User:Macrakis/alumni-founders

(posted on User talk:Clarityfiend)

Deletion of MIT alumni founders article
Sorry I didn't participate in the AFD Articles for deletion/List of companies founded by Harvard University alumni -- I did not receive any sort of notification, although I have contributed to both the MIT and the Harvard articles.

As for the claim that Stanford is uniquely noted as a creator of new companies, that isn't true. Look at:
 * From the Basement to the Dome How MITs Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community, 2021 (see Foreword by Bob Metcalfe)
 * Blurb: "MIT is world-famous as a launching pad for entrepreneurs. MIT alumni have founded at least 30,000 active companies, employing an estimated 4.6 million people, with revenues of approximately $1.9 trillion. In the 2010s, twenty to thirty ventures were spun off each year to commercialize technologies developed in MIT labs (with intellectual property licensed by MIT to these companies); in the same decade, MIT graduates started an estimated 100 firms per year. How has MIT become such a hotbed of entrepreneurship?"


 * "Building builders: entrepreneurship education from an ecosystem perspective at MIT" 2018
 * "Entrepreneurs from technology-based universities: Evidence from MIT" 2007 (I'm not including the many other publications by E.B. Roberts on this topic)
 * "Delineating the anatomy of an entrepreneurial university: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology experience"
 * MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science 2002

So it seems to me that if the MIT article is to be deleted, so should the Stanford article. --Macrakis (talk) 18:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Well, there are two paths you could take: Either nominate the Stanford list for deletion or try getting a WP:REFUND based on your sources. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:21, 2 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice. For now, I think I'll accumulate additional citations at User:Macrakis/alumni-founders. --Macrakis (talk) 23:55, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

MIT

 * Ken Olsen (MIT grad, MIT Corporation life member) "most successful entrepreneur in the history of American business", Fortune Magazine, 1986
 * MIT Venture Clinic and Startup Clinic: "Bill Warner ’80, founder of Avid Technology, would later cite the Startup Clinic as a key factor in his company’s success."

Harvard

 * Georges Doriot "Georges Doriot was a pioneer in the development of venture capital in the 1950s... teaching at Harvard Business School. One of his most popular courses was on business start-ups. Over a 40-year teaching career, he would influence thousands of top students, including Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/doriot_hi.html