Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship
Harvard Innovation Labs is an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni as they explore innovation and entrepreneurship. Since its founding in 2011, it has helped more than 5,000 founders from all 13 Harvard schools build ventures with global impact. The podcast shares conversations, insights and stories from that community of founders, mentors and innovators. It highlights practical lessons on starting and growing game-changing companies.
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2026 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge
The Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge celebrates alumni and student founders from all 13 Harvard schools who are turning ideas into impact. On May 6, Harvard’s most innovative ventures won a share of over $500,000 in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation.Uploaded 11-05-26Learn more about the President's Innovation Challenge and meet this year's finalists: https://innovationlabs.har
Harvard i-lab | President's Challenge Mixer and Global Issues
The i-lab is proud to host The President's Challenge, a university-wide initiative to develop entrepreneurial solutions to the world's most important social problems. Uploaded 14-03-12Sponsored by President Drew Faust, the Challenge aims to demonstrate and develop the University's commitment to social entrepreneurship and the collaboration of students across all its disciplines. Over the course of
Harvard i-lab | Maureen Bisognano on "Innovation in Health Care: Achieving the Triple Aim"
With US health care expenditures at $2.7 trillion per year, we would be facing significant cost pressures even if our systems were producing health outcomes superior to those of comparable nations. That our outcomes are worse indicates that we are facing a crisis.Uploaded 24-09-13Join Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, as she highlights how innovation
Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- BroadLeaf
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Muhammad Yunus: The Founding of Grameen Bank
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his w
Why Do We Accept Shoes That Don’t Fit? | Maeve Wang, IAMBIC
Why do we still accept shoes that don’t fit—when everything else is personalized?That question led Maeve Wang (Harvard College ’11) to build IAMBIC.Uploaded 07-05-26As co-founder and CEO, Maeve is rethinking one of the most universal products we use every day: shoes. Today, two out of three people wear shoes that don’t fit. By combining AI and advanced manufacturing, IAMBIC creates shoes made for
Harvard i-lab | Leveling the Playing Field: Software Changing the Role of Coaches
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in th
Harvard i-lab | i-lab residents describe their Big Idea
The Harvard Innovation Lab asked some of our student residents about their Big Idea, how it came about, and how the i-lab helped to support their venture. We think the video helps to showcase the activities of students taking advantage of the i-lab's resources. What's your Big Idea?Uploaded 04-06-12Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Innovation Insights from Megan Smith at Harvard i-lab
Megan Smith is the CEO of shift7 and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2014-2017).Uploaded 09-07-24In this video, Mitch Weiss (Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at HBS) interviews Megan Smith about her journey of innovation and impact.The fireside chat was part of a series of events at Harvard Innovation Labs centered around the story of General Magic (www.generalmagicthemov
President's Challenge Presentation School Yourself
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President's Challenge Presentation Balanced
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Harvard Venture Stories - Abridge News
Laura Carpenter's company, Abridge News, makes it easier for people to explore a range of opinions on a current news topic. The idea behind the multiple opinions, Carpenter says, is engaging with what she calls the “empathy problem” in contemporary discourse.Uploaded 11-06-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Almost Married Off at 12. Now She’s Changing Thousands of Lives. | Aria Mustary, Mai Soli Foundation
At 12, Aria Mustary was nearly forced into marriage.Now she’s helping thousands of girls rewrite their futures.Uploaded 07-05-26Aria Mustary (Harvard Graduate School of Education ’24), Co-Founder and President of the Mai Soli Foundation, turned her lived experience into a mission.Mai Soli equips girls with financial literacy, leadership skills, and confidence—already helping prevent over 500 child
Value Props: Create a Product People Will Actually Buy
One of the top reasons many startups fails is surprisingly simple: Their value proposition isn’t compelling enough to prompt a customer to buy. Maybe they have too many other competing priorities. Or the existing solutions, while imperfect, are “good enough.” Whatever the reason, the product doesn’t provide enough value to spark customer action and sustain a business. Nailing your value prop – the
President's Challenge Presentation Revolving Fund Pharmacy
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Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- TraumaLink
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VC Fundraising Advice for Black Founders
As a capstone to the 2023 NextGen Accelerator, a founder bootcamp for early-stage student founders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and universities in Sub-Saharan Africa, four leading Black venture capitalists shared their perspectives on the fundraising landscape for Black founders. Uploaded 22-08-23The panel featured Kofi Ampadu, partner at a16z; Daniel Acheampong (Harv
