Let’s get it started!!! (Hawken Project Blog #1)

 Hey there!

My name is Quinn Petersen and I just finished my last semester at Hawken Upper School. Although I’m excited to finally be done with tests and DBQs, I’m not quite done learning yet. I am embarking on a project of my own choice. For the next three weeks, I will be diving into the business world. This is something that I’m really excited about. In the fall, I took the entrepreneurship course at Hawken. I learned a lot and I loved the idea of being an entrepreneur. So much in fact that I actually declared that as my major at Indiana University, where they rank 4th in the nation for it. The final project in the course was to create our own business pitch, and my group and I actually came up with a pretty good idea. ESTIM8 is a planner app for college students that automatically schedules homework time based on teacher/student-based estimations for each assignment. Our concept is innovative and pretty handy, but there is a lot left to develop before we have a clear path to market. With that being said, my partner, Jalen, and I have arranged to spend our three weeks at Paragon Consulting in Landerhaven Corporate Center. Our mentor, John Ours, is the CEO there and he is extremely knowledgeable in the business world. As an aspiring entrepreneur, I hope that he will be able to guide us on our journey to becoming a real, functioning business. I believe that Jalen and I have the brain-power to actually get to a point where we could go to investors with our idea. Even if we don’t turn our big idea into something material in three weeks, hopefully we will learn a lot just through the process of trying and also seeing how the business world operates at Paragon. 

let’s get it started!

-Quinn Petersen 

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  1. Maria SteinerMay 13, 2022 at 6:39 AM

    Love that you are getting to work on something you care a lot about with guidance from knowledgeable professionals! Can't wait to see how your ideas evolve and take shape!

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