Our Second Entrepreneurial Visit


Date: May 14th

Today was a fairly nonchalant day as we did some preliminary research in the morning while looking forward to the main event later in the day. The morning work was a culmination of earlier work on a international cash app named M-Pesa, as we finished a summary of the field visit for Laura’s upcoming Kenya conference. In addition to that we also looked into LunchSkins and the founder Kirsten Quigley, a local startup that we were going to visit later in the day. Kirsten was actually on the Today Show, so we watched her interview and it was cool to hear about the roller coaster ride she has been on since devoting herself to LunchSkins. Coincidently Bobby is dating Kirsten’s daughter so the two joined us at her house and sat in on our business talk with Kirsten. LunchSkins is a environmental company that makes reusable lunch baggies for sandwiches as well as single use baggies made of recyclable paper. The session was similar to that of Molly’s Bakeovers, and it has since occurred to me that no matter what business you are going into, there are going to be tough times and it takes real perseverance to own a startup. To end the day we went to a house of Bobby and Henry’s good friend Francesca and had dinner with her and her family for her birthday.

 Total Hours of Day: 7
Total Hours of Project: 79

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