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Chris Jacobs ’10
Concentration
Entrepreneurship
Currently
Chief Card Giver, Honest Discounts, Boston, Massachusetts
What the World Needs from Entrepreneurs Today
Would-be entrepreneurs need to shut up. Way too many kids are talking, Tweeting, and boasting about their ideas but not getting stuff done.
My Proudest Moments
- Being named among America’s best young entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek in 2009.
- Being praised for 10 minutes by Babson President Len Schlesinger at graduation (in front of my family). Actually, I was a lousy student ... except in entrepreneurship.
How I Define Entrepreneurship
It’s about building a life that I want to live. Entrepreneurship is the ultimate source of creativity in business. I knew that when I was 9.