Course Number and Year of Graduation (for example, 2-2020, EM-2021)

Tell us your top 2 or 3 reasons why you want to be part of this class?

Briefly describe one project you’ve participated in that makes you feel proud

Startup/Entrepreneurship experience/knowledge

What would you like to contribute on your MfS team? Maybe experience, maybe coursework, maybe project management, maybe something else...

Which platform do you prefer- Venmo or Zelle?

Where do you plan to be physically located during the remainder of the semester?

I was born and raised in the underdog borough of NYC - Staten Island - to immigrant parents. From my childhood, I've been building, hustling, and dreaming big. I'm passionate about disrupting consumer experiences - whether it be in the health and wellness or fintech spaces.

Want to become a better negotiator as a founder, want to learn the technicals of money for startups, want to expand my network by meeting other students in the class and guest speakers.

Starting the Women In Investing speaker series at Sloan where prominent women investors across VC and PE come to speak to students.

Eagerness to learn, project management and organization, some startup knowledge.

Learn the ecosystem, process, practice, and establish long term relationships.

Starting up multi-dimensional operations overseas.

Where I can bring value yet stretch. I bring experience, passion, functional, and leadership skills.

I am recently started working on a venture about providing basic primary telehealth to women from low economic areas in Pakistan.

I want to understand how to raise finding for a venture, and I am also interested to work in a VC

Last semester, did a project on pricing architecture for a MIT Startup working on data analytics for FMCG market in Indonesia.

I'm interested in starting my own business in AI and robotics after graduation. I also want to meet new friends from this class.

I have helped built and coded the first few prototypes for a household robot that was named the best of CES 2017.

My industry experience working at both startups and big companies.

I am an electronics engineer, passionate about reinventing business models and processes with technology. I have helped Fortune 500 companies and other large corporations to build their digital transformation strategies in Asia and Latin America. MIT research assistant at MIT Center for Information Systems Research. Ex-SAP; Incoming Amazon senior technical product manager.

I hope one day soon to have the courage enough to leave the corporate jobs and start my journey as an entrepreneur with any of my ideas. This past year, during the quarantine, I launched 2 ventures in Colombia, I did not seek any external funding besides sandbox. I want to learn how to do it.

Created a permanent interactive exposition at the Children's Museum in Colombia. It teaches kids about physics through soccer and technology.

Project management, digital business models, platform strategy, product design, hard work, and commitment

Hi! I'm Mihir, a senior in 6-3 intending to MEng. I'm excited about entrepreneurship and innovation, especially in digital health and biotech. Fun Facts: I speak Mandarin and like glassblowing. Excited to be a part of the class!

- Would like to learn how to negotiate strategically, learn how VC investment deals work, how to think like a VC

Wrote a first-authored paper on NLP in Medicine last summer at an internship

Previous Entrepreneurship Classes: StartMIT, The Start-Up Experience at MIT

I’m Naomi, a junior studying Course 2A-Product Development (mechanical engineerings with a concentration in product development). I was born in Asmara, Eritrea, grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and have spent most of my time since March 2020 between Dallas, TX and Boston, MA. At MIT, I'm involved in the UA (MIT's student government), Camp Kesem, the MIT Consulting Group, and many other student organizations. In my free time, I enjoy baking, exploring Boston, and traveling.

I worked at many small businesses during my time in high school which contributed to my early fascination with entrepreneurship. I hope to one day have my own business, but the logistics of actually funding and operating this sort of enterprise often feels daunting. I hope that this class will help demystify the process of funding a new venture and help me gain confidence in my ability to become a successful entrepreneur.

Recently, I was a youth services intern at Canopy NWA, a refugee resettlement agency in my hometown. I had worked with this organization throughout high school tutoring refugee students, and my internship was focused on improving student-teacher relations as it relates to refugee youth. Over the semester, I independently researched, wrote, and shared a teacher resource book for teachers of refugee students. Canopy NWA now uses this book to help local educators understand the unique challenges faced by refugee youth and how they can help these students thrive.

