Moneyball for Startups
As part of the Fall 2017 Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, we were very pleased to host MIT Sloan Professor Tauhid Zaman for his presentation, "Moneyball for Startups," a topic that the Wall Street Journal described as "a data-driven approach to power 'home-run' exits." Here's a clip from the talk where Zaman explains ...
Wow! That’s Such a Cool Job
from the MIT Sloan Experts blog I have recently been catching up with colleagues from companies past, and when I let them know what I am doing now, I often get the reaction, “Wow! That’s such a cool job.” And it is … I’m fortunate to be the director of delta ...
How Educational Accelerators are Aiming to Neutralize Gender Bias for Entrepreneurs
Gender bias is sneaky. It’s often subtle, yet pervasive – and the effects are far reaching. We’ve heard a lot this summer about outright sexual harassment and discrimination against women in the tech industry. This is certainly disgraceful and I applaud the actions taken to remove the offenders from their ...
Entrepreneurship Is a Craft and Here’s Why That’s Important
In my 20-plus years as an entrepreneur and seven years as an entrepreneurship educator, I have explored whether starting successful companies should be thought of as a science or an art. If entrepreneurship is a science, then I could easily teach my students that if they perform actions X and ...
The Board of Directors Meeting
We’re about two-thirds through this summer’s MIT delta v educational accelerator, where student entrepreneurs participate in a rigorous “entrepreneurship boot camp” from June to early September. The students work on their ventures full time, and I am reminded of how much progress can be made when this is their sole focus. Our 21 ...
Female Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground
Women now make up nearly 40 percent of new entrepreneurs in the United States — the highest percentage since 1996, according to the 2017 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity. And research reported in HBR.com shows that The Gender Gap in Startup Success Disappears When Women Fund Women; encouraging news indeed. With MIT’s delta v student ...
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