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Anish Patel: A Youth Entrepreneur Restoring Focus on the Road

By Lauren McDanell | Aug 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Anish Patel: A Youth Entrepreneur Restoring Focus on the Road
Anish Patel, youth entrepreneurship, SEED SPOT NEXT

By: Chessie Dahut, Content Curator and Media Management Intern Anish Patel is an energetic and team-oriented youth entrepreneur that participated in the pilot program of SEED SPOT Schools at Tesseract…

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How to Build an Engaging Landing Page

By Lauren McDanell | Aug 16, 2017 | Comments Off on How to Build an Engaging Landing Page
leah snider, hippogive, landing page

By: Leah Snider, Project Coordinator for HippoGive and Creative at Fast Rope Labs Did you know that 55% of visitors spend fewer than 15 seconds on your website? To combat…

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SEED SPOT’s Commitment to Inclusion: African American Boot Camp

By Lauren McDanell | Aug 11, 2017 | Comments Off on SEED SPOT’s Commitment to Inclusion: African American Boot Camp
African American Boot Camp, pitch party, diversity, inclusion

By: Bianca Buliga, Digital Marketing Manager Last week, SEED SPOT’s Phoenix office galvanized some serious community with our African American Boot Camp. After five days of studying business fundamentals, benefiting…

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Introducing Bianca Buliga, SEED SPOT’s Digital Marketing Manager

By Lauren McDanell | Aug 2, 2017 | Comments Off on Introducing Bianca Buliga, SEED SPOT’s Digital Marketing Manager
Bianca Buliga, Digital Marketing Manager, SEED SPOT

By: Chessie Dahut, Content Curator and Media Management Intern You’ve been reading her blog posts for over a year, and now it’s finally time to meet the woman behind the…

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3 Lessons to Learn from Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

By Lauren McDanell | Jul 27, 2017 | Comments Off on 3 Lessons to Learn from Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
entrepreneurs in emerging markets

By: C’pher Gresham, VP of SEED SPOT Communities Have you heard of the country of Benin? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. Benin is a country in West Africa with…

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Join the Movement: How to Bring SEED SPOT to Your School

By Lauren McDanell | Jul 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Join the Movement: How to Bring SEED SPOT to Your School
SEED SPOT Schools

By: Bianca Buliga, Digital Marketing Manager Did you know that 65% of the jobs elementary school students will be working in the future don’t exist yet? Current knowledge bases are…

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DC Demo Day: 9 Ventures Pitched in Front of 500+ Community Members!

By Lauren McDanell | Jul 14, 2017 | Comments Off on DC Demo Day: 9 Ventures Pitched in Front of 500+ Community Members!
SEED SPOT, DC, event, community, pitch, ventures, founders

By: Bianca Buliga, Digital Marketing Manager And just like that, D.C.’s inaugural Demo Day is over. Nine ventures began their journey last night, just steps away from the White House…

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Halona Foods: Making Delicious Snacks out of Food Fortunes

By Lauren McDanell | Jul 10, 2017 | Comments Off on Halona Foods: Making Delicious Snacks out of Food Fortunes
Halona Foods, food fortunes, delicious snacks, social entrepreneur

By: Avery Gordon, D.C. Community Cultivator Stephanie Westhelle has a passion for ugly fruits. While studying the environment in relation to tourism at the George Washington University School of Business,…

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Empowered To Run: Converting Voices into Candidates

By Lauren McDanell | Jul 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Empowered To Run: Converting Voices into Candidates
Empowered to Run, social entrepreneur, SEED SPOT, governance

By: Avery Gordon, D.C. Community Cultivator While working for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, Steve Sinha spent time in the field helping campaign volunteers organize in their own communities. While working…

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How to Pitch Your Venture to a Reporter

By Lauren McDanell | Jul 6, 2017 | Comments Off on How to Pitch Your Venture to a Reporter
how to pitch your venture to a reporter, pitch, venture, entrepreneurship

By: Bianca Buliga, Digital Marketing Manager Last week, you learned all about how to deliver your three-minute pitch in a way that would make hundred dollar bills rain from the…

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