BW Students, Alumni Showcase Entrepreneur Dreams in New Streaming Series
There are BW creative fingerprints all over a new streaming series that showcases young entrepreneurs from Northeast Ohio. Think "Shark Tank" without the big bucks or shark snark.
"Dream It, Do It" documents the challenges and successes of Northeast Ohio college student-entrepreneurs and is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium (EEC), an association of area universities that work to support entrepreneurship at the college level.
Ventures born at BW
Episode
one
of
"Dream
It,
Do
It"
(embedded
below)
features
interviews
with
not
one
but
three
BW-connected
entrepreneurs.
Kayla Webb '20, a BW early childhood education grad, shares how she authored and illustrated an empowering children's book, "The Show and Tell That Changed the World" (Mascot Books), as a BW student.
Her website, Planting Seeds of Truth, as well as supporting social media accounts were created over nights and weekends while she did her student teaching.
The episode also features a pair of BW grads collaborating on a venture that delivers fresh coffee from local roasters to doorsteps across the U.S. Kallan Hinkle '16 and Jake McConkey '13 discuss how they founded their subscription coffee service, Dripbox Co., and how they both got bitten by the entrepreneurship bug.
Both projects received support from BW's Center for Innovation and Growth (CIG) and BW LaunchNET. Webb's book project was supported, in part, by a $2,000 award from the Women for BW Giving Circle.
BW talent behind the scenes
A
former
junior
consultant
at
the
CIG,
Matt
Harris
'19
and
his
video
marketing
firm,
Blitz
Studios,
produced
the
"Dream
It,
Do
It"
series.
Harris
launched
Blitz
as
a
BW
student,
and
he
is
featured
in
episode
two.
BW's Digital Marketing Center (DMC) students are also behind the project with Meghan Oswald '21, a digital media design and digital marketing major, serving as art director for the series.
A team of DMC students, led by Isabella Schiavon '21, an arts management and marketing major, is managing the "Dream It, Do It" digital marketing account with EEC. Student entrepreneurs with video and content experience make up the rest of the team: arts management major Jordan Gallagher '21, marketing and accounting major Alyssa Williams '22 and digital marketing major Miranda Lyons '22.
Dr. Lori Long, BW's Burton D. Morgan Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies and business professor, serves as president of the board of the EEC, while Hannah Schlueter, BW LaunchNET program manager, is BW's member representative to the EEC. Professor Tim Marshall serves as a mentor and is faculty advisor to BW's DMC.
Access the full series as episodes are rolled out on EEC's YouTube Channel.