Total newbie and eager to learn

I have taken some finance classes that may be relevant to this course (though I am not an expert in this area), and I have some experience with management consulting. Additionally, I am very interested in the legal side of this class. Currently I am taking a constitutional history course, and—while that may not be directly relevant to the material in MfS— it is something I find particularly fascinating. Moreover, I enjoy writing about legal topics which may be helpful as we draft materials for our lawyer and VC meetings.

1. Learn about funding for biotech startups 2. Get an idea for how to pursue NSF funding and SBIR grants 3. Networking

I run a successful photography business in Cambridge called DOB Photography

I have a lot of experience with mechanical systems and marketing! If people need technical advice for a product or good I'm happy to help.

1. tips for how to partner with lawyers 2. learn more about tactical fundraising tips

Sun protection is really important to me and see how hard it is to adopt healthy protection habits. I'm really proud of the sunscreen product I've made with my lab partner because it takes many of the painpoints out of the sunscreen experience

experience & coursework

I'm interested in one day working for a startup company, so I want to learn more backround! Also my friends took this class last semester and liked it

Building a portable, oven-sized device that can manufacture drug pills on the spot

Total newbie and eager to learn

15+ years entreprenuer. Worked with startups in helping them from inception till scale. Love creative mission driven ideas.

Term sheet best practices with learning the right way to negotiate. Be able to also read deals to understand if it would have a long term impact.

My name is Allison Pinto and I am a Course 2A-Product Design major with a minor in 15-1. Outside of classes, I am an athlete on MIT's women's lacrosse team and I am also very involved with Camp Kesem. I like to think of myself as someone who is creative and hardworking and always looking to learn! I'm excited to be taking this class with all of you!

I want to learn more about the start-up environment and investing, especially as I am starting a job in consulting this summer. I am also really interested in how we can improve the start-up environment so more women and minorities enter the space. I think this class will be an amazing learning opportunity, so I am very excited to be a part of it!

For one of my summer internships, I worked for a non-profit startup called the Okoa Project, which builds ambulance trailers for areas of Africa with limited access to healthcare. I helped them improve their ambulance design and got to travel to Tanzania and meet the people in the community we were helping! I wasn't privy to a lot of the financial information as an intern, but what I did learn was so interesting! I also loved the work and the people!

I would like to contribute my experiences from working on a start-up and some of my project management skills!

I will be in Michigan until April 20th and then in Cambridge for the rest of the semester.

Corporate Innovation | Travel Technology | Computer Science | Social Impact | India | Dance | Traveling | Networking | Movies | Board Games

Pivoting careers from corporate-job to social-entrepreneurship, background is techno-functional but missing the money matters

I worked on the Amadeus Next team which was a startup engagement program by Amadeus (a travel-technology giant) where I led all things technical - from technical assessment to leading tech deliveries to enabling connections between tech teams, etc. Beyond this, I also did a ton of pre-sales, project-management & also managed the website and mobile app for the initiative.

Project Management + Product-related things

Wanted to know how to make good relationship with VC and secure money as startup with good term.

Investment in Shale gas development in USA

Know the perspective of business because of my background of investment business, which can be leveraged to contribute to team.

I am a senior in studying robotics and mechanical engineering with a special interest in entrepreneurship. I am currently in the early stages of developing my own startup and am excited to learn all I can through this class to take with me in my endeavors.

I would like to learn more about the basics of funding a startup as well as gain experience with lawyers and VC. As a woman I am already at a disadvantage with making connections in entrepreneurship, so this class can help me get a leg up and be better prepared (as well as get to learn from two really cool femal entrepreneurs)

Last semester my 2.009 team built a business around our own hurricane relief raft and were able to build a working final prototype (that we later took onto the Charles)

I have experience with project management as well as working with lawyers since I formerly interned with a law firm.