{"id":65,"date":"2015-02-06T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2015\/02\/06\/entrepreneurship-and-skis-and-snow\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:02:00","slug":"entrepreneurship-and-skis-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2015\/02\/06\/entrepreneurship-and-skis-and-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship and Skis (and Snow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KdjylK-Dybk\/VNTYI4hIUqI\/AAAAAAAACGM\/-Z1hVAG0_nA\/s1600\/Parlor%2BVisit.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KdjylK-Dybk\/VNTYI4hIUqI\/AAAAAAAACGM\/-Z1hVAG0_nA\/s1600\/Parlor%2BVisit.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>Last week, following the city\u2019s first (but not last) snowstorm of the year, a mix of first- and second-year MBA students made the trip out to East Boston to visit Parlor. One of New England\u2019s only custom ski manufacturers, Parlor was founded by three former college classmates and ski team members (one of whom is a BU graduate). For the past six years they have been turning out custom designs, unique to each skier\u2019s preferences and terrain. Students had the chance to enjoy a few beers in the compact setup while learning about the challenges of starting a business from scratch, refining the manufacturing and design process, finding the proper marketing for their skis, and earning a profit and expanding their business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-SNjC0nw9--Y\/VNTYKBB8smI\/AAAAAAAACGU\/qzCiDGf2hkA\/s1600\/Parlor%2BSkis.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-SNjC0nw9--Y\/VNTYKBB8smI\/AAAAAAAACGU\/qzCiDGf2hkA\/s1600\/Parlor%2BSkis.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span><i>Photos Submitted by Cortney Tunis, 2015, PNP<\/i><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs7.addthis.com%2Fstatic%2Fbtn%2Flg-share-en.gif&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" height=\"16\" style=\"border: 0px none\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>&nbsp;<\/i> <\/span><!-- AddThis Button END --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, following the city\u2019s first (but not last) snowstorm of the year, a mix of first- and second-year MBA students made the trip out to East Boston to visit Parlor. One of New England\u2019s only custom ski manufacturers, Parlor was founded by three former college classmates and ski team members (one of whom is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,62,125],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}