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. …
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Ale Resnik
by Kara Baskin As a child growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ale Resnik, MBA ’13, always dreamed about going to MIT and becoming an engineer. “I was a geeky young kid. I got a Commodore 64 when I was four years old, because my dad was into computers,” he ...
It’s No Guessing Game: Why You Need to Scale Predictably to Grow Your Business
this article originally appeared in Inc. in December 2017 by Donna Levin How do early-stage companies position themselves for growth? Before scaling, founders think about the following five things according to Donna Levin, social entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Care.com. Care.com is the world's leading online site for helping families find and manage family care with ...
Where are the Hungry Dogs? A Look at Entrepreneurs in the Nordics
When you think of an entrepreneur, you probably conjure a picture in your head: a tenacious achiever, a passionate risk-taker – essentially one of the “hungry dogs.” But culturally, this is not a universal characterization. I was recently invited to Norway to teach an “Innovation Crash Course” workshop to postdocs ...
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Alex Bratianu
by Dylan Walsh Alex Bratianu, who has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, never planned to be an entrepreneur. He was sitting on an airplane one day when a voice came over the intercom and announced a 30-minute delay: the plane needed to be deiced. Twenty minutes later, another half-hour ...
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