Harvard President Alan Garber Remarks | 2026 President's Innovation Challenge
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The “Spermpocalypse,” A Problem No One Was Solving | Khaled Kteily, Legacy
Male fertility is declining—but no one was talking about it.Khaled Kteily (Harvard Kennedy School ’16) decided to change that.Uploaded 07-05-26After experiencing the stigma and discomfort of fertility testing firsthand, Khaled saw a problem hiding in plain sight. As founder and CEO of Legacy, he’s helping men better understand their fertility and health—serving tens of thousands of patients.A fina
Harvard i-lab | Food Truck Day and Tour of the i-lab
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Harvard i-lab | Why You're Over-Thinking Your UI/UX with Rohan Puri and Cristoforo Magliozzi
In this workshop we take you through the steps in thinking about (and preempting) user interaction and user experience design. Then we outline ways in which we can evaluate, test, and analyze interactions to pivot designs leanly. This session is highly interactive and uses examples from real startups.Uploaded 25-09-13Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Harvard i-lab | Smaller, Lighter and Ubiquitous: The Next Generation of Fitness Trackers
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in th
Harvard i-lab | "Green Card Strategies and New Opportunities for Foreign Entrepreneurs"
Jeff Goldman an Immigration Lawyer from Boston taught a workshop entitled "Green Card Strategies and New Opportunities for Foreign Entrepreneurs," in April 2012 at the Harvard innovation lab. Uploaded 04-09-12In his presentation, Goldman discussed how the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that the H-1B nonimmigrant and National Interest Waiver immigrant visa categor
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 5: Wrap Up | Michael Skok and Geoffrey Moore
Presenting to a full house, renowned author, Geoffrey Moore, and Michael Skok took a closer look into gaining an unfair competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. The event commenced with a recap of observations and learning from the previous five workshops, followed by insights from Geoffrey Moore into the secrets of entrepreneurship and business building, including a preview of Moore's latest boo
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 3: Business Model - Michael Skok
In Part 3 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok helped students to think thorugh the three aspects of business model creation—identifying your C.O.R.E. value, finding Multipliers for growth and Levers for cost economies. This allows you to have much better odds of building a company that returns value disproporti
Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- Healthy Motives
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a state-of-the-art wet laboratory and co-working space for high-potential biotech and life science ventures at Harvard.Uploaded 15-09-25Learn more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/labs/pagliuca-harvard-life-labVideography by Owen Mack www.cobrandit.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Turning Ideas Into Impact: ArtLifting
Get inspired by ArtLifting's innovation journey since their time at the Harvard Innovation Labs. Founded by Liz Powers '10, ArtLifting is a social enterprise that champions artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity. Learn more at artlifting.com.Uploaded 02-05-24Videography:Aaron James SanchezPatrick FogartySamuel Mironko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard Innovation Labs | Imagine
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Harvard Venture Stories - Nix Biosensors
A venture funder turned entrepreneur, Meridith Unger has used her experience on both sides of the pitch table to become an expert on selling her company to investors and competition judges alike. Unger's Harvard Launch Lab-based venture, Nix Biosensors, is developing wearable hydration sensors for the consumer and military markets.Uploaded 24-05-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.
Muhammad Yunus: How to Approach Social Business
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 2: Company Formation - Michael Skok
In Part 2 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok argues that ideas aren't worth much without great people to back them up. It's human capital that makes the difference between good and great companies, which is why attracting and retaining the right people and getting them dialed into the right vision is utterly es
Harvard i-lab | Low-Fidelity Data Mining for Customer Insights
How can we mine survey, sales and customer data to uncover new insights into the lives and needs of our users, without a strong background in statistical analysis or code development?Uploaded 04-12-14In this session, Almighty CSO Ian Fitzpatrick will walk through approaches to finding anomalies, commonalities and outliers in data sets — with a focus on using these to drive better qualitative resea
Harvard i-lab | "A Debate: Business is Essential to Effectively Deliver Public Services to the Poor"
HKS Professor Lant Prichett and HBS Professor Michael Chu debated the most effective mechanisms to alleviate poverty in a debate moderated by The Fletcher School's Nicholas P. Sullivan. The emerging social finance space and other market-based solutions were challenged by more traditional philanthropic approaches to solve poverty. This debate offered a great cross-campus initiative that enhanced a
