'Where Einstein Meets Edison': the MIT Entrepreneurship Review

A student-run online publication, the MIT Entrepreneurship Review (MITER), is showcasing the voices of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and alumni who share a passion for entrepreneurship. Lively articles offer insights from MIT classrooms and real-world results.

Founded in 2010, MITER styles itself as 'where Einstein meets Edison' or where thinkers meet doers. Here are a few highlights:

Penguin Finders are Eating the World!

Stav Davis, a Sloan graduate student and MITER chief executive, writes about the open hardware movement. He says that may be the "catalyst that Moore’s Law needs in order to sustain itself even further: make the basic secrets public." His example from this movement is littleBits, a company that can't keep up demand for its products: a collection of electronic components that click together magnetically to form electric circuits.

Critical Features for Multi-Device Applications

In part 2 of a series on morphing devices, MBA student Akshay Luther writes about morphing software, which can power devices from tablets to cars. He offers five guidelines for building such applications.

Drinking from the Well: A Serial Entrepreneur's Journey from Information Technology to Agribusiness

Sloan graduate student Natacha Hardy describes the path of Dan Grotsky SM '02, MBA '02, from his background in military intelligence and information technology, through the Leaders for Global Operations program, and into his current role as a serial entrepreneur in clean tech and sustainability. In a recent effort, he and his father are working in Moldova to help the government develop agriculture and to create private export enterprises to sell agricultural products.

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Joining a Startup: The Team Aspect

Kiran Divvela MBA '11 says pay particular attention to the team composition and leadership team because "A great team can make a mediocre idea successful, but a bad team will ruin any good idea that they lay their hands on."

Be Obsessed About Your Product!

Ricardo Diz MBA '10 describes what he learned about selling products, versus business services, during his Sloan studies.

MITER welcomes feedback and is looking for writers.