Dulcie Madden: Startup Teams (Thu Dec 6, lecture 25)
A real world entrepreneur about how she got there!

Homework due for today

Legend: : Participation | : Early | : PDF | : Team | : Zipped

Interesting, but not required reading

Guest Lecturer

We are really lucky to have Dulcie Madden the co-founder and CEO of Rest Devices, a startup that builds personalized AI-driven coaching products for families and healthcare consumers. In partnership with Johnson & Johnson, Rest Devices launched Nod, an app-based software platform delivering customized sleep coaching to parents, now used in more than 40 countries. Rest has also launched and scaled multiple groundbreaking consumer hardware products for monitoring sleep, including the Mimo Baby Sleep Monitor.

Dulcie has a BS in Biology from Georgetown University and half an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She lives in Boston with her husband and their two young children.

Key Points that Duclie Will cover

  • Entrepreneurship is like swimming (or surfing): always swim with a buddy [i.e. cofounders are highly helpful for a zillion reasons, most of all survival]
  • You can recover from just about anything
  • People are more important than anything else, particularly early team members