Hanno just returned from a trip to Ghana and Rwanda, where he and Babson students and faculty taught week-long entrepreneurship classes to high schoolers and led a businessplancompetition.
He pitched the idea of using game mechanics to motivate behavior to a Princeton BusinessPlancompetition and in the summer of 2008, he left to start SCVNGR based on that plan.
He tries to personally hear as many good business proposals as possible, grilling potential employees or partners about the viability of the businessplan, size of the potential market and existing competition.