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Here’s How to Launch A Product Without Spending a Dime

Note: This post was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs This is the second article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a non-profit commercializing a product that helps the visually impaired recognize what they are looking at. Check out the first article here. After building the first prototype of ThirdEye (see…

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How We Launched ThirdEye in College To Help Visually Impaired People

Note: This article was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs. This is the first article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a non-profit organization commercializing a product that helps the visually impaired recognize what they are looking at. Think about what you did yesterday. Have something in mind?…

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Dropping Out Is Overrated: Why It’s Better To Start Up While You’re Still In School

Note: this post was originally published on FORBES in FORBES Entrepreneurs.  Since the beginning of my freshman year, I have been working on ThirdEye, a product that empowers visually impaired persons by telling them what they are looking at (see a demo here). Within nine months, even while being “full-time students” at Penn, our team was able to build…

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Leveraging Every One of Your Tuition Dollars for Your Startup

Note: This post was originally published in Wharton Entrepreneurship.   For the entirety of my freshman year, I worked on building a startup with a group of three other freshmen. Our big idea was ThirdEye: a product that empowers visually impaired persons by telling them what they are looking at. During our freshmen year, our team of…

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How Running A Startup Taught Me More Than School Ever Could

Note: This article was originally published in Forbes under Forbes Entrepreneurship. I just turned 19 and started my second year at the University of Pennsylvania; since the beginning of my freshman year, I’ve been running a startup called ThirdEye–a product that empowers visually impaired persons by telling them what’s in front of them–with a team of four Penn students. At…

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11 Reasons Why College Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur

Note: This article was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Leadership. Entrepreneurship is the millennial thing to do. We’re all familiar with the Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram stories, where 20-something college students somehow manage to build-up multi-billion dollar companies overnight. Of course, it’s not as simple as that. The public only sees the tip of…

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Who Needs the Apple Watch? This Startup Is Building Straps That Make Any Regular Watch ‘Smart’

Note: This Post Was Originally Published on the HuffingtonPost. By now, we have all heard of the “legendary” new Apple Watch. But will it really be that legendary? Ingenious marketing and even more groundbreaking products have allowed Apple to build a brand that carries an aura that consumers trust. There is no doubt that millions…

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The Key to Hustling: Have A Story

Note: This post was originally published on The Huffington Post by Rajat Bhageria. Everyone always says that the key to creating a successful company and then monetizing on it is to hustle. Hustle. Hustle. Hustle. But what exactly does that mean? How do you even get the opportunity to hustle to an investor? How do…

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An Interview With Seth Berkowitz | How the Founder of Insomnia has Revolutionized The College Experience Armed Only With Cookies

Note: This post was originally published on The Huffington Post by Rajat Bhageria. In his book Zero To One, Peter Thiel says that you should never open a restaurant since you’ll just be one fish in a large pond. And that makes sense. You’re probably not going to really “change the world” with a restaurant.…

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