Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Yale is Focusing on New Businesses

I recently went to the Angel Investors Forum & Yale Entrepreneurial Institute event to hear presentations by 3 student teams. They were well presented and innovative. Each team was passionate and had attracted mentors who had 20+ years of experience and who had invested in the businesses. A working prototype and/or revenue generating business was also the case with all three. Several students were planning to take a year off and pursue their ventures.

Roammeo.com was an event consolidator that had launched in New Haven with mobile applications. Booksavr.com was lowering the cost of books at colleges and offering seveal options for students and management systems for professors. A third project focused on cooling servers with a unique approach that had applied for several patents. Well done teams!