Hosting Accelerator

Posted by coffeyac on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 in Blog.

Students from the Vanderbilt Accelerator Summer Business Institute have made their home in the Wond’ry for the next two weeks. Accelerator is rigorous four-week consulting program in which students work in teams of 7-8 members to solve real world business problems for four companies in the Nashville area and conduct a financial evaluation of a major international company. The students then pitch their solutions in front of C-Level executives from each of the companies and, in many cases, see their solutions adopted and implemented. At the first day in the Wond’ry, Accelerator hosted Chris LoPresti, co-founder of Touchpoints, a consumer intelligence company, and co-founder of Bonnie, a recall monitoring system. As a graduate of the Accelerator program, Chris spoke to the lessons he’s learned as an entrepreneur in the seven years since participating in the program.

Jay Cavenaugh
Student Ambassador