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.
ERID’s H2x reduces residential water consumption through a single-point source greywater system for single family homes. Approaching both the new home and residential remodel sectors, we will focus initially on California in order to capitalize on opportunities for scale and market concentration. H2x is an innovative Laundry to Landscape (L2L) greywater system, which incorporates particle filtration, removal of excess salts, and other chemical compounds; as well as water quality testing and monitoring to allow users to safely redirect waste water from home washers to become a source of irrigation for lawns, gardens, and green spaces. The growth rate of water prices in the US is increasing faster than the rate of inflation (1.9%, USA 2018), making water utility costs for single family homes a pressing issue. Access, distribution, and consistent availability of freshwater is also putting pressure on municipalities to incorporate water consumption reduction and water reuse into their short and medium range pla…
Answers the questions: How do my identified strengths relate to my results? Is there a connection between them and my conflict style? Am I relying on my strengths toomuch? What other strengths might I need to develop? What did I learn about myself from my contacts? What surprised me the most about the feedback? What did I learn about myself with what is important to me?
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…
The workforce is becoming more diverse than ever, yet our workplace culture is failing to keep up. Proactive, values-driven and “trailblazing” HR professionals hungrily seek specialized trainings to tackle cultural change, but might never find the perfect lead or word-of-mouth recommendation. Meanwhile, talented trainers have the right message but can’t connect with potential customers. In a market dominated by corporate training companies, these independent entrepreneurs struggle for new business. In an industry first, we match Trailblazers with Trainers, creating partnerships to spark and sustain real change. Level Up grants access for Trailblazers and empowers them with the right tools to create truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplaces. Our Trainers grow their businesses and promote trainings on race, inclusion, equity, harassment and gender identity in ways that are dynamic, interactive and intersectional. We focus on Trailblazers in the non-profit sector (as well as B-corps and social enterpri…
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…
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.
… 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 to change the way businesses are designed and created. With market validated concepts and an active community, we can go beyond testing ideas to funding them. The real future of the goProto platform is a micro-funding model that allows members to invest in projects directly, giving people the opportunity to vote with their dollars and make a return on their investment. goProto will be the goto place for investors…
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.
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