“If you start a business with your friends, you lose your money as well as your friend.” This jinx may be true for some people, but certainly it is not for Axon Sleep Research Laboratories. Similar to that of the guest speaker who talked about her entrepreneurship experience in Energy Power Tab, Axon Laboratory began with four student who only had ideas and little bit of love money from their parents. One day, Brown University Student named Samee McDannel told her friends after an exam that a groggy morning had ruined her test. And this ordinary conversation led to a sparkling idea of Smart Sleep Alarm clock was hatched. Samee decided to create a device that would improve sleepy, bloodshot eyed mornings by monitoring a user’s sleeping cycle. Thus she began her career of entrepreneurship with her friends, Eric Shashoua, Benjamin Rubin, and Jason Donahue, and In 2003, Salee’s Axon Labs won the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program Elevator Speech competition after pitching their SleepSmart product. And since then, Axon Sleep Research Labs has been adding various new products, even beds and sleep helping accessories.
