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An Operating System for Organizational Growth – The Vitruvian Project

When I joined MassChallenge five years ago, we were a measly 7 employees building our first office in a scrappy and haphazard way. Fast forward five years and the organization is now over 60 employees in 5 countries and growing … Continue reading

Startup Ecosystems 101

This week, MassChallenge began a new initiative of employee continuing education courses — we are trying make sure that we focus on a bit of everything in these sessions so that our team can walk away from them with new … Continue reading

Be Adaptable & Think Globally

In second grade I had my first Spanish class and I continued studying Spanish until sophomore year in high school.  I hated it, barely passed, and stopped studying as soon as I could.  In Israel, students need to study English … Continue reading

Beginning the “best experience of my life”

About a month ago I embarked on a journey to work with the MassChallenge team as we began our global expansion opening our first office outside of Boston in Tel Aviv.  It was a really exciting, scary, and most-of-all unknown … Continue reading

Startup Summer Reflection & Learnings

In January, I set out on an incredibly aspirational and surprisingly difficult project – I decided to utilize my first co-op experience to start a new organization, Startup Summer, to connect college student with internship opportunities at early-stage startup companies. … Continue reading

Surround Yourself with the Right People

Come January 1st, I will be moving on from MassChallenge to start my own organization. It’s sort of crazy to say that, but the way that things have been working out in life lately has been just amazing. I’ve realized … Continue reading

What I have learned lately

For the past few weeks I have had task upon tasking piling up in my to-do list and have just been putting a specific one off. I set up my list to have a recurring reminder to write a blog … Continue reading

Ice Breakers, Grasshoppers and a Need for Crazy Innovators

I firmly believe that no entrepreneur can truly be successful without being, at least partly, insane.  Entrepreneurs need to think outside of the box to create things that have never been created before.  They need to test every boundary and create their … Continue reading

It’s about time I do this

Technically this will be the third blog I’ve written.  Previously I have blogged while traveling to Poland/Israel and to China but I have never really blogged just to document my daily experiences. This semester I am working at MassChallenge as an … Continue reading