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Digging Into the Other Side of Startup Leadership With Maria Thomas, Former CEO of Etsy

"For me, it is about trying to figure it all out. Trying to figure out the business model, leadership, or the technology and more."

Feb 22, 2016

Keytar Bear Could Deliver a Valentine's Day Surprise to Your Special Someone Thanks to LovePop

Here's a chance to make your Valentine's Day extra special, Boston-style: Lovepop, the Cambridge-based maker of 3D pop-up greeting cards, is teaming up with the one and only Keytar Bear to hand-deliver Valentine's Day-themed Lovepop cards to a lucky few people working in downtown Boston on Friday, Feb. 12.

Feb 03, 2016

Connect with the innovators: The Harvard Startup Career Fair

Feb 02, 2016

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What I Learned About Leading the I-Lab VIP Programming Effort, and What’s Next

Jan 26, 2016

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‘No’ Is Not a Dead End

You have to be comfortable with no’s while trying to get your way to a “yes.”

Jan 22, 2016

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The Ultimate Success of Startup Programs Requires a Long Term Strategy and a Safe Place to Fail

With early-stage ventures, connection, cooperation, and experimentation are sacred.

Jan 12, 2016

Unshrinkit team pitching on the show Shark Tank

The Stories Behind Unshrinkit and LovePop in the Shark Tank

Dec 15, 2015

A business plan, not a curriculum, is key when building a university innovation center

The Harvard Innovation Labs are never complacent and always trying to improve upon our own minimal viable product. We test it, tweak it, and, if we need to, pivot our thinking. All the things that ventures do, we need to do as an organization.

Dec 11, 2015

The Alumni Venture-Focused Harvard Launch Lab Triples in Size

"The next phase of Allston’s innovation story is just beginning."

Dec 08, 2015

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Harvard i-lab Renovates 'Maker Space' and Prototyping Lab

The Harvard i-lab has renovated its da Vinci Room & prototyping lab. The expansion supports the "maker-space” and hardware design needs of student startups.

Nov 24, 2015

‘It depends’ may not be the answer you are looking for, but for many startups, it’s the best one

What everyone is searching for is a clear and relevant answer, specific to their problem, derived from some mythical how-to-build-a-startup manual. And that just doesn’t exist.

Nov 19, 2015

Different Perspectives Come Together to Form Better Ideas

Homogeneity is the enemy of creativity and innovation. This is nowhere more true than with the early days of a business.

Nov 11, 2015