The Entrepreneurs' Corner
Purpose
These pages are meant to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit that's been flourishing
among Media Lab graduates, particularly since the Internet took off with the Web.
I will try to keep the content up to date as these ventures grow and as time allows.
A major goal is to serve Media Lab alumni looking for an employer or trying to start
a company or to hire (people in search of a job might want to check these pages).
Another purpose is simply to stay in touch as we all take different paths. That
second purpose might require a different set of pages along the line of a "virtual
club" (also a work in progress). Finally some VCs might take a look and be
interested in checking you out....
As of November 22, 1997:
Product Oriented startups
| Company | (Co-)Founder(s) | Date of Creation |
|
Firefly Networks, Inc. www.firefly.com |
Nick Grouf, CEO Yezdi Lashkari, Advanced Technology, MS MAS '95 Max Metral, Chief Scientist, MAS '9? Pattie Maes, Professor, MIT Media Lab, Member of the Board |
1995 |
|
Art Technology Group,Inc.
www.atg.com |
Jeet Singh, CEO, Joe Chung, CTO, MAS MS 9? |
? |
|
FutureTense, Inc. www.futuretense.com |
BC Krishna, MS MAS '9 ? |
? |
|
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. www.harmonixmusic.com |
Alex Rigopulos, CEO, MS MAS '92
Eran Egozy, CTO, MS EECS '92 |
1995 |
| www.perspecta.com |
Earl Rennison, MS MAS '9? Nicolas St-Arnaud, MS MAS '9? Lisa Strausfeld, MS MAS '9? ? |
1996 |
| www.lighti.com |
Brent C.J. Britton, President (MS MAS '9?) |
? |
| MaMaMedia, Inc. | Idit Harel, CEO (PhD MAS '88) | 1995 |
|
Method Software, Inc. |
Steve Strassmann, President (PhD MAS '91) |
1995 |
|
Network, Sound & Light, Inc. www.coolcards.com |
Karen Donoghue, (MS '93) Chris Gant Mark Halliday, (MS MAS '94) |
1996 |
| www.netmosphere.com | Eric Ly, President, (MS MAS 9?) | 1996 |
|
Runaway Technology, Inc. www.photomosaic.com |
Rob Silvers, (MS MAS '96) President & CEO |
1996 |
| www.thinkpix.com | Stephan Fitch, (MS MAS '9?) | ? |
| Tramline, Inc. www.tramline.com |
Kim Foley (MS MAS '88) Kunal Sen Dennis Hogan Denny Curtin |
1996 |
|
Virage, Inc. www.virage.com |
Bradley Horowitz (MS MAS '93) | ? |
Consulting & Services
| Company | (Co-)Founder(s) | Date of Creation |
| ACME Holography | Betsy Connors (MS MAS '?) | ? |
| Flat Black Films | Bob Sabiston | ? |
| Interplay Media Consulting |
Kevin McGee (Sweden) (MS MAS '9?) |
? |
| www.lighti.com |
Brent C.J. Britton, President (MS MAS '9?) |
1996 |
| Persistent VISION www.media.mit.edu/~kfoley/ | Kim Foley (MS MAS '88) | 1985 |
| www.razorfish.com | Craig Kanarick, (MS MAS '93) | 1994 |
| Swim Interaction Design Studio, LLC www.swimstudio.com |
Gitta Salomon (MS MAS '86) |
1996 |
If I'm missing anyone or if you would like to be added, please send email to Gilberte Houbart: gilberte@media-lab.mit.edu . The only requirement is that one of the co-founders must have
graduated from the Media Lab.
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