Maybe it's simply the spring after a too-long winter. It could be the excitement that comes with the end of spring training and the opening game of the Red Sox coupled with the added excitement of Monday's running of the Boston Marathon. But for whatever reason, everyone, everywhere is talking about starting companies, becoming an entrepreneur and experimenting with new ideas, and new innovations.
Extraordinary depth in the science, maturity in the presenters and clarity in the business acumen of what it would take to fuel their go-to-market strategies. Couple that with the fact that these early-stage businesses came from the classrooms and labs across the entire breadth of all Tufts' 11 schools and encompassed four sectors: Technology, Healthcare & Life Science, Nutrition and Social Impact.
Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to participate in the advisory board meeting of Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition Entrepreneurship Institute. Again, just extraordinary depth in the science, the clarity, the directional strategies and the absolute poise in its entrepreneurs!
I had the occasion last night of being the speaker at The Financial Executives International of Boston annual academic awards to both juniors and seniors from area universities recognizing the best in outstanding academic achievements in the field of finance from these schools. Listening to the announcements and achievements of these young men and women, talking with their parents and their professors and discussing with the students their choices for their first full time jobs, left me repeating that same word of "extraordinary" again and again.
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