MIT’s Storyteller In Residence, Dom Smith chats to John Robinson Kendall about his start-up, Mindful Testing VR and the process of developing VR technology for the education sector. …
It’s hard to believe I’ve recently finished my third year of guiding MIT startup teams through our delta v student venture accelerator. The 2017 cohort was another fantastic group of entrepreneurs and startups, and I look forward to seeing the places they will go as they develop their businesses and grow as individuals. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MIT’s student venture accelerator program has kicked off for 2017! delta v is a unique program that provides a capstone educational opportunity for MIT student entrepreneurs, and prepares them to hit escape velocity and launch into the real world. “delta v” literally means a change in velocity, and we believe this ...
This post originally appeared on the MIT Executive Education "innovation@work" blog. Long before Shark Tank was a popular hit TV series, MIT was encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit through its five-day Entrepreneurship Development Program, led by Bill Aulet, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of The Martin Trust Center for ...
Follow