Entrepreneurship

About this Issue

Welcome to the first issue of the MIT Enterprise Forum Link. This quarterly publication has a simple mission: to connect and inspire members of the MIT EF community and celebrate our core values. For the Entrepreneurship issue we spoke with influential business leaders about the value, meaning and purpose of being an entrepreneur. In a candid interview, Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, talks to the EF Link about the challenges of turning a basement startup into a top 100 rated website, his definition of entrepre-neurship and the future of technology. Our own MIT EF Global Chair, Joe Hadzima, talks about the history behind and the vision for the future of MIT EF and enlightens us on the subject of Intellectual Property. Director of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service and past President of Bose Corp.’s, Sherwin Greenblatt, tells us how he helped to take a two-man startup and turned it into a world class brand with over 10,000 employees. Pamela Lipson, TR35 Young Innovator of 2002, and CEO of Imagen Incorporated, discusses how she parlayed an amazing visual recognition technology into a leading high tech company.

We hope that you enjoy and find inspiration in the conversations with this amazing group of entrepreneurial achievers, as much as we did. Above all, as a member of the MIT EF community, remember that Link is your publication, so, please share some of the unique ideas from your chapter or suggest topics and resources you believe would benefit our readers. Contact us at: mitef-news@mit.edu.

Patrick Robinson
Peter Zak

One Response to “From the Editors”

1. Clark C. Abt Says:
   December 11th, 2007 at 9:02 am

   Congratulations on a much needed publication. I suggest you have a one-page column titled: “I LEARNED ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP FROM THAT!”, and Spot Autobiographies of Company Founders of diverse ages and enterprises that have some MIT connection (alumni, graduate students, faculty, contractors, sponsors).
   Please also consider a section on SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, or “Doing Well by Doing Good, and vice versa”.

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