Mira Wilczek, leader of Cogo Labs, a data startup incubator in Kendall
Square, talks about why 80 percent of startups fail, and how to ensure
that 80 percent of them succeed.
subtitles - "The Problem with Problems" & "The Destructinator and
Why it Matters" Mira Wilczek is President and CEO of Cogo Labs and a
Senior Partner at Link Ventures. She serves on the Board of Directors at
EverQuote, CareDash, and Hopjump, and the Advisory Board of Vestigo
Ventures. She is also a Co-Director at the Brahe Educational Foundation.
In 2017 Mira was named Top 40 Under 40 by the Boston Business Journal.
Prior to joining Cogo, Mira was founder and CEO of Red Panda Security,
Principal Investigator under the DARPA CFT program, and Director of
Business Development at Lyric Semiconductor, where she garnered industry
recognition including TR50, Silicon 60, and an EE Times ACE Award and
led the successful sale of the company to Analog Devices. She started
her career as an ethical hacker at IBM, architecting their first
automated penetration testing platform.
Mira holds patents both granted and pending in the fields of cyber
security and sensor data fusion. She has an S.B. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, as well as an MBA from the
MIT Sloan School of Management. This talk was given at a TEDx event
using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local
community.
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