Seminar SEM095 "Starting-Up New Technology-Based Business Enterprises at MIT, Part II" Tuesdays, 7-9pm in 66-148 12 or 13 weeks, depending on interpretation of the academic calendar; plus special optional day-time sessions Lecturer: Richard Shyduroff, Co-Director The MIT Entrepreneurs Club, aka, "The E-Club" x3-2000, h: 864-4039, mit mail: E15-443 Faculty Advisor: Professor Mert Flemings, Department Head Materials Science & Engineering x3-3233, mit mail: 8-309 T.A., Joost Bonsen, course 6 '92, Chairman, $10K Student Competition '94 x3-2000, h: 864-4039, (see undergraduate bulletin spring-term for formal course description) (NB: everyone taking the seminar for credit is expected to use e-mail, preferably via athena :-) and to learn to use both athena's networked educational on-line system, neos, and to make use of the internet as a research and communications tool. optional sessions for anyone needing help on athena or whose who would like to do their work together in small-study-groups may join us in 14-0637, a private athena electronic classroom, on most tuesday nights after the seminar, from 9pm-1am, and on most friday evenings from c. 6pm-1am. We also have the use of 14-0637 on most saturday nights, 6pm-1am and on sundays from noon-5pm in 1-115. for details just ask in class or send e-mail) -------- The formal syllabus is still under construction. Here below are some notes to give those at the first meeting an idea of what's planned for this term's work. For a look at the first-part of this year-long seminar, please look at the archives in the e-club locker. (attach e-club, cd /mit/e-club, cd SEM089. a new directory, SEM095 exists and will contain archives of all mailings to the new seminar list "sem095" including weekly schedules of visiting faculty and alum, writing assignments, required and suggested readings as handouts, hard copy and by e-mail, and what's newly on-reserve at dewey library and possibly elsewhere.) -------- From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU To: sem089@MIT.EDU Subject: reminder, sem089-part-2 = sem095, tue, 7-9pm in 66-148; Date: Tue, 01 Feb 94 15:01:07 EST to: all participants in sem089 from fall-term who are still interested in part 2, sem095, for spring-term; re: the seminar; just a reminder that the seminar has been approved for part 2, and renamed "sem095" with all new material and faculty and alum visitors and writing assignments. professor mert flemings continues to be the faculty advisor, and joost bonsen, '92, will again be the t.a. reachable at 253-2000, or by e-mail, preferred, . today's guests include art mellor of midnight networks, inc, (a start-up begun with holly and peter schmidt in professor eric von hippel's _new ventures_ course 15.375) and nick deluca of the 10k'93 winning team "novus pillow pak" (sam joffe may not be able to make it tonight). novus pillow pack is also looking for a urop student to help with materials research and protoype design and the manufacturing of other kinds of packaging "environments", products and services. this should be an opportunity to learn more first hand. guest observers include representatives of state senator michael barrett's office. mit alum rukiah abdul-malik, '93, a researcher looking into tech start-ups and how to make the commonwealth a better place in which to foster new businesses and what to do to make military-to-other- based-businesses conversion work will be a regular participant, and we welcome her input and public-sector networking help. a number of harvard students from the harvard entrepreneurs club who will be at the e-club regular meeting at 6-7pm may also sit in, as we're in the midst of re-engineering their e-club and there's great interest in mit's entrepreneurial courses, activities and support systems, including this seminar. at the meeting tonight i'll hand out b-plan templates and tutorials and we'll discuss the proposal to develop an athena-based b-plan tutorial and preparation guide, with hypertext links to exhaustive business glossaries and real world databases of patent, market research and corporate fiscal information. again, there's an opportunity for one or more students to learn about b-plan theory and methods of accounting and financial processes, annual report decoding and what-if thinking while developing a graphically oriented networked b-plan authoring tool for credit and pay and perhaps more. next week we'll host professor ed roberts from the sloan school, and during the spring term, date and location to be announced, the seminar will organise and produce a special day-time mini-conference with dean joel moses and sloan school dean glen urban, in a significantly larger room, like 6-120 or 10-250, on campus-wide entrepreneurial issues and collaborations. lots of good connections to be made! additionally during the term the seminar will host mit alum brewster kahle, inventor of wais (wide area information servers) at thinking machines corporation. brewster has recently started up another new enterprise, the for-profit version of wais, wais, inc. (see last sunday's nyt's business section, page 10, for some details and applications) or look in the e-club locker under "6901" at the recent archives of discussions on patents and on-line search services we have going on the list "6901-conference" which you can subscribe to from athena yourself using blanche or listmaint. otherwise send me a note and i'll subscribe you directly. additional faculty visiting the seminar include professor eric von hippel (_new ventures_, 15.375) with whom i am trading course teaching services in part to get a feeling for our teaching styles. eric has asked me to consider co-teaching _new ventures_ with him and i am quite excited about that since he's been at it for fifteen years and it should help make this seminar and future activities of the e-club better. eric will drop by from time-to-time. there's more, but we'll get into all this in depth later this evening ... and please pass this note along to other students you think might be interested. Calendar for the spring term, 1994, (simple version): February 1994 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 March 1994 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April 1994 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 May 1994 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 June 1994 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Further questions? Don't hesitate to ask! Thanks! - richard