Building a Platform to Support New Moms Every Step of the Way, with Andrea Ippolito, Founder of SimpliFed

“However you decide to feed your baby, we’ve got your back,” says Andrea Ippolito, founder of SimpliFed, a virtual baby feeding support platform for new moms which works alongside the Affordable Care Act. Andrea has previously worked as a faculty member at Cornell University, a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House and was the co-founder of Smart Scheduling, an intelligent software used to schedule medical practices, which has been acquired by athenahealth. Come on in and meet Andrea!

• Entrepreneurship sucks. You have to love what you do.
• Find a peer mentor that is one step ahead of you to help guide you along your way. 
• You are in the driver’s seat to decide what company or organization you want to build.
• Supporting female entrepreneurs is not philanthropy. It’s just damn good business. 
• You are enough. 

Quotes

• “Get mentorship from that near-peer mentor that can walk through the terms so you don't get screwed. That's really important, real deal.” (38:22-38:28 | Andrea) 

• “Investing in and supporting women entrepreneurs is not philanthropy. It is just damn good business.” (42:46-42:54 | Andrea) 

• “We want healthy babies and we want healthy moms. And a healthy mom is one that has the freedom to choose how to feed her baby in the way that she wants that protects her physical and mental health.” (9:24-9:34 | Andrea)

Connect with Andrea Ippolito:

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/simplifedbaby

Website | https://www.simplifed.com/

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