Find a Team
> HBS students and non-HBS students: Register for the Team Building Mixer at HBS (focus on Energy & Clean Tech). Nov. 10, 6:00pm in Gallatin Lounge.
Register for the Team Building Mixer at MIT (focus on Info Tech & Internet Space). Nov. 18, 6:00pm at the MIT Stata Center, 4th floor "R&D" Pub, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge. <
Non-HBS students should send an email to teambuilding@hbs.edu with the following information: name, email, BRIEF description of idea, status, skills. Once the email is received, your information will be posted below.
For current HBS MBA students, the HBS Entrepreneur's Network at StudentBusinesses.com can help you find other HBS teams and teammates. On this website, if you have an idea but are looking to add to your team, you can register and post your business profile so that individuals can search and find you. You can also search individual profiles to find people who are looking to join a team. For those who do not have an idea but want to join a team, you can register your individual profile so that people with business ideas can find you. You can also use the Network to look for teams that you may want to join.
Name: Abhinav Shashank
Email: abhinavshashank+gmail.com
Idea: Our aim is to provide an ideal platform for Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SME's) to exchange business requirements, company profile, share experiences and get experts advice. It will also help them to identify and acquire latest innovations and technologies. It will also be a business bridge that will connect SME's with each other and improve their access within the corporate supply chains.
Status: Currently the plan is under a review by Confederation of Indian Industries.
Skills: Someone having a clear understanding of the SME sector needs.
Name: Elliott Small
Email: elliott+potentialdifference.com
Idea: Because we built a high tech all-electric demonstration car, we received an Exclusive License for patents and know-how for Rapid Battery Re-Charge Technology from a major university where it was demonstrated that even lead acid batteries can be recharged in as little as 15 minutes. Lithium ion time is projected to be 10 to 15 minutes. Battery life is not sacrificed, but actually increased. Our company has a significant opportunity in the growing $700 million industrial electric vehicle battery charger market for lead acid batteries and the large emerging electric automobile battery charging market for lithium ion batteries. Another opportunity is electric car sales via conversions or otherwise. Our demo car is one of very few running all-electric luxury 5 Passenger Sedans in the USA. The top speed is over 100 mph, and the range between charges is 140 miles. We used a brand new Acura TL as the chassis and body shell around an all-electric drive train that we built.
Status: We have been competitively selected for funding by mentoring organizations in both Ohio and Nevada. We have completed an experimental prototype and independently repeated the university's rapid battery charging results. Our preliminary web site is http://potentialdifference.com where you can see a 10 second tire screeching video of our demo all-electric car.
Skills: I am the company chairman and founder and a graduate of Harvard College, A. B. Biochemical Sciences. We are collaborating with universities in Nevada and Ohio and with an electronics manufacturing and prototyping firm.
Name: John Wober
Email: jw+emobility.com
Idea: We are looking to market wireless products (Blackberrys, cellular phones, wireless modems) to consumers through an interactive web site. We will market through various direct to consumer channels such as affinity programs with employers (Fortune 5000). Consumers like a place where they can comparison shop products, see reviews, etc. We also plan to offer corporate discounts based on employer/university affiliation.
Status: I have launched a start up ecommerce company and currently in the process of negotiating contracts with national wireless carriers such as T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T.
Skills: I have over 12 years wireless experience in both retail and working directly for Fortune 50 telecom. We are looking for talented individuals that can take part in this project and benefit from a collaboration of this kind.
Name: Somak Halder
Email: somak_halder+yahoo.com
Idea: Our company will provide a producer profitability/viability for his forthcoming film, based on various attributes like existing projects which has similar genre, narratives and budgets. Apart from that it will also provide detailed analysis and strategy for successful motion picture and media projects. In other words it will be a one-stop-shop for providing financial potential, guidance and strategy to the producers, distributors and financiers of a film.
Status: The research is still going on. Looking for partners who has vivid imagination and strong enthusiasm. Also talking to potential investors as well.
Skills: As mentioned above looking for potential partners with creativity and dedication. Some experience in the movie industry is welcome but not mandatory. Should be a hard worker with passion for the movies.
Name: Ramakant Das
Email: Ramakant_das2010+pgp.isb.edu
Idea: To form a integrated value network(through internet and mobile) connecting Doctors, pharma shops, patients and other stakeholders of healthcare industry, to improve the healthcare system in emerging countries.
Status: Ideation and incorporation phase.
Skills: I am a mba student at Indian School of Business, and am looking for passionate individuals with creativity and willing to work toward this zillion dollar opportunity as well contributing to society. Any background is welcome.
Name: Yogesh Patel
Email: er.yogesh.2006+gmail.com
Idea: To provide new design for Human powered transportation vehicle (which numbers millions all over the world). This new design eases work of human.
Status: Ideation phase.
Skills: I am a software professional having rich experience of working with corporates based in India.
Name: Chan Chee Seng
Email: cheesengchan+gmail.com
Idea: Our platform will provide mobile real time translation services and online guide for both Chinese and foreign expats/ companies in China. Customer who face communication/ translation problem could simply dial up our "hotline" which provide multiligual human to human translation. The platform will start to implement in foreigner populated provinces (Shenzhen, Bejing and Shanghai). This business model could then be able to expand out to other provinces.
Status: Ideation phase and soft launched an expat guide in a small city www.gochangzhou.com.
Skills: More than 3 years experience in implementing oline projects and 2 years in mobile payment.
Name: Jerermy Smith
Email: jereguy8201+yahoo.com
Idea: EyeHearU Media, Inc. is an online talent agency that specializes in booking and distributing live performances for musicians via EyeHearU.com (version 1.0), which is an online music store that sells musicians' live performances to a diverse selection of venues. Using Version 1.0, EyeHearU Media, Inc. provides musicians an easy promotional structure to build exposure levels, fan bases, and the ability to be booked regularly. EyeHearU.com also gives entertainment venues an easy-to-flow site that has great and affordable music talent to select from when they have an event. Our company offers customers around the country who are currently finding and booking live entertainment by "word-of-mouth," a brand new service that allows users the ability to see, hear, and book live discounted entertainment with more variety and efficiency than ever before possible.
Status: EyeHearU Media, Inc. has merged two dependent industies through an online e-commerce platform to be used by talent buyers that are interested in filling empty dates on their calendar. We are different because we provide these consumers the ability to audition and book live performers with more variety and efficiency than ever before possible--all at a discounted price.
Name: Brendan Ryan
Email: ryanski1+aol.com
Idea: My idea is to use my company's business plan that I have already written with the help of Trump University's business on-line course, How To Write a Business Plan, taught by Prof. Paul Wimer. A business plan is a living, breathing work, and we can work to make it a great one as a team, when we get faculty assistance, and compete in the HBS Business Plan Competition together.
Status: The Status of me and my business plan is great, I am currently competing in the Rice University Business Plan Competition, and The NYU Stearn's Business School Business Plan Competition.
Skills: My skills include a private school education, entrepreneurial minded thinking skills, focusing skills, business plan writing skills, and flexibility.
Name: Tracy Rollins
Email: tracyrollins+mymail.roosevelt.edu
Idea: StraighFit offers the expertise that a proactive- oriented and market-opportunity seeking company needs to develop and enter new product distribution and new market segments in new markets. We intend to provide a number of necessary services to the business community and to the public.
Status: Business plan under further development.
Skills: I am a undergraduate student at Roosevelt University (chicago). Any background is welcome.