# Startup Lessons from the Baby-Sitters Club

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**Date:** March 12, 2026 · 10:00 PM  
**Location:** Austin Marriott Downtown / Waller Ballroom B  
**Format:** Solo  
**Track:** Startups  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Michelle Bedolla** — FounderBook Club Edition

The Baby-Sitters Club was a female-founded startup that thrived in the care economy, which included early-childhood education. This session highlights how the startup founders responded to local demand, built trust, and scaled their service with limited resources. Their fee-for-service business model provided affordable childcare to families. The Baby-Sitters Club incorporated empathy, social and emotional learning, creativity, and collaborative leadership into their core values. These business practices and values are transferable to startups in the real and modern world.

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