The document discusses the mission and approach of MIT's entrepreneurship center. It aims to teach entrepreneurship as a craft through proven frameworks, courses, programs and facilities. The goal is to help students become agile and learn skills applicable in various entrepreneurial roles. Key aspects include academic rigor, collaboration, diversity, experimentation, and combining academic and practical perspectives. The center supports the entrepreneurial journey from inspiration to acceleration through various programs, events, and infrastructure over the academic year and summer.

1. AGILE –
NOT FRAGILE
Helping students
learn the craft of
entrepreneurship

2. At MIT, we believe
entrepreneurship
is a craft that can
be taught.

3. Our mission is to advance
knowledge and educate
students in innovation-driven
entrepreneurship, in a
manner that will best serve the
nation and the world in the
21st century.
We accept and welcome our
leadership role to advance the
field at MIT as well as globally.

4. We serve MIT students, to
whom we provide proven
frameworks, courses, co-
curricular programs, state of
the art facilities, advisory
services and processes to
create a rigorous, practical,
customized and integrated
experience.
Our goal is to help them
become agile, not fragile.

5. Principles of operation
MIT Standard of Excellence & Rigor
We provide the highest quality education, advising, and
practical experiences.
Collaboration
We work closely with other MIT departments, labs,
centers, and groups to connect students with the best
entrepreneurship programming across the Institute and
beyond when appropriate.
Diversity and inclusion
Entrepreneurship requires diversity of opinion and
diversity of people. Throughout our courses, advising,
and programming, we combine a range of critical
perspectives.
Experimentation
Each year we try new programs and activities. If we fail,
we learn. We don’t expect everything to work the first
time; if they all do, we are not innovating enough.
Honest Broker
First, neither the Center nor its faculty or staff are
allowed to take a financial interest in any of the new
companies that we nurture and assist. Second, we strive
to always provide our students with multiple options and
educate them on the process to make an informed
decision. The choice always rests with the student. The
Center will work to create a level playing field for the
options. Our only goal is the student’s entrepreneurship
education and long-term entrepreneurial success.
Mens et Manus
True to the motto of MIT, in all of our courses and
throughout our activities, we operate on a hybrid model
that fuses academic and practitioner perspectives.

6. Program pillars

7. Spirit
of a pirate
Skills
of a Navy Seal
+

9. Our many student personas
Explorer Founder Joiner Corporate Amplifier

10. AYA: A startupentrepreneur

11. Hear abouteship
explore eship
Deep dive into eship
Next steps
FALL: Events
JANUARY: Programs
SPRING++: Classes,
Projects, Programs,
Competitions
SUMMER:
Projects, Programs

12. THE MTC4ME ENTREPRENEURSHIP RAMP
11
Inspiration:
Idea,
Technology
Application:
Extra-Curricular
Acceleration:
Fully Immersive
Capstone
Fundamentals:
Classroom
Exploration:
Workshops,
Grants, EIR’s

13. 12

14. 13

20. 19

21. Mit’s entrepreneurial legacy
Over 30,000 companies, 4.6M jobs, $2T revenue/y

22. Academics
All taught with academic and practitioner faculty wherever possible
providing a rigorous/disciplined understanding and skill set
About Entrepreneurship
15.360, Eship for eng, Venture Engineering, StartMIT
Functional Skills
Partial Portfolio
Industry
Partial Portfolio
In Company Experience
Partial Portfolio
• Product design
• Marketing
• Sales
• Finance
• Fundraising
• Legal
• IP
• HR
• Sales
• Corporate eship
• Energy
• Healthcare
• BioTech
• FinTech
• Social*
• Dev World*
• Real Estate
• Media
• Hard tech
• E-Lab
• G-Lab
• S-Lab
• DE-Lab
Foundational Skills
Partial Portfolio
• Founding & Teams
• Strategy
• Scaling
• Advanced
techniques
Become an Entrepreneur
15.390, MIT fuse

23. Events
Diane Green, CEO, Google’s Cloud
Services division (former CEO, VM Ware)
Prof. Bengt Holmstrom,
Nobel laureate in Economics

24. Programs

25. Student Clubs

26. Infrastructure and agents
Kosta Ligris
MIT, 5 Start Ups,
Co-Founder
Stavvy, Lawyer
Trish Cotter
Doctorate, 2
Garage to IPO,
Netezza
Operations
Elaine Chen
MIT, 5+ Start Ups,
Roboticist, Corporate
Entrepreneurship
Kit Hickey
MIT, Co-Founder
Ministry of Supply,
Finance guru
Will Sanchez
MIT Ph.D.,
2 startups,
Telefonica & CIA
Dip Patel
MIT, Co-Founder
Ecovent, Lockheed
Martin
Brint Markle
MIT, Co-Founder
Avatech / Mountain
Hub, PE & Consulting

27. Outreach

28. IT TAKES A VILLAGE
Team Professional Advisor Network
+ 200-300 volunteer mentors, speakers and mock board members every summer

29. MIT is just the beginning

30. THANK
YOU
http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu

31. Backup Slides

32. The Experience for the Student …
31
Sept
Demo Day
(Sat)
“Yes I Can!”
then
T=0 Festival
(M-Th)
Getting
started
Fall
Low Friction
Events,
Classes,
Clubs
“Increasing
exposure”
IAP
FUSE,
StartMIT,
$100K Pre-
Accelerator
Treks,
Internships
“Starting
to commit”
Spring
More
Advanced
Classes,
Competitions,
Ind. Studies,
Services
“In the race”
Summer
delta v
Accelerator,
Plus other
Full
commitment
options
“Full
immersion –
all in for
summer”

33. Content* Success
• External: Harvard, Yale, U Penn, U Colorado,
UNC, Duke, McGill, Kings College, Scotland,
Mexico, Copenhagen, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Turkey & many, many more
* - “content” = frameworks, course content, facilities, advisory and processes
IMF

34. Beyond startups:
Corporate Entrepreneurship

35. CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
“I found our organization’s funding spent to
support the trust center to be not only the
most enjoyable and interesting money
spent understanding the Boston and MIT
entrepreneurial ecosystem, but also the
most productive.”
THOMAS ANDRAE
former Director, 3M New Ventures

37. 2019
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Academics
Programs
Events
Infrastructure
Outreach
GSD EPD ITM CE EFT CI
Summer accelerator
EIR V1
Janmini accelerator
Fintechchallenge
EIR V3EIR V2 EIR V4 EIR V5
Orbit V1KB V1Zendeskv1Wiki
ES
Speakerseries Maker events Pitch events
Zendeskv2
NYCSS V1
Beehive New space
EEF
KB V2 ZendeskV3