IdeaTree Design

IdeaTree Design is hosting the third Flash Conference at Olin College of Engineering in Needham MA. Details are forthcoming, but essentially, it's a design conference were a bunch of students get together and do ideation and design for 8 hours a day for a weekend. There's a sponsor company or non-profit, who volunteers a problem that everyone puts their brains against. Essentially, it's like a giant problem-solving party with pizza, cool professionals, and some of the most motivated students you've ever seen. Want in?  read more »

Twelve Lessons from IdeaTree

•What's the most important aspect to momentum? Excitement. Willingness to do what's not fun at the time because of future gain is absolutely essential.
•Leaders must rely on the enthusiasm of a team-- how do you build enthusiasm? Stir imaginations, have tangible deliverables, show progress and growth over time.
•The excitement function in a start-up is very noisy. An actual progress function is much closer to the integral of it. But be prepared for ups and downs and ups really just to mean a slight up. [typical engineer's comment]  read more »