Student-Run Incubator gets Startups Off the Ground

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You're a student, and you've got an idea for a new app. It's handy. It's intuitive. It solves some commonplace problem you've encountered yourself too many times to count. This idea of yours is going to take off, you know it.

But how do you juggle schoolwork on top of learning the ins and outs of starting a business?

Luckily for Johns Hopkins students, there's a Hatchery for that.

The Hatchery is a new student-focused incubator run by and administered by—you guessed it—students. It provides mentorship, training, and other resources to tech startups, small businesses, and nonprofits in the earliest stages of their development. The incubator is overseen by Pava LaPere, a Johns Hopkins junior and an executive committee member of TCO Labs, an organization that works to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Johns Hopkins and get students involved in Baltimore's innovator community.