User:Macrakis/alumni-founders

Deletion of MIT alumni founders article

Sorry I didn't participate in the AFD Wikipedia: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" [1]
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)

@Macrakis: 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 [2]
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." [3]

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