Led by Cory Siskind, CEO & Founder of Base Operations, this session covers how to plan a product pilot in a frontier market while on campus, identifying an on-site partner, and collecting data. Cory has successfully launched a product, raised money, and completed the Techstars Impact Accelerator in Austin, TX. Lunch will be available.
Domingo Godoy, CEO of Frogmi and Imagina is hosting an Ask Me Anything lunch on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 11:45 AM - 12:55 PM in the Legatum Center. Domingo finished his MBA in 2014. This is a fantastic opportunity to ask Domingo about the MIT resources that were most useful to him and his entrepreneurial journey.
Led by Elaine Chen, Senior Lecturer and Entrepreneur in Residence, this session covers the nuts and bolts of interview and surveying customers and end users of your product/service. This hour long session is an opportunity to learn and practice new techniques for gathering data that informs the design of your solution.
Join the Legatum Center for an interactive conversation on how entrepreneurs are scaling access to education through technologies in emerging markets. Mercy Ndambuki, Moderator Sam Bhattacharyya, Co-Founder, dotLearn.org Michael Beelier, Founder, One Room Safinah Arshad Ali, Social Robotics Group Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Light refreshments will be available.
Aline Pezente, Co-founder of TrAIve Finance, will present on how she and her team built a fintech company that serves middle market farmers in Brazil. Pizza will be available.
Open Mic Africa @ MIT is an interactive speaker series featuring leaders from some of Africa's most innovative tech startups. Jake Bright, Techcrunch contributor, will be on campus to moderate a conversation with Marieme Diop, venture capital investor at Orange Digital Ventures. Venture capital and non-equity funding of African tech ventures has more than tripled over the …