The cofounder of both the travel site Kayak.com and the Boston-based consumer tech foundry, Blade, discusses how design and other factors play key roles in determining the success of a tech startup. Paul is joined by Brian Kalma, Blades's Design Chief and former Director of User Experience for Zappos.com. (Originally released 1/6/15)

Nestled next door to Boston and Cambridge, Somerville, Massachusetts offers a unique vibe that many in the local startup scene find attractive as a place to work and spend time after work. Lifestyle is key to building a strong local innovation economy says Mayor Joe Curtatone in this interview. (Originally released 11/23/14)

How can a startups partner with a larger, more established company for the benefit of both? The startup gets the funding, distribution channels and access to other resources of the bigger company. And the bigger company gets the technology and creative spark of the startup -- without smothering the innovative fire for which the bigger company has paid dearly. This is just one of the challenges Bernd Schoner discusses in this interview about his book, "The Tech Entrepreneur's Survival Guide." (Originally released 5/24/14)

Learn how Dropbox attracts and holds onto great talent in this interview with Dropbox Founder and CEO Drew Houston, conducted by Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology Review and Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum. (Originally released 2/13/14)

Michael Murray, General Manager of Analog Device's Industrial Sensing Group discusses the division of labor between device-based and cloud-based intelligence in the factory's Internet of Things.

An Institute Professor at MIT, Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in November 2014 for her outstanding scientific research, principally in carbon science and carbon nanostructures. But she is also widely known for promoting the advancement of women in science and engineering -- the subject of this interview.

The November/December 2012 issue of MIT Technology Review issue focused on the question of why we as a society seem to have lost our appetite for solving big problems. That question was also the subject of the March 13, 2013 MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Innovation Series event— a panel discussion led off by the person who wrote that cover story — Jason Pontin, the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review and Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum. In this interview, recorded a week before the event, we asked Jason to give us some of his thinking about why he selected this topic. (Originally released 3/7/13)

How can a startups partner with a larger, more established company for the benefit of both? The startup gets the funding, distribution channels and access to other resources of the bigger company. And the bigger company gets the technology and creative spark of the startup -- without smothering the innovative fire for which the bigger company has paid dearly. This is just one of the challenges Bernd Schoner discusses in this interview about his book, "The Tech Entrepreneur's Survival Guide." (Originally released 5/24/14)

An Institute Professor at MIT, Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in November 2014 for her outstanding scientific research, principally in carbon science and carbon nanostructures. But she is also widely known for promoting the advancement of women in science and engineering -- the subject of this interview.

GE's Chief Digital Officer and the CEO of GE Digital offers up his thoughts on what's ahead for the Internet of Things and what large industrial companies need to do in order to succeed as digital businesses. (Originally released 2/10/17)