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So you want to start your own company? Congratulations -- now, get ready for the hard part. We've provided some good resources on partnering with entrepreneurs, identifying and addressing specific market needs, raising money, and more. ARTICLES See also a presentation (pdf) from a Deshande Center Faculty Entrepreneurship Workshop on angel funding. How to Split Equity Creative Ways to Raise Early-Stage Capital ENTREPRENEURSHIP SEMINARS 15.962
High-Tech Start-ups by Ken Morse and Jack Gill See the complete list of non-credit and for-credit entrepreneurship
and management IAP classes. ORGANIZATIONS MIT Venture Mentoring Service VMS supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching prospective entrepreneurs with volunteer mentors who can boost the probability of a start-up's success. http://web.mit.edu/vms/ MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition Over 100 teams of students enter this competition each year, writing business plans in hopes of sharing in the $50,000 prize. Venture capitalists keep a close eye on MIT's competition. The MIT $50K has launched over 70 companies, including Akamai Technologies, with many competition alumni acquired by the likes of Microsoft, Motorola, and Broadcom. Seminars and get togethers leading up to the competition are a good way to find teammates to launch a new business based on MIT technology. http://50k.mit.edu/ Entrepreneurship Center http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu MIT Venture Capital and Private Equity Club VCPE is actively involved in helping to educate the MIT community on the venture capital process, including their popular annual conference in early December. http://www.mitvcpi.org/ MIT Science and Engineering Business Club The Club's mission is to serve as an unbiased, student-based educational resource and network for undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows seeking careers in business. http://web.mit.edu/sebc/ MIT Enterprise Forum Forum chapters offer advice, support and educational services for emerging technology-based companies, including case presentations, business plan workshops, and satellite broadcasts. http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu MIT COURSES See the list of courses offered through the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. You can find course material from many of them on the MIT OpenCourseWare web site. Other courses
include: WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESOURCES
BOOKS Startup: a Silicon Valley Adventure By Jerry Kaplan Account of one person's attempt at articulating a simple idea of a business (pen-based computing), and the rise-and-fall saga of trying to make it happen. The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug By Barry Werth True story from a biotech startup, from idea to IPO, as they try to discover an anti-AIDS drug. The twists and turns in the true plot match the excitement of a thriller. Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond By Ed Roberts Written by practitioner and pioneer in entrepreneurial research at Sloan School, this bible of high-tech entrepreneurship has been engaging readers for 10 years. Venture Café: Secrets, Strategies, and Stories from America's High Tech Entrepreneurs By Theresa Esser Anecdotal account of high tech startups, with many MIT alum examples in there. |
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