The anticipation and excitement of expecting a child have increasingly been diminished by the stress of finding accessible, quality childcare. With no uniform situation or system, navigating childcare has become overwhelming and stressful for parents & guardians. Options vary from family, friends, nannies, in-home daycare & centers. There is no single platform to aid families. We are Flutter, an aggregate marketplace that balances a family’s constraints (time, money, & location) with all their available childcare options. Through flexible schedule building Flutter allows parents and guardians to have all their childcare options in one organized place.
Vendwell is revitalizing the way consumers purchase in an automated market. “We are whole”HEART”edly focused to provide quality locally sourced goods that nurture wellness. Delivered seamlessly by our intelligent eco system of vending machines and technology, that connects health-conscious consumers to curated handcrafted products, through our belief of transparency and sustainability.” Your Vendwell experience will be unique, personal, sustainable and overall better for you. We are leveraging behavioral science and emerging technologies to deliver curated products that consumers truly want. The problem is vending machines aren’t often thought of as a reliable channel for purchasing in the US. There’s often mechanical issues, blind purchasing and often viewed as a lack of fresh options. They are associated with being dusty brown machines in a corner that usually supplies mass produced junk. We are living in a fast world with a demand to be digitally connected. The purchasing trends of “health-conscious co…
be. Healthy is an intmate luxury wellness studio that creates and recreates experiences to achieve total health. The studio experiences focus on four key elements of total health: body, mind, nutrition, and medical. These experiences are designed to be fun, educational, personal, and social to enable members to achieve and sustain total health by looking healthy, feeling healthy, and living a balanced life. How it Works - A holistic approach to health combines diet, exercise, medical attention and emotional well being in a repeatable process. Through instruction, interaction, and involvement, participants are encouraged to take responsibility for their own wellbeing
Prototyping is one of design’s most powerful tools. Testing prototypes allows you to generate real data to aid decision making, instead of just guessing at potential outcomes. goProto is a platform for individuals, teams, start-ups and even mature companies to collaborate, solicit feedback and expertise, and test prototypes with real people in order to transform ideas into meaningful solutions. It’s a place to get your ideas dirty. We started our venture project with a simple goal: empower people to realize their ideas. We’re excited about making things happen, and we’re not alone. The last decade has seen tremendous growth in creativity, collaboration and online communities. In fact, 60% of Americans use social media, and of those, 59% interact with businesses on social networks. For example, Quirky, a collaborative product development site, was recently awarded $6 million in Series A funding and there are now over 150,000 iPhone apps in Apple’s App Store. goProto is the first step in our larger strategy …
Hearphile is not just another website hawking hearing aid batteries. It seeks to build a hearing appreciation movement. Hearphile is an online gathering place for hearing loss professionals and consumers. A space where individuals can find answers to protect the hearing they have, correct the hearing they’re losing, and connect with others in the hearing loss community. It is estimated that 22 million people could benefit from wearing hearing aids, yet only 20% of them do. In her prior research Kate found that resistance to purchasing hearing aids comes from cultural stigma, high price point and according to Consumer Reports, “a fragmented and confusing marketplace.” And yet the potential audience for hearing aids is booming: tech-savvy baby boomers are getting older, iPods are damaging younger people’s hearing and the number one disability returning veterans report is hearing loss. The industry continues to market primarily through the outdated method of placing brochures in doctor’s offices, sometimes off…
Parity, Participation, Progress A year long investigation into the unmet needs of working parents uncovered an overwhelming majority of both sexes who believe the structure of modern workplace has compromised the role of family and social capital overall. A third place between work and home, our venture project proposed a co-op dedicated to serving the needs of the family. Starting with a pre-school—a natural transition point in many families lives---through a physical meeting place where families can gather to an online concierge service that can help find a plumber or a tax accountant, we proposed pooling spending to capture more value from the approximately $3 trillion that women spend predominately on their families. Our financial model suggested that with starting with 150 families in year 1 we’d be able to staff and run the operations with nearly $2.5 M in profit within 5 years.
The Sansou Experience centers around the Ritual of You, providing experiences and resources that enable you to live a more fulfilled and effective life.The Sansou Experience supports your ability to manage the impact of life’s stressors by experiencing immersive environments based on centuries-old traditions of color and sound therapy, as well as meditation. With the help of your personal Experience Guide and life-coach consultations, the Sansou Experience enables you to enhance the path on which you currently travel and guides you to explore new paths. The Sansou Experience includes: Experience Advisor Consultation- to shape your time at Sansou. Reflection Garden- to stimulate your senses with subtle fragrances, colors and textures. Sound Immersive Environment- to leave stress behind with sound therapy. In addition to our core offerings, Sansou has access to a network of specialists, including a concierge service, which can make your life in the city truly a stress-free experience.
For my thesis project, I chose to work with a real earlystage technology startup company developing a multisided SaaS platform (software as a service). LineMonkey is a cloud-based point-of-sale and management system that runs in a Web-browser. The initial market for LineMonkey is quick-service restaurants. By moving all payment and management systems to cloudbased processes, LineMonkey does away with the current standard of expensive, obsolete and limiting hardware while opening up new opportunities for customers to place and pay for orders remotely using internet-equipped computers or smart-phones. Employees, likewise, process payments at the counter using inexpensive touch-screen computers that only need to support a web-browser. In addition to providing real-time revenue and management data, LineMonkey also provides location-based services, marketing and a social media channel. LineMonkey secured venture capital funding based on the financial model that I developed for them.
The Thread Union...slow fashion on demand bringing access to the future of fashion...made here! An enormous pool of talented fashion designers is challenged by the lack ofaccess to small-scale manufacturing, and the equipment needed to produce sample lines.These high barriers ofentry for start ups make it increasingly difficult to break into the business. New York’s Garment District is no longer a small designer’s paradise as fast fashion and getting the look for less have shrunk the manufacturing sector by 40% over the last 10 years. The vision of this project was a culmination of ideas from a fashion designer and educator, a specialist in 2D graphics management and production, and a number-cruncher. Together they helped turn this idea into a profitable reality. From 1-1000 garments, The Thread Union offers Slow Fashion on demand by providing tools for up-and-coming fashion designers to create, make, edit, produce, manage, and sell collections that are eco-efficient, meaningful, and authentic. The Thread Uni…
Sift. Making sense of your thoughts. For our senior thesis, we explored the intersection between the digital and physical worlds and how we think and work. While digital tools have transformed everything about the way we live our lives, the act of writing and sketching to communicate ideas quickly and emotively continues to be a huge part of how we work. But the act of working in both digital and physical mediums means that our ideas end-up scattered across all these mediums. Important nuggets are missed when we sit down to think and create critically because of this lack of unity. We designed Sift, a business concept capture in one place all of the pieces one has created in both the digital and physical worlds in one place. Through Sift, we want to introduce a whole new way of thinking and doing that’s natural and true to creative professionals so they can deliver the most thoughtful output possible. To communicate the concept behind Sift and its business potential, we created an illustrated business plan …