Sheventures

Every entrepreneur faces a moment when they decide if they’re all in. For Belinda DiGiambattista, it was one weekend when she and her husband agonized over whether to take out a loan out against their home in order to fund a much-needed upgrade to her food business’ kitchen. They could have lost everything. Instead, DiGiambattista’s focus, drive, and unrelenting optimism catapulted her first company, Butter Beans — a business whose mission it is to provide healthy lunch menus for public, private, and charter schools — to a multi-million-dollar revenue business. After nine years, she successfully sold the company for an undisclosed amount. She says she is now “financially comfortable.” DiGiambattista, who earned her MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, decided the valuable lessons she learned as an entrepreneur could be sold as online classes on the platform Teachable. She is now an “infopreneur” who ran her first successful pilot this fall and plans to relaunch her full-blown course in the