MIT’s Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith chats to Adrian Cabrera, co-founder of Alpaca, a business that creates online communities (on Facebook), and generate traffic through people connecting for different reasons, including Apartment Rentals, and the people in this Alpaca-created group can then support each other’s needs. ...
by Erin Martin On Thursday, February 22nd, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship hosted Bill Gurley, partner at Benchmark Ventures, for a fireside chat. As an early investor in companies like Uber, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, and Zillow, Gurley has demonstrated an exceptional ability to anticipate where economic opportunity lies ...
by Kara Baskin Jon Bloom, M.D., didn’t need to attend business school to jumpstart his career. Before arriving at MIT in 2011, he was director of medical affairs at Covidien, a health care products company, and an anesthesiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. While at UPMC and an ...
First Year MBA student, Dan Kessler talks about his passion for social impact and next generation engagement with his idea, FundOne. In this revealing chat, Dan discusses how his background led to him coming to MIT and taking an entrepreneurial path. …
Shana Opperman and Adis Ojeda give an introduction to their startup idea, tentatively titled Hippo, and their aim to combat millennial loneliness through bringing people closer together via their interests. …
MIT’s Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith chats to Wen Jie Ong about Divaqua, a start-up out of the MIT Delta v program working on water treatment. …
MIT’s Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith chats to serial entrepreneur, and MIT student Alexander List about his current, and previous ideas, and offers up some key tips when understanding mental health issues within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. …
by Dylan Walsh In the fall of 2012, in his first week at MIT Sloan, Brint Markle was frantically exploring a handful of business ideas that he had invented more or less on the spot. With other new students from across campus, he was sprinting through the Martin Trust Center’s ...
In this latest interview, MIT’s Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith chats to Ali Mohammad, founder of Nuli Coffee, about his startup goals, advice for MIT students and making a music video for Ok Go! …
DevOps Engineer at MIT, Adam Taylor talks to Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith about his job role at MIT, as well as his business, Black which aims to promote black culture on a national scale. …
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