Well, here I am again, as promised. Yes, winning the $100K is exactly as you imagine it: limo rides, overflowing bottles of champagne, invitations to smoke-filled back rooms, and high-stakes poker games. Very high-stakes poker games. And you know, you really can’t fit that big check into an ATM. But I’ll talk about that at … Continue reading “Back to Work and Flipping Cheeseburgers—A $100K Winner’s Tale”
Author: Waseem Daher
Waseem Daher founded Ksplice in 2008 and was its COO until its acquisition by Oracle in 2011. He can be reached at [email protected].
Inside View of the MIT 100K Competition—How One Team Got to Tonight’s Finals
We were checking in at the front desk for one of the $100K events, and the security guard asked me, “So, the 100K—the ‘K’ is for kilometers? It’s some sort of race?” No, it’s not a race, it’s MIT’s entrepreneurship competition. We’re the Web/IT track winner, and tonight we’ll be competing for the $100K grand … Continue reading “Inside View of the MIT 100K Competition—How One Team Got to Tonight’s Finals”