This year’s cohort featured 23 teams and 68 students. In my eight months at MIT, I’ve seen that over and over again.” “Because I know when entrepreneurs decide to do something innovative, they’re willing to work incredibly hard to make it happen.
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“I was very impressed when I learned these students gave up their entire summer to work full time on their ventures, but honestly I wasn’t surprised,” Kornbluth told the audience.
The event also served as an introduction to MIT’s entrepreneurial community for MIT’s new president, Sally Kornbluth. We’re hoping to inspire a lot of people.” The entrepreneurs presenting today were sitting in your seats last year. “We’re going to celebrate some great companies tonight, and it’s also a day to bring in new talent to be up on stage next year. “This is the best day of the year for entrepreneurship at MIT,” announced Aulet, who is also the Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The tone for the evening was set early, with MIT’s cheerleaders and Tim the Beaver firing up the audience ahead of Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet’s signature run through the audience and leap on stage for opening remarks. Now in its 12th year, Demo Day represents the culmination of a summer in which students work full-time on new ventures under the guidance of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
For two whirlwind hours Friday, students took the stage in front of a packed Kresge Auditorium to celebrate their startup milestones in an event that was half board meeting, half pep rally. Anyone trying to get a feel for MIT’s culture of entrepreneurship would do well to start their journey at the delta v summer accelerator’s Demo Day.
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