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Go to Market Strategies
Find out why it can be twice as important to get your Go-to-Market right, even if you've engineered a great product. Get to understand the strategic and tactical frameworks needed to enter a market and occupy a dominant position. Learn how to develop your "brand essence" and integrate other key marketing assets so that you can pursue an impactful sales and marketing approach.Uploaded 03-01-13Lea
Harvard i-lab | Grand Opening
The Harvard Innovation Lab was opened on November 18, 2011. During our celebration, Joseph B. Lassiter III, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, and Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Lab, Dean Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School, President Drew Faust, Harvard University, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, City of Boston, spoke and welcomed the i-lab as a new
President's Challenge Presentation Zoom
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Harvard i-lab | Harvard Launch Lab Promotional Video
The Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) is excited to continue to grow the resources around entrepreneurship for Harvard students, and Alumni. Following three years of growth, and more than 500 unique ventures, the i-lab is opening a “OneHarvard” inspired prototype co-working space adjacent to the i-lab for high potential Harvard Alumni startup ventures, called the Harvard Innovation Launch Lab.Upload
Harvard i-lab | Artist as Entrepreneur: A Conversation with Wynton Marsalis
"Artist as Entrepreneur" A Conversation with Wynton MarsalisUploaded 15-02-12The i-lab hosted a conversation entitled "Artist as Entrepreneur" with Wynton Marsalis, and HBS professors Nancy Koehn, Rohit Deshpande, and Mukti Khaire, moderated by Mihir Desai on February 7, 2012. This conversation was open to the Harvard community and members of the public. Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed
Harvard i-lab | A Deep Bench: Elite Athletes and the Expanding Marketplace for Sports Technologies
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in th
Harvard i-lab | What: What is Cultural Entrepreneurship? What does the Challenge Entail?
Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Marvin Bower Fellow, led a workshop discussing how entrepreneurship can be used as a tool for expanding the role of the arts in society and supporting arts and artists in a sustainable manner. Her talk answered the question: 'what exactly is a cultural entrepreneur' and also gave an overview of how the Dea
President's Innovation Challenge Takeaways
The Harvard Innovation Labs invites student founders from all 13 Harvard schools to apply for the President's Innovation Challenge (PIC) by December 5 for a chance to win a share of $515,000 in funding for their ventures, thanks to the @BertarelliFoundation.Uploaded 03-12-24This year’s theme, Redefining What’s Possible, celebrates the bold, ambitious work happening across campus as student founde
What It Takes: Vision, Mission and Culture
Human capital separates great companies from good ones; ideas are worth very little without the right people to drive them forward. That’s why attracting the right people while unifying them behind an inspiring vision and mission is essential to any significant venture. Uploaded 18-03-23In this workshop, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, Michael Skok, founding partner
Harvard i-lab | 2013 President's Challenge Presentation -- Sightline Productions
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Harvard i-lab | Deans' Food System Challenge Kickoff
Join HLS Dean Martha Minow and keynote speaker Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, in officially kicking off the 2015 Deans' Food System Challenge. The Challenge invites creative and entrepreneurial students to develop innovative ideas to improve the health, social, and environmental outcomes of the food system in the United States and around the world.Uploaded 03-12-14Students will have
President's Challenge Presentation SPOUTS of Water
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Harvard i-lab | Entrepreneurship 101 with Gordon Jones
Did you know about the multi-million dollar facility for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation? Want to learn about the Harvard innovation lab? Interested in entrepreneurship and want to know about programs and resources available to you? Hear Gordon Jones, the Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation lab, and Jodi Goldstein, the Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, describe
Harvard University President's Innovation Awards Ceremony - May 2, 2018
The seventh annual President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony was a memorable evening. We celebrated innovation and entrepreneurship. We said farewell to President Drew Faust and thanked her for creating the Challenge and the One Harvard spirit of cross-disciplinary collaboration that inspired the creation of Harvard Innovation Labs. We heard pitches from 15 remarkable venture teams. And, of
Turning Ideas into Impact: Chaku Foods
Get inspired by the impact @ChakuFoodsis having on farmers in Africa since winning the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge in 2021.Uploaded 02-05-24Videography:Aaron James SanchezPatrick FogartySamuel MironkoMisper Apawu (Ghana)Dennis Nipah (Ghana) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Harvard i-lab | Keynote: Why Should Society Care About the Quantified Athlete?
