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My first internship was at the software company CIMCON Software, where I worked with CIMCON's professional software developer team in Ahmedabad, India to design their first android application, 21 CFR Part 11. This spreadsheet compliance mobile application got over 100 downloads in it's first 2 months and is still in commercial use today.
CIMCON later offered me an additional intern position my senior year at their United States headquarters. There I worked in the Marketing and Sales department sitting in with real clients and writing business reports analyzing their online presence and helping to improve the search-engine optimization for their primary website (cimcon.com)
DECA is a business club in which students from all over the world compete in business categories such as marketing, finance, management and much more. Being a participant in DECA all four years of my high-school, I formed invaluable friendships and got the opportunity to take coursework in Management, Marketing, and Economics. Competing primarily in Management, I was able to qualify to the National level on numerous occasions as well as get Top 10 on Role Play, have placed 1st in States, and 2nd at Regionals.
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I was even fortunate enough to win a $2,000 scholarship from the Young Entrepreneur Foundation and named by the NFIB as one of the top 100 young small business owners in the country for EmpowerTheBlind and the progress we made in aiding the impoverished blind.
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If you've never been afraid of someone stealing your idea, you've never truly been an entrepreneur. While most my attempts at innovation were meant to spread around the world beyond the borders of a patent, I do have experience writing and submitting patents, along with officially registering companies, and even 501c(3) non-profits.
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Inficap was my very first attempt at entrepreneurship. Having barely any business experience, I decided that publishing mobile apps to the google play store would be the easiest way to reach a large audience quickly. So, I taught myself how to code, got a google developer account and published a community service hours tracker, something that I myself had a very difficult time keeping track of. This application, though basic and buggy at first. also got over a 100 downloads and played a major role in getting me my first internship at CIMCON Software.
A 6-month long business plan competition, I went to Boston every weekend to participate in The Young Entrepreneur program. Starting my sophomore year of high-school this was my first non-academic experience with business. Elected CEO of my team, I came up with the business plan for Homelii, the common open source platform for all your smart home devices. Together, me and my team presented my idea in a 15 minute pitch to real entrepreneurs, placed 3rd in the competition, and won $2,000. I was even asked to be guest speaker the next year.
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MIT Launch was one of the most transformational programs I ever went through. Hosted by MIT, this summer entrepreneurship program acted as an incubator for high-school students to jumpstart their own companies.
In this program, I started Filelogue, a company dedicated to helping businesses sort their files, in which we developed a functional software prototype, contacted and met with real financial and consulting companies in Boston, and even got 4 letters of intent for purchase of our software. Taught by MIT alumni, Harvard alumni, and professors from the MIT Sloan School of Management, this is where I learned the formal process of entrepreneurship.
If I had to choose the single greatest accomplishment of my high school career, I would choose founding EmpowerTheBlind. EmpowerTheBlind is a government-registered 501c(3) non-profit that I started a year and a half ago in my junior year of high-school. For me, it was the culmination of all I'd been dedicated to learning about in business, along with my first real attempt to make an actual impact on the world.
Dedicated to making the largest impact with the smallest dollar donation, EmpowerTheBlind has partnered with 20x20x20 hospital clinics around the world and
raised over $10,000 , enough to fund hundreds of cataract surgeries for those who couldn't afford it otherwise. One surgery provides not only a lifetime of vision to an impoverished child, but gives hope to his entire family who in these developing nations depend on their children for survival.
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My path to entrepreneurship began as any good entrepreneur's path begins. With sales. From selling cookies as a cub scout to enterprise software as a teenager, I realized early on that business was my passion and finding new ways to innovate and solve problems was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Here is how I practiced -
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