I recently co-founded a high-performance lithium battery startup with a PhD student and technology based out of his research at MIT. Our technology appears revolutionary promising much greater energy density, better cycle life, wider temperature range, and improved safety. Our story on paper sounds impressive and it resonates with people. Who wouldn’t want an electric [...]
A few weeks ago, Oliver Samwer (co-founder of Rocket Internet) visited the HBS campus with the purpose of luring talented MBAs away from traditional careers in consulting and banking, and instead, join one of his many internet startups around the world. In the lecture theatre, it was standing-room only, with over a hundred students packing [...]
Hang out around tech-oriented MBAs and you inevitably hear questions like “I want to learn to code but don’t know where to start” or “what language do I need to learn…Ruby, Python or PHP?” Jumping into coding cold is difficult, you don’t know what skills you need and you don’t know where to start. So [...]
Can the creation of more startup hubs, in the image of Silicon Valley, reignite American innovation? This problem is of personal importance to me because I’m originally from Detroit, which has obviously faced its share of economic hardships the past few years. Many people, including me, believe that attracting startups to Detroit is one of [...]
Part tea, part massage, part long walk on the beach. What sounds better than that? Honestly, nothing, so kudos to Harvard MBA Daniel Rumennik on the clever marketing behind bcalm, the newest wellness drink designed to bring you mental clarity and stress relief. After living the anxiety-ridden life of a consultant in New York City, Rumennik [...]
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Mason, Jack Dorsey, Mark Pincus. What’s missing on this list of superstars? Female representation. The percentage of women entrepreneurs overall is shockingly low: Y-Combinator, the “harvard of incubators,” reports just 4% women in its program. Paul Graham points out that only 1.7% of VC-backed startups are founded by women. Looking at our [...]
The Social Enterprise Club and Design Clubs at Harvard Business School are organizing the first ever Social Innovation Workshop at Harvard. The event hopes to harness the increasing focus on innovation across Harvard to address pressing social issues. The workshop will provide students with a hands-on opportunity to learn how to use human-centered design thinking [...]
Many say that if you have an idea and want to become an entrepreneur, don’t get an MBA and just go start the company. However, I don’t see why the two have to be mutually exclusive. Based on my experience, I feel that the business school environment is a great seeding ground for a first [...]
It’s hard to believe that we’re already a month deep into FIELD 3. Then again, my team only just finalized what exactly our product will be, making this an ideal time to start sharing our experiences. I’m the CFO of The Yenta Group, ticker symbol: YNTA. Our inaugural product is yenta-friend, an online matchmaking community. [...]
Roy Rosin, previously the President of Innovation at Intuit, made tax returns sexy. Every year around April 15 (it’s coming up!), Facebook feeds of friends’ tax refund amounts, filed through Turbo Tax, start popping up. When I filed my returns a few years ago, I remember loving that Turbo Tax was integrated with a lot [...]
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