The entire class went to Washington D.C. on October 21st and visited several businesses including Custom Ink., José Andrés Think Food Group, and AOL Fishbowl Labs. The trip was awesome and we met many enthusiastic entrepreneurs.
AOL Fishbowl Labs is a vibrant community for startup businesses. Vincent Wong's business MHelp Desk, an App-based field service management, is one of the companies in Fishbowl Labs. It was fun to listen to his entrepreneurial experiences in the pass; he sold chameleons for several years and used the money to buy his first car, a Lamborghini.
MHelp Desk is an app on people's phones and helps them with different kinds of managements, scheduling, and billing. Vincent and his event coordinator, Jacob Garlick, sell their product through phone. Everyday, they call hundreds of customers who may be interested in MHelp Desk, and say that they really enjoy what they do--dealing with people--and never consider this as working. From the conversations with Jacob, I found that he was really open-minded and had a lot of ideas. Later, Josh Okot, a student in our entrepreneurship class, even got a customer for them through phone.

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