This is how I help.

Program Development

• Entrepreneurship training curriculum
• Community & resource development
• Grassroots training & engagement
• Prize & business plan competitions
• Global network of entrepreneurs & funding bodies

Experience with large to small organizations

Startup Coaching

• Problem identification & ideation
• Customer & user discovery
• MVP & Prototyping
• Pitch coaching
• Expert in Lean Startup & Human Centered Design

Virtual or 1 week in-person training 

Speaking & Facilitating

• Entrepreneurship workshops
• Finding a problem worth solving
• Sharing what's next in social entrepreneurship
• ​Facilitating dialogue about new food & agriculture trends​

The best way to learn is to interact with others

How can I help your startups?

Available for hire

 

Featured Work

Appointed as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering & Social Entrepreneurship program, where I coach student and faculty led projects.

As Program Director of Thought For Food, I grew the TFF Challenge to reach 140 different countries and catalyzed 30+ social enterprises.

I was hired by Happy Valley Launchbox powered by PNC Bank to cultivate the resources and connections needed to help Penn State startups thrive.

The Youth Assembly at the United Nations invited me to facilitate entrepreneurship workshops with their participants, which succesfully sparked numerous new enterprises.

I was selected to take part in three dot dash's prestigious mentorship program as an expert mentor with skills in agriculture technology, and food & ag based social enterprises.

Invited as an expert coach for the Ignite Retreat, a weekend retreat for students just beginning to launch their new social ventures.

I was an original co-founder of GreenTowers (now known as BEEcosystem), an agricultural design firm. There I led operations and business development.

Served as a ThinkImpact Scholar in rural Kenya, where I used Human Centered Design skills to facilitate the launch of a food preservation company.

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Jared is an inspirational human being and a leader in the space of social impact and entrepreneurship. He helped to build and scale our annual TFF Challenge, our Startup Bootcamp training program for early-stage startups, as well as our pipeline partnership network with leading food and ag accelerators and incubators. I hope that every purpose-driven entrepreneur out there has the opportunity to work with Jared, the value he delivers is immeasurable!

Christine Gould

Founder & CEO

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Thought For Food Foundation

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Jared perfectly balances professionalism with being down-to-earth and approachable. His experience living and starting a business in Africa gives him a peculiar perspective and understanding of what African startups are all about. He thinks outside the box and walked us through to solutions instead of just handing them out, which is what empowerment through instruction and mentoring is all about.

Albert Kure

Co-Founder

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Jared is a connector, someone who can speak easily and deeply with almost everyone he comes in contact with. In his leadership style, he challenges others in ways that work to bring out the best in people. I have always seen Jared is a natural team builder - and as co-founders in our startup he offered an additionally strong asset in the cohesiveness he delivered to our team, as well as the clarity his insights brought to our team's direction.

Dustin Betz

Founder & CEO

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BEEcosystem

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Get to know me.

• I have coached 40+ different startup teams, and have evaluated thousands of pitch submissions
• Combined, theses startups have received $20+ Million in funding, including the $1M Hult Prize
• Startups I have coached have been featured on the BBC, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Forbes!
• Check out this interview I had with the UN Environment
• I enjoy "slow travel" and have spent 1 month or more in 9 different countries, including Colombia, Kenya, and Portugal
• During one of these trips I lived in the Swiss Alps, taking care of goats!
• I am a Trustee of the State College, PA chapter of the Awesome Foundation
• One of my favorite things is to spend time in intentional communities, and I wrote some best practices here
• I hold an Executive Certificate in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University