Entrepreneurial Founding and Teams (15.394) with Kit Hickey and Erin Scott Course description: Entrepreneurial Founding and Teams explores key organizational and strategic decisions in founding and building a new venture. Through a series of cases, readings, and activities, students examine the trade-offs and consequences of early founder decisions: whom to ...
New Enterprises (15.390) with Paul Cheek Course description: New Enterprises covers the process of identifying and quantifying market opportunities, then conceptualizing, planning, and starting a new, technology-based enterprise. Topics include opportunity assessment, the value proposition, the entrepreneur, legal issues, entrepreneurial ethics, the business plan, the founding team, seeking customers and ...
Entrepreneurship Lab (15.399) aka "E-Lab" with Trish Cotter Course description: Project-based subject, in which teams of students from MIT, Wellesley, and Harvard work with startups on problems of strategic importance to the venture. Popular sectors include software, hardware, robotics, clean technology, and life sciences. Offered in Spring 2021 on Tuesdays ...
Building an Entrepreneurial Venture (15.378) aka GSD with Carly Chase Course description: Intensive, project-based subject intended for startup teams already working on building a new, high-impact venture. Applies advanced entrepreneurial techniques to build and iterate a venture in a time-compressed manner. Includes weekly coaching sessions with instructors and peers, as ...
On December 10th, the Trust Center was honored to host a Speaker Series event focused on the challenges that underrepresented entrepreneurs face, and the ways that members of entrepreneurial ecosystems can act as allies, and more, to help support these founders. Our featured speakers were Susanne Althoff, the author of ...
Carly Chase is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Trust Center as well as a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan. She is also the Managing Director of the MIT NYC Startup Studio, part of the MIT delta v accelerator. This year, Carly organized our second annual Corporate Entrepreneurship Symposium titled ...
November was a celebration of Women's Entrepreneurship at MIT in honor of the 150th anniversary of MIT's first woman student, Ellen Henrietta Swallow, stepping foot on campus. In the century and a half since, the women of MIT have made an immeasurable impact around the globe. The Trust Center spent ...
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 by spotlighting some of the woman entrepreneurs who have ...
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 two years ago. Q: What is MIT Orbit? Orbit ...
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 particular topic that is essential for a successful founder. ...
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