The Sleeper Must Awaken


For too long, we have let innovations grow stale in our universities.
For too long, we have treated innovation as an academic exercise.
For too long, we have allowed others to commercialize our insights.
No longer.
We have become too complacent; too content with good to seek great. We have become too conservative to invest our time and capital into our dreams and innovations. As a result, we have the 3rd worst job creation record in the country since 2001.
“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
 
-Duke Leto Atreides, Dune, 1984

We are in the midst of a major economic inflection, in which innovators have an opportunity to transform whole industries and define the next generation of economic growth engines.
The current economic “crisis” is an enormous opportunity in disguise. Massachusetts has the strongest innovation and startup potential of any state in the country, and the country is in desperate need of new jobs and businesses.
This inflection represents an opportunity to regain and expand upon the glory of the “Massachusetts Miracle”. This is an opportunity to show the country and the world how to innovate and how to commercialize high-value ideas. This is an opportunity to use our expertise to spark the next wave of growth and optimism in America.
This is our opportunity. This is your opportunity.
How will you lead?
What will you create?
A revolution is coming. The sleeper must awaken.