Berkeley Haas MBAs Create Farmcation: Small Farming for Urbanites
Two MBAs who graduated this year from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley are turning their love for small farming and social enterprise into a business that will feed a growing trend – small farming for urbanites.
Farmcation, which will provide experiences for ‘guests’ such as volunteering, visits to small farms, and cooking classes using local ingredients, was formed in late 2015 by Caitlyn Toombs and Grace Lesser.
Summer Reading: 10 Essential Books for Entrepreneurs
It seems like not a day goes by without your social media feed being peppered with posts of the “I hate my boss/job” variety. If not posts from friends, then it’s a clickbait story about someone who never considered going into business for him or herself and then doing just that.
If the success of Gimlet Media’s StartUp podcast and last year’s Christmas hit Joy starring Jennifer Lawrence as Miracle Mop tycoon Joy Mangano are any indication, folks are feeling cramped, boxed-in, suffocated, and you-name-it by the rigid demands of 9-5 corporate culture and are actively seeking alternatives.
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Berkeley-Haas Instructors Join to Promote ‘America’s Greatest Makers’
The creators of reality TV programs “Shark Tank” and “The Voice” have now produced “America’s Greatest Makers”, which features two leading instructors from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (Berkeley-Haas).
The series debuted on April 5, 2016, and the participants spent time in San Francisco and Los Angeles to compete.
