Dom Smith catches up with David Hojah and Frank Yiran Gao of Loro to discuss their goal of helping others through their innovative product that is aimed at giving wheelchair users around the globe more freedom and independence. …
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 ...
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. …
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 ...
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’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. ...
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 ...
by Kara Baskin Jon Bloom, M.D., didn’t need to attend business school to jumpstart his career. Before arriving at MIT in 2011, he was director of medical affairs at Covidien, a health care products company, and an anesthesiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. While at UPMC and an ...
First Year MBA student, Dan Kessler talks about his passion for social impact and next generation engagement with his idea, FundOne. In this revealing chat, Dan discusses how his background led to him coming to MIT and taking an entrepreneurial path. …
Shana Opperman and Adis Ojeda give an introduction to their startup idea, tentatively titled Hippo, and their aim to combat millennial loneliness through bringing people closer together via their interests. …
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