University Resources: Hitchhiker's Guide to Boston Tech

The Entrepreneurs Club is a student run initiative that engages and inspires students to pursue their careers & life by doing what they love. We aim to bring together a diverse set of students who all share one thing; The desire to “Live their passion!” Whether you want to start a non-profit, be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or open a small business, everyone is welcome to join in exploring the many paths towards becoming an entrepreneur!

Contrary is a decentralized, university-focused venture capital fund, empowering the brightest university entrepreneurs everywhere.

Backed by founders from Tesla, Twitch, SoFi, and other top tech entrepreneurs, we invest $50K-200K in students, faculty, and recent grads, and work with 100 Venture Partners at 50 schools across the country.

The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge strives to achieve the mission of our parent organization—the MIT Enterprise Forum—by showcasing emerging technologies and markets, coaching innovators and investors on how to create markets through technology and moderating and facilitating the dialogue on the risks, rewards and societal impacts of innovation.

The Buzz Lab is BU’s center for entrepreneurship, located at 143 Bay State Road, 4th floor. As the “hive” of innovation, it houses all Entrepreneurship programs, faculty, student clubs, and BU students and alumni startups. We offer resources including mentorship, coworking and rapid prototyping space, and community events that engage alumni and accelerate learning. Come by anytime and see our space and learn more about our programs!

Emerson Launch is a two-year program for student entrepreneurs to turn
their passion into a profession. Emerson College provides space, mentoring,
and seed money to student startups to help them launch their business
before they graduate.

The Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) is a unique collaboration and education space designed to foster entrepreneurship and innovation across Harvard.

Tufts Medstart is a healthcare conference with a mission of helping attendees turn ideas into action. This year's conference, themed "Merging Tradition with Technology", will focus on the interfacing of cultural values in healthcare and its augmentation by the advent of technology. Medical technologies are changing healthcare in the community and at the bedside. We are looking to explore how technology has been beneficial in connecting the different players in healthcare- doctors to patients, patients to patients, hospitals to patients, etc. Our goal is to help foster ideas in entrepreneurship through themes including wearable technologies, applications of novel technologies in select populations, and the growing influence of consumerism in healthcare.

This year's keynote speaker is Carla Small, Senior Director of Innovation at Boston Children's Hospital. The conference will be from 8:30am-5:30pm, with a networking event from 3:30pm-5:30pm. Register for the conference at: http://bit.ly/tuftsmedstart2017-registration
Students with a valid .edu email address get a special student rate!