150 yrs ago, MIT’s first woman student, Ellen Henrietta Swallow, stepped foot on campus. In the century and a half since, the women of MIT have made an immeasurable impact around the globe. We are pleased to celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day...

MIT Orbit is an online tool for student entrepreneurs. This FAQ is based on an interview with the site’s creator, Paul Cheek, a software engineer and tech entrepreneur who joined the Trust Center as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) just over ...

by Dana Hwu, MIT delta v Program Manager Each week at the MIT delta v NYC Startup Studio, we host our “Founder’s Forum,” inviting entrepreneurs and industry veterans from the startup community to share their insights and hone in on a particula...

by Dana Hwu, MIT delta v Program Manager   At MIT delta v, the capstone educational accelerator for MIT students run annually by the Trust Center, teams work throughout the summer to form and grow their startup companies, focusing on customer, p...

by Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir, Ph.D, MBA, MRSB, MRSC Cultural intelligence can be understood as the capability to relate and work effectively across different cultures. These different cultures can be based along geographic or ethnic cultural lin...

The death of George Floyd and the events unfolding across the country have shaken us deeply. We stand with the protesters who are exercising their right to free speech and their desire that everyone hears their message. The peaceful protests are moti...

by Kosta Ligris, Entrepreneur in Residence The backup plan is now Plan A. Using web conferencing tools like Webex, Zoom, and Teams once was reserved for those occurrences when we couldn’t meet in person. But under the quarantine life caused by the...

This post is written by Carly Chase, Managing Director of the MIT NYC Startup Studio Chaotic, ambiguous, and unsure are three of the many ways I’ve heard the current environment that we’re all now operating in described. Unknowns are all around ...

by Kosta Ligris, Trust Center Entrepreneur in Residence “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of...

This is part of an ongoing series of posts by our Entrepreneur in Residence, Kosta Ligris, focused on guidance for the student teams taking part in our MIT delta v accelerator. “Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.” ...