Our Process
KINETIC follows a multi-pronged methodology inspired by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. MIT entrepreneurs have a high success rate. Over 30,000 companies founded by MIT alumni are active, employing 4.6 million people and producing annual revenues of $1.9 trillion, roughly equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world. (2015 MIT Report)Working Together to Help Entrepreneurs Find Funding
Our Audacious 2023 Goals
Over the next year, we have four major goals.KINETIC-CON VIDEOS – WATCH PREVIOUS CONFERENCE YEARS
Our Partners
We have excellent partners to help us achieve our goals.KINETIC is truly a commendable effort comprised of many valuable stakeholders, including investors, colleges and universities, corporations, governments, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and so forth. We are all working together to make economic justice a reality through increased entrepreneurship. I believe it is the most powerful force to establish self-reliance and create prosperity.
- BILL AULET -
Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT EntrepreneurshipKINETIC will change the world through entrepreneurship. It doesn’t get any better than that!
- KEVIN D. JOHNSON -
Best-Selling Author of The Entrepreneur Mind
The Time Is Now
The Winds of Change Are BlowingEncouraged by recent movements to achieve social justice in the United States, KINETIC believes strongly that without economic justice, there is no social justice.
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More venture capital firms have committed funds for diverse founders.
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Institutional investors are beginning to require diversity. (WSJ)
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Startups with diverse founders average higher returns for investors. (BCG)
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Given the pandemic, interest in entrepreneurship is surging.
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Small business ownership of Blacks rose in the U.S. by 400% in '18. (Guidant)
We eat and sleep entrepreneurship!
Entrepreneurship is the best way to achieve self-actualization and economic autonomy.Our Values
We regard integrity as our most important value. It is so important in the business world. We will be transparent about our goals and the KINETIC organization while demanding that those who associate with us have these same high standards.
Our Philosophy
Entrepreneurship is about maximizing economic development by starting a business. Therefore, KINETIC focuses on maximizing economic development and impact by helping to solve the biggest challenge that entrepreneurs face: funding. As a result of solving this problem, we will make tremendous steps toward achieving economic justice.
Our Vision
KINETIC, an initiative founded at MIT, envisions a world where funding is available, accessible, and adequate for all people to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.