Easter 2021 Basket of Updates
An Easter 2021 basket full of random updates: Trish Cotter Moves On: After over 5 years of complete dedication to the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Executive Director Trish Cotter has decided to transition out to find her next challenge. Trish’s spectacular contributions in running delta v, operations, ...
Funding Matters: KINETIC Platform Aims to Connect Entrepreneurs of Color With Funders
According to a 2020 study by the Kauffman Foundation and MaC Venture Capital, ethnically diverse founding teams provide higher returns when cash is returned to investors. “Historically, they have earned a 3.26x median realized multiple on IPOs and acquisitions, compared to a 2.50x realized multiple for white founding teams, ...
Raising a Pi: Waffle Honors Pi Day With a $3.14M Round
Today is a special day here at MIT. Despite the pandemic, our community still celebrates the greatest mathematical constant. As an unofficial holiday, Pi Day is the school's tribute to the enduring genius of mathematics. What Einstein called “the poetry of logical ideas.” And Galileo “the nature’s language.” Math ...
The Best Books on Entrepreneurship (That Aren’t About Entrepreneurship)
Over the past 12 months, I have had the chance to do more reading. Among all the titles I’ve flipped through, there have been two great books on unrelated topics that are actually about entrepreneurship. This is not uncommon as some of the best insights we get come from ...
We See Ourselves as Entrepreneurs, But Others See Our Gender or Race
Last November, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship celebrated Women’s Entrepreneurship Month by featuring a different female entrepreneur each day on Instagram. Accompanying each photo was a short Q&A with questions about their entrepreneurship journey, including, “What are 3 words to describe entrepreneurs who are female?” One response, ...
An Inside Look at Entrepreneurial Founding & Teams
Entrepreneurial Founding and Teams (15.394) with Kit Hickey and Erin Scott Course description: Entrepreneurial Founding and Teams explores key organizational and strategic decisions in founding and building a new venture. Through a series of cases, readings, and activities, students examine the trade-offs and consequences of early founder decisions: whom to ...
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