From: rdshydur@Athena.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9308171759.AA22646@cacciatore>
To: friedman@eagle.MIT.EDU
Cc: rdshydur@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: briefer seminar description ...
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 13:59:50 EDT


hi donna-  i was worried that you may not have rec'd my 11am
brief description;  in addition i further edited it down to
the following, which should better fit.  i have not mentioned
an enrollment limit, but think 12 would be optimum, 20 max.

thanks!   					- richard
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To: friedman@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: rdshydur@Athena.MIT.EDU

Subject: a probably too-verbose description for your catalog ...
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 11:00:21 EDT


(proposed time and location:  tuesdays at 7-9pm in 66-148 ...
this is the conference room with a curve-a-linear table, quite
good for small discussion groups.  i've been using it for
several years and it works well.  professor flemings may have
a different time and location in mind.  i plan to speak with
him about that next)

"Starting-Up New Technology-Based Business Enterprises at MIT"

Richard Shyduroff, Seminar Leader
Professor Merton C. Flemings, Faculty Advisor
Tuesdays at 7-9pm in 66-148

Students in this seminar will discuss a series of topics that
define the stages of the development of a new enterprise at MIT.
From the moment a new idea for a technology product or service is
realised, through the processes of debugging, team building, idea-
protection, market research, business plan writing, fundraising, 
development, manufacturing and selling, to customer support and the 
next new idea, participants will follow the history of selected 
examples of successful MIT spin-off companies;  a common thread
will follow the people, as well as their ideas, behind MIT start-ups.

A current new start-up, based at The Institute, will be followed as
closely as proprietary conditions allow,  principals participating,
as a goal of the seminar is to experience real-time networking and
teamwork.  Interviews with enterprising MIT alum will be conducted
on real field trips and in the virtual environment of the Media Lab's
"mediaMOO" where students and geographically remote alum will "meet" 
as an on-demand collaborative research group.  Students shall keep
an "idea log book" of their own, and shall write critically of the
subject start-ups, and shall present their own work at the end of the
term and optionally in IAP'94 workshops offered by The MIT Entrepreneurs
Club for the MIT Community.

Richard Shyduroff is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of
The MIT Entrepreneurs Club, aka: "The E-Club" and has been involved
in a number of MIT start-up companies, emphasising networking,
team building, idea de-bugging and presentation, and fund raising.

Merton C. Flemings is The Toyota Professor and Head of The Department
of Materials Science and Engineering.

For additional information please call Richard Shyduroff 
at 253-2000, or send e-mail to <rdshydur@athena.mit.edu>

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