This is more than four years ago, I flew back to Shanghai from the United States to see a report in the World Daily, feeling the blog.
When I first started professional venture capital, I used the Internet to get investment-related knowledge from MIT's entrepreneurship forums and PPT lectures. It is said that the school has 50 courses related to entrepreneurship, invited outstanding alumni and social elites to give lectures every year, and within 10 years of graduation, entrepreneurship has become a tradition of the school. According to the Kauffman Foundation, MIT graduates start businesses that generate GDP equivalent to the world's 24th largest economy. Although the alumni wealth list is the richest Harvard alumni, but from the perspective of innovation and entrepreneurship, MIT is definitely ahead of Harvard, MIT's motto is to use "Mind and Hand" to change the world.The door is five points, not important, the key is to look at a person's creativity, hands-on ability, thinking and problem-solving skills.From the following little story, you can see that these students are very creative.This is exactly what Chinese education is lacking.In the past 10 years, he has participated in many schools' innovation and entrepreneurship lectures and competition counseling, and the overall impression is that domestic innovation and entrepreneurship is biased in form, competition and surface articles. Student engagement is higher than graduate students.Because there is a qualification for research.The school also pays more attention to the terminology in terms of funding and teacher investment.And foreign countries pay more attention to ability training, the following story is very illustrative.
For just $148, MIT students complete 20,000-meter exploration video
Oliver Yeh, a 20-year-old Chinese-American student at MIT, and Justin Lee, a 23-year-old graduate student, carefully combined to successfully send an indigenous craft into inner space to capture the arcs of the Earth and wonderful images of space.
According to the compilation report of the English media on the 22nd, the two creative MIT students, with amateur interest, made their own "space camera" to shoot in the air.The idea was first proposed by Oliver Ye, a senior majoring in computer and computational engineering at MIT, whose bold vision was considered impossible by many, but supported by his friend Justin Lee, a mechanical engineering graduate student.Using their spare time, they carefully designed, installed and commissioned the aircraft mounted in Tufa.
The two bought a Canon camera on eBay, bundled the camera into a foam insulation box, and made a small opening on one side of the box so that the camera lens could be exposed.In order to allow the captured images to be received from the ground, they also attached a Motorola Boost phone to the camera, the phone's GPS positioning function allows them to determine the specific location of the camera from the ground, easy to recover the camera and data.
To enhance the phone's signal transmission capabilities, they also equipped the phone with a wireless router.As the camera vehicle rises to high altitude, it will encounter a low temperature atmosphere of minus 40 degrees, which may cause the mobile phone battery to malfunction, and two Chinese students use warm handbags to protect the battery.They also fitted a parachute to the flight device.They also attached a note to the insulation box that read, "If anyone finds this, call the owner (of the phone number they left behind) for $40."" They also specifically stressed that "the contents of this device are 100% safe, non-toxic and harmless, and will not catch fire."This is a college student's surgical research project..... 。
Consider that when a high-altitude balloon rises to the stratosphere about 17.5 miles (28 kilometers) above the ground, it explodes due to air pressure.They attached the parachute to the thermal insulation box containing the mobile phone, which automatically opened the parachute and landed slowly and safely when the balloon exploded.
To prevent the balloon from landing in the Atlantic Ocean east of Boston, they drove more than 60 miles from the school for a lift test.
After repeated ground testing and commissioning, they drove to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 60 miles from Boston, at 11:45 p.m. on Sept. 2.At 11:45, they put their own simple flight camera into a helium-filled high-altitude balloon and the Tudor vehicle took off!The balloon floated in the air for more than five hours.
Unfortunately, the two high-quality Chinese students waited more than four hours and did not receive any signals from the mobile phone in the balloon.Thinking that the experiment had failed and all their efforts were wasted, the two returned to school with frustration and were surprised to find that their aircraft had landed in Worcester, 25 miles from the launch site, when they looked at the information from Justin Lee's dorm computer.They drove to the area immediately, and with their familiarity with GPS location technology, they quickly found their aircraft and cameras next to a construction site in the city.They were especially surprised that the camera was intact and the heat preservation box was still hot.The photos downloaded from the camera are very clear and wonderful.Their experiment was declared successful.
When they uploaded the trial reports and some beautiful photos to the cable TV iReport website, it caused a sensation, huge hits and frequent reprints, and many readers around the world recognized the two daring technology stars.MIT Entrepreneurship Education (ZT)
MIT's entrepreneurship education has been very successful, producing a large number of successful entrepreneurs.Entrepreneurship education is carried out mainly through the establishment of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, the start-up planning competition, and the establishment of the official website, the MTI Enterprise Forum.The courses offered by the Entrepreneurship Center cover all stages of the entrepreneurial process, and the teaching methods are diverse, including case studies, entrepreneurial exercises, student exchanges, and venture capital.
MIT attaches great importance to the practical work of entrepreneurship and proposes an open curriculum system.Sloan School of Management's "15.319" early-stage assets and "15.389" global entrepreneurship are courses that provide students with relevant experiences.Students taking the course 15.319 are offered an initial internship in partnership with lawyers and venture capitalists.For many entrepreneurs, how to get related funding in the early stages of entrepreneurship is an important key.The "Early Entrepreneurial Assets" course invites venture capitalists, angels, startup presidents who have received large sums of money to share their experiences in class so that these social workers can actually reach out to these students."Global Entrepreneurship" is an internship program that gives students practical access to global markets.The trend is that because of the breakthrough nature of technology, many regional start-ups must initially target global markets in order to overcome the small size of the local market or prioritize patent competition in large markets.Because of this, the money, talent, and ideas that start-ups need often come from all over the world.This global internship was developed to meet these needs, and students must travel to the internship site for a month, including Mexico's emerging magazine Editorial MapaS, Brazil's Ifnet, and Shanghai-based joint venture companies.
At the same time, MIT's famous 50K ($50,000) entrepreneurship competition is also an important opportunity to apply this course, and students can cooperate with volunteer industry participants through the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.From the preliminary, final to the semi-final, each stage is tantamount to a careful entrepreneurial evaluation, and many teams, even if they are only semi-finalists, have later embarked on the entrepreneurial road.MIT's Entrepreneurship Competition not only opened a new phase of the U.S. college entrepreneurship competition, but also directly hatched more than 50 companies, which have combined sales of more than $15 billion, created more than 600 jobs and absorbed $170 million in venture capital.
It is through various forms of entrepreneurship education that MIT has instilled entrepreneurial ideas and spirit into its students in all aspects, creating a large number of entrepreneurial talents.A 1997 report by Bank of Boston, titled MIT: Impacting Innovation, found that if companies founded by MIT alumni and faculty were formed into an independent nation, the country would rank 24th in the world in economic power.According to a 1999 MIT statistic, MIT graduates have founded 4,000 companies that employed 1.1 million people and generated an economic value of $232 billion in 1994 alone, making an outstanding contribution to the economic development of the United States.