delta v Speaker Series: Joel Wishkovsky & The Power of a Weekly Update Email
In the very first week of this summer's accelerator, the MIT delta v teams located at the NYC Startup Studio received a visit from Joel Wishkovsky, founder and CEO of Simple Contacts, a service that provides contact lens refills without a trip to the eye doctor. Joel spoke about a ...
Find Your Voice, Own Your Narrative, and Help Your Mentor Help You
In today’s society, there is an awareness that diversity is important not only as a concept, but also for real bottom line improvements. While this is good news, there is still a long way to go. I recently had the privilege of joining a panel that discussed the successes and ...
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 ...
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