Enterprise in Action: Videos Showcase Emerging Opportunities Worldwide

The MIT Enterprise Forum's new global video portal showcases what entrepreneurs are doing through videos of presentations from Cambridge to the PanArab region.

Learn about startups like ZipTip, Lois Hamblet's company that provides a quick way to give and receive tips using a mobile smartphone. In a Cambridge presentation, she talks about how the idea was formed, their progress, and how the StartSmart Class and Start-up Clinics from the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge has helped her team.

Learn about the 5th annual MITEF Arab Business Plan competition from its launched in Abu Dhabi in September 2011 until the final award ceremony in Dubai in June. For background, see Hala Fadel MBA '01, chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region, explain how the competition helps young entrepreneurs launch their businesses.

You can also learn about the Oct. 24-26 EmTech conference, the annual gathering in Cambridge that focuses on emerging technologies and their impact. Participants receive a $200 discount by registering before Oct. 22.

Membership in the MIT Enterprise Forum is open to MIT alumni and other entrepreneurs through 28 global chapters worldwide.