In this talk, we summarize how Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship supports students in their journey to build their entrepreneurial spirit and skills.

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3. MIT’s Entrepreneurship Legacy
Over 30K companies, 4.6M jobs, $2T revenues/yr

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

5. Mission of Trust Center
At the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, 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.
The focus of our education is for 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.
We accept and welcome our leadership role to advance the field
at MIT as well as globally.

6. Principles of Operation
MIT Standard of Excellence and 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 acorss the
Instititute and beyond when appropriate.
Diversity:
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.

7. We help create entrepreneurs,
not companies.

8. Program Pillars
Heart: Mindset
Head: Knowledge
Hands: Capability
Home: Community

9. Customer (Student) Personas
Exploratory/
Curious
Ready-
to-Go
RTG - 1 Entrepreneurship
Amplifier
Corporate
Entrepreneur
Interested but has
no driving idea or
team … in explor-
atory mode …
starts here but will
migrate to another
state or out of
entrepreneurship.
Chomping at the
bit and just wants
help to get going
… has idea, tech,
and / or core of
team.
Wants to be in a
startup but does
not want to be a
founder.
Interested in under-
standing enough to
successfully promote in
their organization (e.g.,
gov, corp, family
business), but is not the
direct venture-creating
entrepreneur.
Wants to be an
entrepreneur in a
large organization.
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10. The MTC4ME Entrepreneurship Ramp
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Inspiration:
Idea,
Technology
Application:
Extra-Curricular
Acceleration:
Fully Immersive
Capstone
Fundamentals:
Classroom
Exploration:
Workshops,
Grants, EIR’s

11. The Experience for the Student …
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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”

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19. Academics
About Entrepreneurship
15.360, FJ, VE, StartMIT
Become an Entrepreneur
15.390, MIT fuse
Skills
Partial Portfolio
Industry
Partial Portfolio
In Company Experience
Partial Portfolio
• Strategy
• Finance
• Fundraising
• Legal
• IP
• Product Dev
• Marketing
• HR
• Sales
• Scaling
• Energy
• Healthcare
• BioTech
• FinTech
• Social*
• Dev World*
• Real Estate
• Media
• E-Lab
• G-Lab
• S-Lab
• DE-Lab
All taught with academic and practitioner faculty wherever possible
providing a rigorous/disciplined understanding and skill set

20. Programs

21. Student Clubs

22. Events
Diane Green, CEO, Google’s Cloud
Services division (former CEO, VM Ware)
Prof. Bengt Holmstrom,
Nobel laureate in Economics
Carolyn Tisch Blodgett,
SVP and Head of
Global Brand Marketing, Peloton

23. Infrastructure & Agents
Orbit.mit.edu
Nick Meyer
MIT, 5 Start Ups,
YC alum, hipster
Trish Cotter
Doctorate, 2
Garage to IPO,
Netezza
Operations
Elaine Chen
MIT, 5+ Start Ups,
Corporate,
Hardware /
Software/ Mfg
Kit Hickey
MIT, Co-Founder
Ministry of
Supply, Finance
guru
Will Sanchez
MIT Ph.D., 2
startups,
Telefonica and
CIA
Founder dating
Job posting
Knowledgebase
Community
EIR office hours
Deals and more

24. It takes a village

25. Content* Success
• External: Harvard, Yale, UPenn,
UColorado, UNC, Duke, McGill, Kings
College, Scotland, Mexico,
Copenhagen, Norway, Poland & many,
many more
19 languages & growing
* - “content” = frameworks, course content, facilities, advisory and processes

26. Beyond startups:
Corporate Entrepreneurship

27. The Growing MIT Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

28. MIT is just the beginning
Universities
Corporates
Co-working
spaces
Mentors
Entrepreneurs
Investors
Incubators /
acceleratorsInfra-
structure
Govern-
ment