Columbia Entrepreneurs: Who Are We?

1. Columbia Entrepreneurs: Who Are We? We are Retail: Red Flower was inspired to create a kind of beauty that is not easily bottled, one that focuses both on the internal and the external. Red flower launched nationally in 1999 at Barneys New York with six flower candles and two organic flower teas. The line has continued to evolve and grow to over a hundred products, including lotions, soaps and oils, each with the generosity of scent, health and environmental consciousness, performance and integrity which make red flower so innovative. Yael Alkalay ’97 redflower.com HappyBabyaddresses the need for nutritious and convenient alternatives to highly processed baby food. The company believes that baby's first meals should taste and look delicious—and nourish the baby's body. HappyBaby foods are fresh frozen, vegetarian, organic foods with socially conscious packaging. An organic cereal product line is also offered with probiotics for immune protection and DHA for brain and eye development.Shazi Visram ’04 happybabyfood.com Peeled Snacks believes that food starts out delicious and nutritious, and it doesn't need some machine to improve it, or engineering to perfect it. The product line offers large, easy-to-eat pieces of fruit and nuts providing a natural source of vitamins, minerals and fiber - with NO added sugar or fat. The nuts are dry roasted and lightly salted. And for chocolate lovers, Peeled Snacks uses the finest rich dark chocolate with 58% cacao in their Shock-olate variety. Noha Waibsnaider ’02 peeledsnacks.com Blow Styling Salon is a new concept in beauty services, a blow-dry bar, where customers can get well-priced, blow outs and other beauty services in a fun, hip atmosphere. The flagship salon is located in the Meatpacking district and second in mid town Manhattan. Blow also launched its own line of hair care products specifically formulated for blown dry hair. Julie Klingenberg Flakstad ’99 blowny.com

2. Pockit Rockit is a book that makes discovering music fun, fast and easy. Adapting the Zagat guide book approach to restaurants [“if you like x, try y”], PockitRockit uses artists you already do know to help turn you on to some of the most intriguing and relevant artists you don’t know yet. Ari Abramowitz ’00 pockitrockit.com Casauri is an online provider of designer laptop bags, laptop cases, sleeves, totes and ipod cases in stylish colors for men and women. Emily McHugh ’99 casauri.com Hill Country is Texas-style barbecue restaurant featuring a majestic bi-level 11,000 square feet space, with towering industrial-height ceilings, two full bars and capacity for 300-plus seated guests. Located in the Flatiron District area of New York City, Hill Country brings the Hill Country Barbecue Market experience to tourists and locals alike. Marc Glosserman ’06 hillcountryny.com Verterraproducts are thoughtfully and beautifully designed, adding a chic touch of nature to your table. Not only are they the most durable and versatile single-use product available, as you can use them to bake in the oven, store in the fridge, and reheat in the microwave, but also all-natural. VerTerra is made from fallen leaves, steam, heat and pressure. That’s it – no chemicals, no toxins, no worrying.Michael Dwork ’07 verterra.com SolematesHigh Heeler™ attaches easily to most stiletto and kitten heels. By increasing the surface area on the base of the heel, it reduces the pressure on this area and prevents the heel from sinking into grass or falling into cracks! Becca Brown’07 and Monica Murphy ’07 thesolemates.com

3. We are Manufacturing: Environmentally Conscious Organization, Inc., is a design, licensing, manufacturing, sub-contract management and logistics firm dedicated to improving outmoded, outdated and wasteful food packaging. Jennifer Wright ’09 ecoincorporated.com We are Media: YourTangois a multimedia company focused on intelligent talk on love and relationships for women ages 25-45. Whether the topic is relationships, fashion, careers, culture, stress, travel, home, or money, Tango approaches it from a unique point of view, offering a rich mix of expert advice, in-depth reporting, dramatic personal narrative, and entertaining opinion. Andrea Miller ’02 yourtango.com RightsGenie allows media buyers from around the world to search for all content types, including films, television shows, sports programming, recorded live events, original web content, books, and video games. RightsGenie will then track down the content owner and clear the right. Licensing content just got a lot easier. Josh Brody’10 rightsgenie.com We are Sports: Harlem Lanes is Upper Manhattan's most vibrant entertainment destination and premier lounge. Harlem Lanes is a duplex, 24 lane bowling and entertainment complex featuring a modern café, fully equipped sports bar and arcade, deluxe lounge, and private party room. Located off of Harlem's historic 125th Street, in the heart of uptown's commercial district, Harlem Lanes is far from the traditional bowling alley.Sharon Joseph ’02 harlemlanes.net

