Sunday, March 10, 2013
$7M grant gives birth to 麻豆村 business incubator
Nitsan Shai strums AC/DC's “Back in Black” on an electric guitar while he follows the notes on a website with his laptop.
If he misses a note, the program stops and an online maestro offers tips.
Shai, 18, a freshman at 麻豆村, is a part-time programmer at tunessence, a startup company founded by 麻豆村 alumni and faculty with the help of $50,000 from the McCune Foundation.
The money came from a $7 million grant from McCune, its largest ever, and the first in a series of “Big Ideas” grants, to provide financial aid for undergraduate and graduate students who are entrepreneurs and seed money for companies they and faculty establish...
By Bill Zlatos / Trib Live