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25 02, 2020

MIT FinTech Challenge 2020 Addresses Use of AI and Trading Patterns

2020-02-25T16:36:19+00:00

This past weekend, the Trust Center buzzed with activity as it hosted the 2nd annual MIT FinTech Challenge, sponsored by Citi and Citi Ventures. Nearly 100 students formed 14 teams and competed over two days for $12,000 in cash prizes as they focused on solutions to this year’s topic, suggested ...

MIT FinTech Challenge 2020 Addresses Use of AI and Trading Patterns2020-02-25T16:36:19+00:00
21 03, 2018

Want to Find the Next Big Startup? Try These Top University Courses

2018-03-21T16:20:47+00:00

from Forbes by Natalie Bartlett When it comes to starting a company in college, there are generally two types of student founders: those who spin out a company from a project-based class; and others who design their course load to advance and launch a project they’re already building. Certain universities ...

Want to Find the Next Big Startup? Try These Top University Courses2018-03-21T16:20:47+00:00
11 08, 2017

Open-source entrepreneurship

2017-08-11T10:00:03+00:00

by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office Open-source software is free software whose underlying code, or “source code,” is also freely available. Open-source development projects often involve hundreds or even thousands of volunteer coders scattered around the globe. Some of the best known are the Linux operating system, the Firefox web ...

Open-source entrepreneurship2017-08-11T10:00:03+00:00
31 03, 2017

Bill Aulet – Teaching MIT and the World About Entrepreneurship

2017-03-31T16:27:25+00:00

The level of impact that someone like Bill Aulet, the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, has made throughout his career is unmeasurable. Aulet displays an incomparable level of humbleness. You could tell that talking about himself is not preferred, as he would rather talk about ...

Bill Aulet – Teaching MIT and the World About Entrepreneurship2017-03-31T16:27:25+00:00
21 11, 2016

Harmony Space wins top prize at MIT Hacking Arts for music learning app that feels like Pokémon GO

2016-11-21T16:05:49+00:00

In Boston this weekend, software developers, hardware engineers, artists and entrepreneurs gathered for the Hacking Arts 2016 conference and hackathon at MIT. Of twelve finalists, the following teams took top honors. Best All-Around Hack: Harmony Space Best All-Around Hack, First Runner-Up: Revive Best All-Around Hack, Second Runner-Up: möbel Hackers’ Choice: ...

Harmony Space wins top prize at MIT Hacking Arts for music learning app that feels like Pokémon GO2016-11-21T16:05:49+00:00
2 10, 2016

Stanford, MIT lead in graduating funded startup founders

2016-10-02T10:39:13+00:00

Certain universities are known to produce a high number of funded startup founders. These schools tend to share certain qualities: prestige, large STEM programs, research prowess and proximity to concentrations of investor capital. At CrunchBase, we set out to quantify the comparative track records of such institutions. We started with ...

Stanford, MIT lead in graduating funded startup founders2016-10-02T10:39:13+00:00
19 05, 2016

From MOOC to Bootcamp to MIT

2016-05-19T11:32:17+00:00

Entrepreneurs share a lot in common: Determination. Passion. Ingenuity. And in the case of two students enrolling at MIT this fall: A path shaped by MITx. While everyone takes a different road to success, MIT's online learning platform provided two key turning points for Jakub Chudik and Jin Wu. Both ...

From MOOC to Bootcamp to MIT2016-05-19T11:32:17+00:00
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