MBET Businesses
Someone asked what types of business MBET students have started... most are IT businesses. Let me preface the list by saying that most of the class are pretty young and most have, relatively speaking, little work experience. I'd like to say someone is working on the next Siebel, but it's a bit more modest than that.
I have to sort of punt on this question though as I am, technically, under NDA. I would probably tell you something vague in person but putting it in writing on the web is definitely a no-no. Sorry. The entire class has a group NDA so that we can talk to each other about these types of projects but we're not supposed to tell anyone outside of the class.
Having said that, I know of one group - the one I'm working on for the practicum - that has disclosed its plan in public. The product is a computer-vision based system for casino table game monitoring. It's a good product and a very good market.
In general, none of the businesses are what I would consider huge, except maybe the aforementioned one. But they're all being started by young, passionate people and I think they'll go far on energy and smarts alone. This is still the first year so I think if one or two really successful businesses come out of the program it will be a success. And hopefully it will go from there...
