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Calling all Inventive Seniors & Graduate Students at MIT!

Submitted by on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 11:23am
Event Date
Event Date: 
Fri, 11/30/2012 (All day)
Event Sponsors
MIT or Community event?: 
MIT-sponsored event
Event Sponsor(s): 
Lemelson-MIT Program
Event Webpage: 
http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-student-2.html
MIT Building: 
10
MIT Room: 
110
Event Open To
Event Open To: 
MIT students
RSVP
Tickets or RSVP required?: 
No
Contact Person for Event
Contact Name: 
Shannon Leigh O'Brien
Contact Email: 
shannon1@mit.edu
Contact Phone Number: 
617-258-5798
• Individual inventors and/or key contributors to a team project, or who have otherwise demonstrated a portfolio of inventiveness are encouraged to apply
 
• Applicants become a part of a cohort, benefitting from events, networking, and other opportunities
 
• In addition to monetary support, Winners (and up to 2 Finalists) gain national media attention, enabling them to further develop their ideas and/ or entrepreneurial ventures

MIT Summer Accelerator Demo Day

Submitted by Snyder, Chris on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 9:05am
Event Date
Event Date: 
Sat, 09/08/2012 - 12:00pm - 2:45pm
Event Sponsors
MIT or Community event?: 
MIT-sponsored event
Event Sponsor(s): 
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Event Webpage: 
http://t0.mit.edu
MIT Building: 
50
Other Location (if not on the MIT campus, or to be more descriptive about the MIT location): 
Walker Memorial
Event Open To
Event Open To: 
MIT students
RSVP
Tickets or RSVP required?: 
Yes
How to RSVP: 
http://mitdemoday2012.eventbrite.com/
Ticket Prices: 
Free for MIT students
Contact Person for Event
Contact Name: 
Christina Chase
Contact Email: 
cchase@mit.edu
Contact Phone Number: 
617-253-8653
Last spring 129 MIT student teams applied to be in the MIT summer accelerator programs. We had facilities and resources for about 50 of them. These teams have since worked incredibly hard full time over the summer to make their groundbreaking technologies and ideas a reality. 

Innovative Products Often Come from Users, Not Companies, Says Professor von Hippel

Mon, 08/06/2012 - 2:05pm 
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MIT professor Eric von Hippel discussed user innovation on the WGBH radio show Innovation Hub late last month. He and others have found that many products have their root in user-driven innovations that were not designed to make money for the innovation's creator. If enough people are interested in the product, big companies eventually take notice. Listen to the full interview >>
 

Wecyclers is crowdfunding its launch in Lagos

Submitted by on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 2:21pm

MIT-CHIEF Business Plan Contest Deadline

Submitted by Marcoux, Vanessa on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:45pm
Event Date
Event Date: 
Sun, 07/29/2012 - 11:00pm
Event Sponsors
MIT or Community event?: 
MIT-sponsored event
Additional Event Sponsors: 
MIT-CHIEF (MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum)
Event Webpage: 
http://mitchief.org/contest
Event Open To
Event Open To: 
MIT community
RSVP
Tickets or RSVP required?: 
No
Contact Person for Event
Contact Email: 
contest@mitchief.org
MIT-CHIEF (MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum) presents to you theMIT-CHIEF "Pitch to China" Business Plan Contest. This annual Business Plan Contest aims to connect new technologies and business models with capital, resources and industry experts from China and abroad.
 

FSA is taking off like a rocket

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By: Ben Israelite

The Founders' Skills Accelerator is off to a hot start, with all ten companies actively utilizing the resources available to them through the program.  The last two weeks have been filled with lots of progress as the teams begin to strategically analyze their positioning and reevaluate their action plans.  The twice-weekly lunch clinics have been a major catalyst for this progress, with the four sessions over the last two weeks being:

The Buzz Gives Inside Look at Beehive Companies

Fri, 06/22/2012 - 10:03am 
Source: Beehive Cooperative
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The Beehive Cooperative is the home to over 40 startups and 100 team members. Each team has a unique story so the content team at the Beehive has created The Buzz, a weekly web series about the companies participating at MIT's newest and largest accelerator. 

To watch more of the series and to learn more about the Beehive Cooperative visit: http://beehive.mit.edu.

"The Beehive is freakin' awesome!"

Thu, 06/21/2012 - 4:14pm 
Source: BostInno.com
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“My goal was to bring in as many companies as possible,” Phil Cohen says, managing director of the Beehive Cooperative. And not just any companies, but a wide variety of companies that didn’t fit a specific mold. “An eclectic mix was really important to me, and it just so happened an eclectic mix is what we got.”

FSA orientation prepares founders for new stage in their career

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The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship was full of energy Friday, morning Friday morning, June 1, 2012 with the kickoff of the Founders’ Skills Accelerator (FSA). Ten MIT-based companies spent their first day learning about the resources available to them and gathering everything they need to know about the next 12 weeks as participants of the FSA.