{"id":1121,"date":"2025-05-05T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:29:41","slug":"coffee-chats-fostering-connection-between-university-students-and-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/2025\/05\/05\/coffee-chats-fostering-connection-between-university-students-and-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Chats: Fostering connection between university students and startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common challenge voiced by startups is hiring. Finding the right team can be key to a successful journey. Startups need people with technology expertise to build their products, but limited resources often constrain the ability to hire experienced people. Conversely, students looking for career entry are often faced with feedback that they don\u2019t have significant work experience and can struggle to land their first job.<\/p>\n<p>This intersection leaves an opportunity for organizations to close the divide.<\/p>\n<p>Universities around the world use MATLAB and Simulink in academic courses, equipping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/matlab\/student.html?s_tid=srchtitle_site_search_2_students\">students<\/a> with knowledge and real-world examples. At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/startups\">startups<\/a> leverage the tools to reduce development time and bring safe and reliable products to market quickly. The MathWorks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/startups\/accelerators.html\">Accelerator Program<\/a> is helping create a link between these arenas, giving startups access to both the tools and people needed to drive innovation, while promoting more students into the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Hatcher, North American lead for the MathWorks Accelerator Program, tells us more:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"6372374533112\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/files\/2025\/05\/Untitled-Instagram-Post-45.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A common challenge voiced by startups is hiring. Finding the right team can be key to a successful journey. Startups need people with technology expertise to build their products, but limited&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/2025\/05\/05\/coffee-chats-fostering-connection-between-university-students-and-startups\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}