A mobile app development start-up spawned from an open source MIT project has come out with Thunkable, adding to the pantheon of simplified drag-and-drop tools designed to let "anyone" become a coder.

I recently had the chance to speak with Arun Saigal, co-founder and CEO of Thunkable, about what it takes to take a undergraduate research project and turn it into a full-fledged commercial venture.