05/21/13 -
The Martin Trust Center awarded four students with the Ronald I. Heller Grant at a reception at the center on May 10.
Heidi Baumgartner (physics, Class of 2014), Nikita Khlystov (chemical engineering, Class of 2014, with a minor in materials science and engineering), Anya Priester (MBA, Class of 2013), and Sam Shaner (nuclear science and engineering, PhD candidate) were honored for making significant progress in promoting entrepreneurship in specific fields and departments.
Heidi’s passion,...
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05/21/13 -
In recent years, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship has seen a sharp increase in the number of fashion startups coming out of MIT. From designing clothing out of sustainable fabrics to developing high-tech accessories, the startup scene at MIT is certainly becoming more stylish.
Many of these student entrepreneurs came together on April 29 for Fashion Innovators @ MIT, an event aimed at celebrating student startup ideas in fashion and bringing members of the Boston design...
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05/16/13 -
Fourteen teams will participate in this year’s MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator (MIT GFSA), an international entrepreneurship program that provides student entrepreneurs with the skills and resources needed to launch successful startups. The program, held from June to September 2013 and hosted at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, will bring together eight MIT student teams and six teams from universities in Canada, China, Germany, Russia, Scotland and Turkey.
The MIT GFSA...
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05/16/13 -
3dim, a startup creating new sensor-level software that recognizes three-dimensional gestures on small, battery-powered, mobile devices, was awarded the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 Grand Prize yesterday night, beating out seven other finalist teams during the MIT $100K Launch Business Plan Contest finale held at MIT's Kresge Auditorium.
This year’s finalist teams included, among others, a nuclear generator to be used in regions off power grids and sensors on a microchip for the measurement and...
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05/14/13 -
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited MIT today to learn more about its entrepreneurial ecosystem and its innovators. Cameron met at the MIT Media Lab with MIT President Rafael Reif, Media Lab director Joi Ito, Martin Trust Center faculty director Professor Fiona Murray, Media Lab faculty and students, and student and recent alumni entrepreneurs.
The MIT News article follows below. A photo slideshow from MIT News can be found by clicking here, and a Boston.com article can be found by...
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05/09/13 -
The Martin Trust Center has an opportunity for several up-to-full-time RAs for this summer to help build and develop the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP) which is headed up by Professor Scott Stern, Professor Fiona Murray, Martin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet, and Program Director Allison Munichiello. The job descriptions are flexible but include: (a) developing written material for the REAP website to describe the program, including case studies from our...
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05/01/13 -
In 2001, Apple changed how consumers purchased and listened to music through iTunes and the iPod. In 2007, Amazon released the Kindle, thus changing the way book lovers purchase and read literature. Both companies recognized two content types that could only be acquired and enjoyed through specific means (i.e. compact disks and paper books) and digitized the process, making both instantaneous and portable. Today, Mediuum aims to change the way consumers...
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04/30/13 -
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship has expanded its MIT Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Network to better support MIT students. The updated program still features an all-star lineup of serial entrepreneurs but has added two more levels of support to match students with those EIRs who best suit the student's level of entrepreneurship knowledge and expertise.
“We’re excited to be able to better support MIT student entrepreneurial endeavors of all kinds – inside and outside of the...
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04/30/13 -
Five students who have helped accelerate MIT entrepreneurship were recognized with the Patrick J. McGovern, Jr '59 Entrepreneurship Award, given yesterday at the annual MIT Awards Convocation.
The students are Allen Cheng, an MD-PhD student in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST); Elliot Cohen, a second-year MBA student; Colin Sidoti, a third-year management undergraduate; Will Whitney, a fourth-year computer science undergraduate; and Allison (Ally) Yost, a PhD student in...
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04/30/13 -
Entrepreneurship professors Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk and Matt Marx have received a 2013 Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF) from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Seven exceptional scholars comprise the fourth class of Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellows. The award recognizes their having begun to establish a record of scholarship and to exhibit the potential to make significant contributions to the body of research in the field of entrepreneurship.
The...
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