MIT Entrepreneurship Review

“No Chance of Failure”: Reflecting on Flagship Ventures’ Summer Fellowship

qzhang — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:18:39 +0000

QiChen Zhang discusses her internship at Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Critical Features for Multi-Device Applications

akshay.luther — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:29:27 +0000

Part II of the series on Morphing Devices. Mainstream consumers are increasingly intereacting with numerous devices that have different-sized displays: PCs, smartphones, tablets, TVs, cars, smart watches, smart glasses etc. This article presents guidelines on building morphing applications for post-PC era devices.

An Insider View of Y Combinator’s Boot Camp for Startups

gcyoung — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:26:14 +0000

Y Combinator (YC) has become unquestionably one of the most prestigious and competitive bootcamps for digital startups. MITER spoke with current YC participant Brett van Zuiden (Filepicker.io) about his summer session experience.

Drinking from the well: A serial entrepreneur's journey from information technology to agribusiness

hardynat — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:19:47 +0000

Back in 2002 when Dan Grotsky graduated from MIT’s Leadership in Global Operations (LGO) program, nothing could lead him to foresee he would work in agriculture and eagerly be waiting for his first tomato today. Dan’s background is in military intelligence and information technology. For this serial entrepreneur, there is a logic that connects the dots, a logic we can learn from.

Five Startups to Watch from Xconomy's 2012 XSite Summit

hussain — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:13:31 +0000

Babson College’s fourth annual “XSite 2012 Accelerating Innovation” conference was a day well spent. Participating in the Wellesley, Massachusetts event were entrepreneurs representing the best and brightest local start-ups in the areas of Healthcare, Clean Tech and Information Technology. Read on for a list of fab-five startups to watch.

Penguin Finders are Eating the World!

stav.davis — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:06:55 +0000

A conversation with littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir about the open hardware movement and children’s role in it

The Morphing Device

akshay.luther — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:39:12 +0000

The post-PC era is now indisputably upon us, as faster computing power has allowed the smartphone to enter the mainstream. Last year, smartphone shipments surpassed PC shipments for the first time. A “morphing device,” a powerful and portable device powered by the smartphone, elegantly transforms to power different-sized displays and seamlessly adapts to different contexts. Such a device is not only feasible but inevitable.