HEIP 143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sandborn, Indiana, Financial Analyst, Mecha
15 Dec 2018
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Dr. sandborn mtech director, faculty director, eip, mech eng prof. Jolene gurevich, incubator and fund manager for mtech ventures. Chris rehkamp - student venture programs manager at dingman center. Kind of forced to do a startup to save a company. Adapting as an engineer who didn"t want to be in business: Pulled into marketing to sell, learned everything is marketing (engineers have to sell their ideas and themselves), learned to communicate, don"t unsell something (engineers tend to talk about what aspects of product do not work) Fund between state of maryland and umd to help clean chesapeake bay. Senior year - did venture for america (work with a startup to learn, help it grow, learn how to start your own company) Going from finance to doing lots of jobs in a start up. All the money ended up going towards nothing they wanted it to go to (gov"t loopholes) Dingman fridays - can get feedback every friday on ideas.
