Burlington business incubator teaches student entrepreneurs at Middlebury College

The Middlebury Entrepreneurs class went to Burton to meet the snowboard company’s leaders and team members. Photo courtesy of Middlebury Innovation Hub Thirteen Middlebury College students are spending their January term learning about entrepreneurship from the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a Burlington business incubator. To qualify, each student must have a business of their own to promote. About a third of the students in this year’s class are generating revenue already, according to VCET president David Bradbury. Bradbury and vice president Sam Roach-Gerber teach the course, which is in its ninth year. One of the students, James Heath, is building a website called Dormplex that allows students to offer goods and services to others on their campus. Heath, a sophomore, said Tuesday he and his partners planned to launch a beta version of the website this week at the Claremont Colleges in California before launching it at Middlebury in February. (One of his partners attends Pitzer College, one of the seven Claremont Colleges.) Heath said he hopes the class teaches him some of the foundations of building a company. As part of the course, students go on field trips and work on their business plans. They are taught […]

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