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in th
How to Come up With a Startup Idea
Coming up with a startup idea isn’t about waiting for lightning to strike — it’s about tuning into the world, and your own reactions to it, with greater clarity. Rebekah Emanuel, Senior Advisor for Social Impact and Climate at the Harvard Innovation Labs, shares practical strategies you can use to spark meaningful, viable ventures and turn ideas into impact.Uploaded 01-10-25Follow us:LinkedIn: /ha
Harvard i-lab | Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff
Join us to kick off the 2015 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff with Katrine Bosley, CEO of Editas Medicine. She will share her thoughts on the key factors of leading successful companies and advice on how to build effective teams and execute strategies to commercialize technologies that will ultimately impacting patients and their care.Uploaded 03-12-14Also joining us will be Aldat
Muhammad Yunus: Social Business
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his
Muhammad Yunus: Microfinance vs. Conventional Banking
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his
2023 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony
We’re incredibly proud of all our ventures who are chasing dreams and blueprinting a better tomorrow. The participants in the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge are a prime example of the perseverance and agility required to do this work. Our awards ceremony was attended in-person and virtually by over 2,000 innovators from across the globe. With the generous support of the Bertarelli Founda
Designing a Customer-Centric Business Model
Simply defined, a business model is how you deliver value to customers and how you make money in return. The most successful business models capture value in concert with the customer. In this session, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, you’ll learn how to do just that. Michael Skok, founding partner at Underscore VC, will share how to identify your core business value
Harvard i-lab | Entrepreneurial Ventures in Silicon Valley
The Harvard Innovation Lab led a student trip to Silicon Valley in January 2012. This field-based program provided an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the entrepreneurial environment of Silicon Valley, with a focus on the consumer internet sector. 36 students from across Harvard participated, with faculty from HBS and SEAS leading the trip.Uploaded 15-02-12Learn more about your ad
Harvard i-lab | What Makes Boston's Start-Up Scene Special? with Jeff Bussgang
HBS Senior Lecturer and Flybridge General Partner Jeff Bussgang joined us to deliver a "What Makes Boston's Start-Up Scene Special?" Uploaded 11-02-13Jeff is a former entrepreneur (cofounder/president of Upromise and VP at Open Market), author (Mastering the VC Game - www.jeffbussgang.com), blogger (www.SeeingBothSides.com) and teaches the popular EC class, 'Launching Technology Ventures.' He was
Turning Ideas into Impact: Myspeech
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Harvard i-lab | Building your Startup Team: Novel Approaches for an Agile World
Building your startup team is different from team building in a large organization. Hint, it's not about titles, roles and experience. Jeffrey Beir will share some tips from awesome entrepreneurs, and some difficult lessons learned as well.Uploaded 03-12-14Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like
Harvard i-lab | 2013 President's Challenge Presentation -- PlenOptika
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Harvard i-lab | Dividing The Founder Pie with Jeffrey Beir of seed2A
It's not an easy conversation to have, but you need to have it. Jeffrey presented an approach for having the discussion with your co-founders and suggests a methodology for dividing up the pie. He also spent some time on capitalization and dilution, and what to expect to happen to your ownership as you raise capital.Uploaded 11-02-13Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harva
Harvard Alumni Launch Lab X
The Alumni Launch Lab supports alumni innovators from all 13 Harvard schools, fostering a global ecosystem of entrepreneurs who are truly changing the world. Uploaded 18-07-25Learn more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/labs/alumni-launch-labVideography by Owen Mack www.cobrandit.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 4: Going To Market - Michael Skok
In Part 4 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok describes the fundamentals of building a go-to-market strategy for your business.Uploaded 07-05-12You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mjskokLearn more about t
Harvard i-lab | Data Privacy and Security Strategies for Life Science and Tech Startups
Note: There will NOT be a Longwood to ilab shuttle.Uploaded 02-12-14Information is a valuable asset to any life sciences or technology venture. This substantive session will help to frame data-related limitations, systems and practices that new companies are likely to encounter. The collection, analysis, storage and disclosure of information is often critical for developing and commercializing pro
i-lab Spotlight | Naya Studios
“Our world is more isolated and lonely than ever before. We need more remote work opportunities and a greater sense of connectedness and meaning. Naya strives to be a digital studio and ecosystem that can facilitate a sense of community, collaboration, and connection across the world at a time when we need it most.” - Saad Rajan and Vivek HV, of @naya__studioUploaded 22-04-20.To learn more about i
Harvard i-lab | Founding a Tech Startup in Silicon Valley -- The Good, Bad, and Ugly with Raj Kapoor
This is a must-see talk and discussion with successful entrepreneur/VC Raj Kapoor (HBS 96). Raj is the Managing Director of the Mayfield Fund, the cofounder/CEO of Snapfish, and now founder of "cofounder.co." He discusses his new model, cofounder.co, which is designed to help new entrepreneurs cofound companies in the Bay Area, giving them the benefit of experience and his broad network. Uploade
