Connects: From Classroom to Boardroom

CMU Alumni (TPR '16, SCS '07) Alison Alvarez will talk about the process of taking a project from a Tepper entrepreneurship course and building it into a company worth millions of dollars and serving dozens of large corporate customers. Her company, BlastPoint, creates persona driven analytics solutions that solve hard problems in predicting customer behavior.

Topics covered:

• Finding a co-founder
• Building a prototype
• Finding the right market
• Lessons learned in pricing
• Creating a network for fundraising