[neltnerb]

I would say that MIT has jumped on the entrepreneurship train (for better and worse) much more wholeheartedly in the decade since this account of an even older (!) anecdote.

That's not to say that the startups aren't doing hard tech and they're still different than west coast startups. However, scientists are perfectly fine at using the scientific method for business development once you explain it to them and are much smarter about getting initial revenue and market validation and know perfectly well it's important -- if you mentor them even a little bit.

MIT started working much harder to explain this in the mid '00s when it truly was much more like what this story says.

[alephnerd]

> I would say that MIT has jumped on the entrepreneurship train (for better and worse) much more wholeheartedly in the decade since this account of an even older (!) anecdote.

Also, a lot more west coasters (like me and my peers) started coming out to Cambridge for school this past 10-15 years after Stanford, USC, UCLA CS/Anderson, and Berkeley EECS/Haas became increasingly difficult to get admission into.

I have plenty of Harvard and MIT friends who were rejected by those 4 programs despite being Californians.

> if you mentor them even a little bit.

MIT started working much harder to explain this in the mid '00s when it truly was much more like what this story says.

Yep! Programs like Engine helped, and I-Labs across town at Harvard as well, and YC ofc had its origins in Cambridge.