Startups

Starting up — again and again

June 3, 2013

MBA student Danny Castonguay finds a thrill in starting new companies.

Also labeled: Entrepreneurship, Graduate, postdoctoral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Business, Business and management, Business development, Profile, Students

Helping the world accelerate support for entrepreneurship

May 29, 2013

Two-year MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program now accepting new applicants

Also labeled: Business, Business and management, Business development, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Global, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Faculty, Staff

3dim wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

May 16, 2013

Annual business-plan contest awards $257,000 in total.

Also labeled: Contests and academic competitions, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), MIT $100K competition, Special events and guest speakers

MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams

May 16, 2013

Startup accelerator includes eight MIT student teams as well as teams from six international universities.

Also labeled: Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Awards, honors and fellowships, Collaboration, Deshpande Center, Electrical engineering and electronics, Entrepreneurship, Global, Graduate, postdoctoral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Mechanical engineering, Media Lab, Skoltech, Student life, Students, Undergraduate

Funding clean-energy solutions

May 7, 2013

MIT’s Clean Energy Prize awards more than $300,000 to support green startups and technologies.

Also labeled: Alternative energy, Contests and academic competitions, Department of Energy (DoE), Energy, Environment and energy, Special events and guest speakers, Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

MSMS student taps MIT Sloan to power energy research

May 7, 2013

As a student in the Master of Science in Management Studies program, Vikalp Sabhlok examines ways to improve energy distribution systems in developing countries.

Also labeled: Business, Business and management, Business development, Electric grid, Energy, Energy efficiency, Global, Graduate, postdoctoral, MIT $100K competition, Student life, Students, Alternative energy, Developing countries

High probability of success

May 1, 2013

MIT alumnus and entrepreneur Ben Vigoda took his probability-processing technology to market with help from the Institute.

Also labeled: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Kendall Square, MIT $100K competition, Probability, Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Mentoring Service

Power to the people

April 18, 2013

From afar, MIT grad student Chidube Ezeozue devotes energy to his fellow Nigerians.

Also labeled: Global, Graduate, postdoctoral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Legatum Center, Profile, Students, Volunteering, outreach, public service, Africa, Electric grid, Electricity, Energy, Solar

Sweet success

April 10, 2013

Johnny Earle, founder of Johnny Cupcakes, offers startup advice to MIT Sloan students

Also labeled: Business, Business and management, Business development, Clubs and activities, Marketing, Special events and guest speakers, Students, Graduate, postdoctoral

The half-billion-dollar idea

April 8, 2013

While at MIT, alumnus Todd Zion developed an insulin product that ultimately drew the attention of a pharmaceutical giant.

Also labeled: Alumni/ae, Biotechnology, Mentoring, MIT $100K competition, Business development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Biomedicine, Insulin, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Chemistry and chemical engineering

MicroRNA detection on the cheap

March 28, 2013

MIT alumni’s startup provides rapid, cost-effective microRNA profiling, which is beneficial for diagnosing diseases.

Also labeled: Alumni/ae, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Diagnostic devices, Disease, Faculty, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), MicroRNA, Research, Technology licensing

From biotech to high-tech

March 20, 2013

Newer Kendall Square firms attribute their success to innovative ideas — and to location, location, location.

Also labeled: Biotechnology, Business development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Kendall Square, Profile, Business, social-media marketing, Web marketing

Birthplace of biotech

March 19, 2013

Successful tech and biotech companies founded by MIT entrepreneurs thrive in adjacent Kendall Square, where innovation and intellectual capital abound.

Also labeled: Entrepreneurship, Kendall Square, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)