The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Emily Malina
by Dylan Walsh It’s a staggering figure: the United States wastes roughly 40 percent of its food each year. This amounts to more than $200 billion spent growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food that is never used. From an environmental perspective, 20 percent of farmland, freshwater, and fertilizer goes ...
MIT Innovators: Mohammed Kamal [Student and Entrepreneur]
Mohamed Kamal talks about his business background in horticulture, and working with brands like IKEA, and how that led him (and his wife) to partnering up in business to build a startup (tentatively titled Furniture Masters) while studying here at MIT. …
MIT Innovators: Brendan Smith [PhD Student]
PhD Student, Brendan Smith chats to MIT’s Storyteller In Residence discusses the challenges of balancing his academic life with the development of a commercial venture based around providing clean drinking water for millions of Indian people living in rural areas, and the rest of the developing ...
MIT Innovators: Chandrika Maheshwari [First-Year MBA Student]
First-Year MBA student, Chandrika Maheshwari discusses her entrepreneurial development within the Martin Trust Center, alongside her professional background, and goals for the future in this interview. …
MIT Innovators: Adrian Cabrera [Alpaca Casa]
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. ...
Speaker Series: Bill Gurley
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 ...
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