Thursday, April 26, 2012

Harvard Embraces the Startup Culture


Earlier this year, according to Fortune, a team of six Harvard Business School MBA students was brainstorming ideas for a new startup business. They came up with a peculiar takeoff on all the online dating sites: a Facebook application for Jewish mothers to set their children up with potential marriage material….

With $3,000 of seed capital from Harvard Business School, Yenta was launched last week along with as many as 150 other new startups in what might well be the largest single experiment in entrepreneurship ever undertaken. The so-called "micro-businesses" range from a company called Kinsey that sells "premium undergarments" for men to another called 4n Friend that is creating an online network that matches language tutors with students all over the world.

It's part of a bold and highly unusual initiative within Harvard's new MBA curriculum…..

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/24/harvard-b-school-startup-boot-camp/

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