The delta v Culture: 6 Entrepreneurial Essentials at MIT
On June 12, we’ll open the doors to this summer’s delta v cohort, beginning an intensive 3-month entrepreneurial “boot camp” for MIT student entrepreneurs. This post looks at the culture of delta v and how this environment helps to grow entrepreneurs. The saying “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is attributed to management ...
Why Consistent, Passionate Leadership Makes All the Difference
I had lunch the other day with a friend and former colleague; he had been the CEO of a successful company that we worked together to build. As usual, we caught up and reminisced, but what struck me about our conversation was our discussion around leadership, and how much truly ...
MIT Innovators: Evan Hartley Platt [Marketing Project Assistant at the MIT Technology Licensing Office]
Dom Smith chats to M.S. Candidate at MIT System Design and Management (SDM) and Marketing Project Assistant at the MIT Technology Licensing Office (TLO), Evan Hartley Platt about his entrepreneurial goals, overcoming personal adversity following serious injury, as well as his work at MIT in Patents. ...
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Dip Patel
by Dylan Walsh Dipul Patel recited a standard exchange: “As an entrepreneur, when you bring up some new idea to people the first thing they do is tell you how great it is and the second thing they tell you is why it won’t work,” he said. “The beauty of ...
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Ted Upton
by Kara Baskin In 2009, Cheeky Fishing CEO Ted Upton, MBA ’14, was about as far from the water as you can get. Newly graduated from Bowdoin College, he was a project analyst at Boston law firm Mintz Levin. “I thought I wanted to be a lawyer,” Upton says, laughing. ...
MIT Innovators: Colin Webb [Insemble]
Inside a very busy Martin Trust Center, MIT Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith chats to Mechanical Engineering student Colin Webb, about his entrepreneurial projects (including Insemble), and his quest to understand people better. …
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