by jackie | Apr 21, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Thoughts and Ideas
Thursday was a busy day for the Essmart team. As a President’s Challenge finalist, Rob and I were fortunate to attend a lunch with Professor Muhammad Yunus. Each finalist team got to briefly describe our start-up idea, and then the floor was open for questions....
by diana | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions, Thoughts and Ideas
Improved cooking stoves not going anywhere in rural Tamil Nadu, India. Why does Essmart exist? Why are we Essmart team members working on Essmart? These important questions were posed to some of our team members today. We had a Skype interview with an MIT IDEAS Global...
by jackie | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions
Part of our team had head shots and group shots taken for of the President’s Challenge introductory meeting. The professional ones should be up on the President’s Challenge site soon. Below are some of the shots we took ourselves. We had a ton of fun, and...
by diana | Apr 15, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge
Thanks for coming by, folks! Jackie and I had a great time meeting you all. I, for one, love MIT’s ID Night and ID Fair. They are amazing events where MIT’s International Development community can come together and share the amazing work they’re...
by Essmart | Apr 13, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions
Essmart is an HBS Business Plan Competition Social Venture Track Finalist! Jackie Stenson (@JackieStenson) and Rob Weiss did a fantastic job presenting before the judges during yesterday’s Semi-Finals. We’re happy to have gotten through that round, and...
by Essmart | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog, Cambridge, Competitions, Featured News
Together now: “Hi, Rob!” Awesome news! Essmart was just announced as one of the 10 Harvard i-Lab President’s Challenge finalists! Evidently, there were about 170 teams that entered the competition, so this is a pretty big deal for us. Thanks, Harvard...