4. We are Technology: OlapicOlapic collects all your wedding guests' photos so you can organize, store, print, and share them in any way you'd like. Pau Sabria ’10, Luis Sanz’10, Jose De Cabo ’10 olapic.com Wikispaces is a website where groups of people can easily build and edit web pages together. A great community builder tool, Wikispaces is popular with friends, families, students, teachers, sports teams, community groups, book clubs, fan clubs, party organizers and wedding planners. Adam Frey ’05 wikispaces.com Payperksis an employee perks program that helps company transition to paperless pay. Arlyn Davich ’09 payperk.com Edit.comis the leading website maintenance service to small businesses. Edit.com helps small businesses use their websites more effectively by recommending the most appropriate and cost-effective options and offering free quotes to get them set up and working perfectly. Thousands of small businesses rely on Edit.com everyday. Steve Grushcow ’04 edit.com RightPedalis an interactive video car blog, featuring a tv-style show in which we test drive exciting automobiles in an educational and entertaining manner. Hootan Mahallati ’07 rightpedal.com We are Social Enterprise: Out2Play, Inc.  is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to building and refurbishing playgrounds throughout the New York City public school system.  With more than half of New York City elementary schools lacking playground access, Out2Play is implementing a large-scale, city-wide program to give New York City school children this much needed resource. Andrea Wenner ’05 out2play.org

5. Thorobird provides development, consulting, and fund management solutions to nonprofit organizations, private investors and hard-working tenants. Uniquely positioned in the affordable housing and distressed community real estate development industries, Thorobird focuses on communities in the New York metropolitan area that have greater than 10 thousand people per square mile and are in census tracts with poverty rates of at least 20%. Thomas Campbell ’09 thorobird.com Art for Refugees in Transition provides curriculum and training programs to engage both children and adults in refugee communities in visual, performing and creative arts drawn from their own cultures. These activities provide local and international relief institutions with tools to help refugee communities recover from the trauma, terror and dislocation of war. Sara Green ’01 artforrefugees.org We are International: Agora Partnerships is a community of development and investment professionals, volunteer consultants and entrepreneurs committed to launching and growing successful, socially-responsible businesses in emerging markets. Agora leverages investment in areas where inefficient capital markets and other formidable barriers to entrepreneurship have prevented talent from achieving its full potential. The organization provides emerging market entrepreneurs with the same arsenal of tools available to their counterparts in wealthy countries. Ben Powell ’05 agorapartnerships.org Teshkeel Media Group was founded to address the lack of development of positive, high-quality children's media in the Middle East region. Part of the company's vision is to create a stable of superheroes for all children based on Islamic culture. Teshkeel's flagship superhero property, The 99, debuted with a special issue in June 2006. Teshkeel also acquired exclusive licensing rights to publish several of the world's most popular comic book titles in Arabic including Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, Superman, Batman and the Archie group of characters. Naif Al-Mutawa ’03 the99.org

6. We are Education: Tabula Digita is an educational gaming company focused on delivering innovative and effective educational games to students and institutions. The games have all of the action adventure fun associated with mainstream games while simultaneously providing an efficient learning environment to better prepare students for high stakes exams. Tabula Digita’s games can be used as stand alone teaching programs or they can be used to support and enhance conventional teaching methods and materials. Ntiedo Etuk ’02 tabuladigita.com We are Transportation: Baboois a Geneva-based, European regional airline offering both passenger and cargo services. It currently serves the following destinations from Geneva: Florence, Lugano, Nice, Olbia, Prague, Valencia, and Venice. Julian Cook ’00 flybaboo.com We are Healthcare and Fitness: FSA-Storeis a website for Flexible Spending Accounts(FSA’s) that allows employees to spend and manage their FSA funds efficiently and with ease. Jeremy Miller’10 fsastore.com Physique 57, an internationally renowned fitness company, is committed to sculpting bodies and changing lives with challenging and invigorating ballet barre-based workouts. Physique 57 is a respected presence in the fitness industry with five studio locations - three in Manhattan, one in the Hamptons and one in Beverly Hills. The success of the studios is complemented by high fashion clothing boutiques, award-winning DVDs, partnerships with luxurious resorts, and a widely celebrated book, The Physique 57 Solution: The Groundbreaking 2-Week Plan for a Lean, Beautiful Body. Jennifer Maanavi ’00