to:  all participants in sem089;

re:  course readings and reference materials on reserve in dewey;

there is no one particular text book, paper or thesis i have
come across that could possibly suffice as our seminar's
required reading for this term.

naturally there is a vast body of work, much of it researched
and written at, around and about mit people doing technology-based
start-ups, which we have all come across, scanned, studied or
reviewed for other courses and for participation in the mit
entrepreneurs club's activities, including the annual $10k
student competition.

among these suggested readings and reference materials are a series
of publications from our auditors, price-waterhouse, our legal
counsel, sullivan & worcester, the mit technology licensing office,
the tlo, and privately published books and papers by mit professors,
plus a wide range of useful and enjoyable books published by the
mit press on the history of the sciences and technologies from the
views of historians who are also interested in just how tools,
technologies and methods have helped produce innovative new enterprises,
locally here in the commonwealth, and everywhere else in the world.

this morning i placed on reserve, in dewey library, the first
few linear inches of what this year shall grow into several feet
of reference materials that all participants in our seminar
should spend some time scanning and in some cases, reading through
and studying, for either background on the current or past weeks'
presentations and discussions or for papers we'll be researching
and writing beginning about mid-term.

(dewey library, for new students or those who have not yet wandered
east in the direction of the sloan school, is in building e53,
aka, the hermann building, immediately adjacent e52, the home
of the sloan school.  the main entrance to dewey library is on
wadsworth street, at the extreme east end of amherst street, and
on a clear day may just be seen from east campus on ames street
sighting east down amherst).

the reserve section at dewey is on the first floor, two left
turns from when you first enter the library past the main desk.
the phone numbers at the reserve desk are x3-7133 and x3-9446.
the main numbers at dewey circulation are x3-5676 and x3-9445.

look for our materials in the "professors' materials" section under
the folder name "sem089" ... and you should use your visits there
as an opportunity to browse dewey for it's great collection of
`social sciences and management, emphasising economics, political
science, sociology, statistics, organisational psychology, law,
u.s. government documents, corporate financial reports, u.n.
official documents and rand corporation reports.'

here are the titles i placed on reserve this morning.  if you
have further questions, please send me e-mail here, or call
x3-2000 or try me at home at any hour, in cambridge, on 864-4039.

nb:  if you have read a book, journal article, wall street journal
piece, thesis, research paper, popular press work on new technology
start-ups or a relevant government publication you think would be
useful for other seminar participants to know about and read, please
bring the title to the attention of the seminar at the next meeting
on tuesday 28 september, and we'll briefly review it together and
decide if it should be included in the reserve collection.

(entries are as they appeared in my beginning random search through
my own collection of materials.  order of appearance is not relevant)

	_create or perish:  the case for inventions and patents_
	 professor robert h. rines, mit '42;
	 teaches 6.901, meets monday nights 7pm in 37-212;
	 privately published, circa 1960, out-of-print, deserves 
	 a re-writing, an excellent historical work on the history 
	 of technologies and the us patent system.  very readable.

	_sbir program sollicitation, 1991_
	 us department of defence, sample catalog of technologies
	 looking for researchers and developers;
	 sbir = small business innovative research program,
	 established by the nsf (national science foundation) in 1984;

	_guide to the ownership, distribution and commercial
	 development of mit technology_
	 mit technology licensing office (tlo), 1989 (latest);
	 includes the following specimen documents:

		o  mit technology disclosure agreement;
		o  materials transfer agreement;
		o  conflict avoidance statement;
		o  inventions & proprietary information agreement;

 	 you may pick up your own copy of this guide at the tlo,
	 on the third floor of e32, on carleton street, across
	 from the mit medical center, during regular office hours.
	 the number at the tlo is x3-6966.

	_planning and financing for middle market companies_
	 prie-waterhouse, 1990;
	 price-waterhouse entrepreneurial services center, 
	 one kendall square, building 200
	 cambridge  02139,  tele: 439-4390

	_developing the business plan for your rapidly growing company_
	 ibid, 1990;
	 this is the business plan tutorial handed out
	 at the second meeting of the seminar.  if you didn't get
	 a copy for yourself, please ask for one at the next meeting;
	 nb:  there is a new dos :-P -based disk version of the plan
	 which should be available in early october.  see note below on
	 disk based b-plan tutorials and templates.

	_technology in america:  a history of individuals and ideas_
	 mit press, 1981;
	 edited by carroll w. pursell, jr.
	 a quide readable collection of historical pieces, a good
	 introduction to the history of innovation in the u.s.

	_who owns the twenty-first century?_
	 lester c. thurow, former dean of the sloan school,
	 professor of management at mit's sloan school of management;
	 sloan management review, spring 1992*

	 * all numbers of the _sloan management review_ are kept
	 in duplicate at dewey library, therefore i have not
	 included my personal issues in the reserve collection.

	 in a separate note to this list i'll list several sources
	 of suggested reading seminar participants should begin
	 getting familiar with, inclcuding _management review_.

	 the above should be a good start going into the weekend :-)

again, any questions?  suggestions?  please let us all know about them.

in fact HERE* is a good place to post your suggested titles and
to get some discussions going as well (a separate note next about
getting into the mediaMOO, a reminder about how to get into firstsearch,
some additional syllabus matter, who else will be visiting us in
future meetings and a variety of pointers to e-club and slaon nva
activities coming up this term are also in various buffers and soon
to land in your e-mail inbox).

*  send your suggestions and comments to the list <sem089@athena>
and we'll all be able to read them and comment back directly.

yours for a productive weekend,

	- richard shyduroff
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