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MIT launches Founder's Journey course to teach hardware startup scaling
Image: Primary MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering launched a new course, Founder's Journey: Launching and Scaling Hardware Startups, to give students direct exposure to alumni founders who have built companies in robotics, energy, 3D printing, and consumer products. The inaugural class ran in spring 2025.
"There are so many amazing entrepreneurial stories among our alumni. We want to bring those stories to our students and our community and build networks with our incredible alumni founders," said John Hart, head of Mechanical Engineering and co-founder of VulcanForms.
A 2015 report on MIT's entrepreneurial impact found more than 30,000 active companies founded
Each week focuses on a key challenge in hardware startup development, fundraising, supply chain, manufacturing, team building, presented
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