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Roadmap to Success
Michael Skok will share his roadmap of what is needed to build a startup, milestones along the way, and how to pull that pitch together to get the venture attention and funding your idea deserves. After the workshop you should have a better understanding of:Uploaded 01-12-14The holistic checklist to think through your venture in a business like plan.What matters to a VC/Investor.How to think about
Harvard i-lab | "Evaluating Your Startup Career Opportunity" with Eric Paley and Russ Wilcox
The Harvard Innovation Lab welcomed Eric Paley, Managing Partner at Founder Collective, and Russ Wilcox, founder E Ink Corporation for a candid discussion about startups as an alternate career, as well as how to evaluate an opportunity at a startup relative to a more traditional job offer.Uploaded 07-05-12Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twi
Harvard i-lab | "Mastering the VC Game: How to Raise Your First Round of Capital" with Jeff Bussgang
Jeff Bussgang presented a Skillshare class entitled "Mastering the VC Game: How to Raise Your First Round of Capital" at the Harvard innovation lab on April 3, 2012. Jeff is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. Uploaded 26-04-12Students learned about the startup financing landscape, how to find investors, how to pitch them, how to unde
Harvard i-lab | Cultural Entrepreneurship in NYC trip video
The Harvard i-lab sponsored a faculty-led Winter Break trip to New York City for 37 students from across Harvard University. The trip focused on cultural entrepreneurship in NYC: new ventures in fashion, food, fine arts, performing arts, music, video entertainment, literary fiction, etc. Harvard students explored how new ventures in the creative arts are launched, and how proximity to NYC's rich e
Harvard i-lab | Increasing Impact through Measurement and Continuous Improvement
Why do nonprofits, social enterprises and values-driven companies need a measurement and evaluation system? How do you go about measuring the impact your venture has? Chris Addy, a partner at the Bridgespan Group, will help you understand the critical aspects of measurement and evaluation for mission-aligned ventures. The workshop will discuss the reasons for measuring and how it relates to improv
How to Build a Strong Startup Team: Co-founders, Equity, Culture + First Hires
Building the right team is one of the hardest and most important parts of starting a venture. Rym Baouendi, director of alumni engagement, and Peter Gladstone, senior advisor for B2C startups, share practical advice on what founders should keep in mind when it comes to co-founders, teammates, and equity.Uploaded 09-09-25Read more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/how-to/how-to-build-a-stron
Harvard i-lab | Mobile Workshop: Social Sharing and Proximity
Technology Track: Mobile Sharing and Proximity with Brett Martin, CEO and Co-founder of Sonar.Uploaded 20-02-13Social sharing has exploded in recent years and is now rapidly shifting to mobile devices and, in many instances, becoming increasingly implicit. Location is tagged to much of what we share and more and more we've connected networks and set up mechanisms to make sharing frictionless and i
Harvard i-lab | Eric Ries - Startup Lessons Learned
The Rock Center and Harvard i-lab present: Eric Ries speaking about his new book, "The Lean Startup." Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Eric Riesis the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. Uploaded 13-03-12After Ries' talk, Tom Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepre
Disability is Diversity: Stories of Art and Innovation
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we had the opportunity to learn stories of inclusive innovation from artists, entrepreneurs, and operators. Featuring @ArtLifting, @Google, @HarvardHBS, and @Harvardilab.Uploaded 06-12-22Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Mastering the Gift of Mutual Mentorship
Are you seeking a mentor but not sure of how best to leverage that relationship? Have you ever been in a mentor relationship and wondered how best to serve the mentee? In this workshop Michael Skok, a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, shows you how to develop best practices and get the most out of mentorship.Uploaded 07-11-14Want to dive deeper into Startup Secrets? Explore the intera
Harvard i-lab | Harvard Startup Career Fair
This educational and career-focused event allowed students to network with representatives from entrepreneurial and start-up organizations, learn about jobs and internships, and discover exciting opportunities available in the start-up field. Over 100 participating organizations took part in the fair, and over 1000 students from across all the Harvard schools attended the event. Uploaded 20-02-13L
Harvard i-lab | Increasing Your Creative Capacity
Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But how exactly does one increase their ability to think and act creatively? Uploaded 05-11-14In this session, award winning educator and artist Art Sherwyn will walk through the creative process and illustrate methods for training the intellect how to gain passage into the world of creative thought;
How to Build a Product that Scales into a Company
“Build it, and they will come” is a dangerous mindset in the startup world. Even if you create a great product, building a successful company around it can be nuanced and challenging. In addition to product development, you need to find and prove product-market fit—then repeat and scale through sales and marketing.Uploaded 05-04-23About the Speaker:Chris Gardner is a partner at Underscore VC, a Bo
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