12/13/12 -
Testive is dedicated to creating "online test prep that doesn't suck", according to Miro Kazakoff, Testive Co-Founder. Recent TechStars Boston Alumnus, Testive raised $500K from Boston Angels such as Jean Hammond, Eileen Rudden, Darmesh Shah, and Bill Warner. Testive's TurboTest platform is designed to diagnose the areas that SAT takers need the most help on, and then personalize practice sets for those sections. "I can move at my own pace, only get problems that help me improve, and I don’t...
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12/11/12 -
Lark Technologies launched LarkLife, a personal coaching device that analyzes your daily activities and recommends actions to better your day. This is their second product launch building off their first product, Lark and Lark Pro, which would gently wake up the wearer of their product without interrupting the sleep of partners or roommates.
MIT Sloan student and entrepreneur, Julia Hu, founded lark Technologies and is the chief executive officer. Lark has been recently received praise for...
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12/07/12 -
From left to right, Bill Aulet, Nick Groff, and Fernando Garibay
There are several bloodshot-eyed men and women draped across a room. Beverage cans are lined around tables; floors and chairs become a place to rest for only a few moments. It is a common sight among the music industry - often associated with all-night parties and trashed hotel rooms. However, this is not the location of an all-night party and these are not your typical rock stars – this is Music Hack Day @ MIT and these are MIT...
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12/04/12 -
Originally published: December 4, 2012 on MIT Sloan Newsroom
A top immigration official visited MIT Sloan Nov. 28, where he met with students and said his agency is adapting to the needs of foreign-born entrepreneurs who are frustrated with the complex immigration and visa process.
“It has been a sea-change in our agency in terms of recognizing the startup profile, a startup venture, and trying to match that venture with a legal instrument that the immigration system can provide,” said U.S....
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11/29/12 -
Fiona Murry suggests at least two ingredients are key to growing a region's economic impact: Innovation Capacity and Entrepreneurial Capacity. Innovation Capacity is the ability to generate new ideas, and develop them to a point where those ideas can be used, while Entrepreneurial Capacity represents how effectively entrepreneurs can find needs and meet them with a business strategy. These are two of the concepts taught in the Regional Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program (REAP) at MIT, and...
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11/19/12 -
Tech Crunch's Sarah Perez reports that a new partnership between Locu and OpenTable will let restaurants provide more accurate and timely menus online. Locu makes it easy to edit and design a restaurant's online menu, keep it consistent across the web, and make that data easy to export to other formats.To date, it has collected almost half a million restaurant menus. Now, the over 25,000 restaurants which use OpenTable for online reservations will find their menus more accurate by default, and...
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11/09/12 -
Tim Fu (Sloan 2012) tore his ACL in 2009 playing Ultimate Frisbee. During his physical therapy, he thought there must be a better way to to assist patients with physical therapy at home. His startup, Home Team Therapy, uses the Xbox Kinect to make it easy for patients to ensure they are doing their exercises correctly at home. Home Team Therapy was recently featured on The Doctors TV to show exactly how useful this can be for at home users. "The Kinect uses infrared sensors to track your body...
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11/06/12 -
Gaëtan Bonhomme, Vice President of Kurion, is working to clean up the contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, reports Andrew Morse of the Wall Street Journal. Kurion is using a new technology that filters nuclear waste and then fuses the contaminated materials into glass, forming a much more stable way of handling and disposing of the nuclear waste. Kurion hopes to continue to develop this technology, and work towards cleaning up contaminated material at the Hanford...
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10/30/12 -
Business Models for Scale and Sustainability in Global Health examines how innovations in business models, operations, strategy, collaboration, and design are now delivering needed health care in resource-limited settings—and explores how to improve performance further. With enterprises as our focus, we link an informative set of readings with compelling case studies and lively class discussions and exercises.
The course starts meeting this week and continues for the remainder of the Fall 2012...
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10/24/12 -
While the price of electronics continue to decrease year after year, the price of hearing aids is on the rise, according to Tricia Romano's story in the New York Times. This is often due to overengineering of hearing aids, and adding features that consumers don't really use. MIT Founder Patrick Freuler says "For someone with mild to moderate hearing loss, the average hearing aid today is completely overengineered.” His startup, Audicus.com is selling low cost hearing aids online, cutting out...
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