18.4 Brainstorm
Suggestions for guest editors:
- Tomer London and Asaf Cidon http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomerlondon and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/asaf-cidon/9/b28/a7a (Inbal)
- Jeff Mounzer http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmounzer (Inbal)
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Andrew Sutherland (http://asuth.com) - asuth@mit.edu
Sheena Pakanati (https://gomockingbird.com/about) – sheena@gomockingbird.comSaikat Chakrabarti (https://gomockingbird.com/about) – saikat@gomockingbird.comGreg Brockman (http://web.mit.edu/gdb) - gdb@gregbrockman.comNevan C. Hanumara – (http://mdic.mit.edu/team.html) – hanumara@mit.edu
Anurag Bajpayee (http://mitgsw.org/2011/about.php?id=1) – bajpayee@mit.edu (Malay) - Yiming Liu – cofounded Popcuts.com while in school http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~yliu/ (Denise)
Online references, suggestions for authors:
- Plan Hero co-founder http://planhero.com/ (Shawn)
- http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/ (Malay)
- http://www.mitgsw.org/ (Malay)
- Women and startups http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/11/stop-telling-women-to-do-startups/, http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/11/stop-telling-women-to-do-startups/, forum Yazamiyot ( http://www.meetup.com/Yazamiyot/ ), the organizer of the group Einat Metzer (http://www.meetup.com/Yazamiyot/member/8438054/) would be happy to talk to us (connection through Lina Kirshon, Israeli entrepreneur who can also be profiled).
- VC / Seed funding: http://ycombinator.com/
- Other investors (Big canadian ones are: Kevin O‘Leary Brett Wilson – both off dragons den)
- Famous startups to come out of academia (Google of course, Yahoo!, Bump-Tomer worked there, what else?)
- http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-028.pdf