an online platform that takes the administrative [...]
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