{"id":48844,"date":"2023-03-20T21:54:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jumpstartinc.org\/?p=48844"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:27:19","slug":"entrepreneur-spotlight-nicole-paolozzi-ondecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpstartinc.org\/entrepreneur-spotlight\/entrepreneur-spotlight-nicole-paolozzi-ondecare","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Spotlight: Nicole Paolozzi, OndeCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is often said that \u2018necessity is the mother of invention,\u2019 and for Nicole Paolozzi, founder of OndeCare<\/a>, her past life as a single mom working a demanding job in Chicago planted the seeds for her current company\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack then, when I was traveling to the UK every six weeks, I used to dream of a taxi dispatch service that would drop off someone I implicitly trusted\u2014a retired teacher or nurse or paraprofessional\u2014to watch my child so I could balance the demands of my career with my home life,\u201d Paolozzi says.<\/p>\n

Years later, the dream resurfaced. Though the situation changed, her need for quality caregivers was as imperative as ever. With her mother-in-law in a wheelchair and her father-in-law diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Paolozzi moved her family back to Ohio to help support them as they aged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were failing them miserably,\u201d Paolozzi continues. \u201cThe available resources \u2013 the home care agencies couldn’t help. I was calling the fire department to go pick my father-in-law up off the floor and I thought to myself, \u2018there has to be a better way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

When her father-in-law passed away, Paolozzi set out to deconstruct the problem she had been mulling over.<\/p>\n

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“You have to learn the depth of the problem before you can build the solution.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n