From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9401270803.AA22556@vongole.MIT.EDU>
To: e-club@MIT.EDU
Subject: New 6 Credit U/G Seminar SEM095, Tech Start-Ups at MIT, Part II;
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 03:03:12 EST


(the following is addressed primarily to mit undergraduates who took
 my seminar sem089 during fall term, and to new and returning undergrads,
 from all mit departments, interested in the subject.  a limited number of
 observers are welcome and as during the fall term, mit and wellesley
 graduate students and alum, and harvard students, are welcome to sit in
 as space allows.  there is an enrollment limit of 20.  harvard students
 wishing to cross-register should enquire of mit's registrar for details.

 for further information call me at x3-2000 or at home on 864-4039, or
 send me e-mail:  <rdshydur@athena.mit.edu>.  meanwhile browse the e-club's
 locker (attach e-club; cd /mit/e-club) for the fall term's seminar archives
 under sem089, and look for the new syllabus, under develelopment, under
 sem095 spring-term, part ii.				- richard shyduroff)
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   SEM 095
   Starting-Up New Technology-Based Business Enterprises at MIT - Part II
   Mr. Richard Shyduroff
   Professor Merton C. Flemings, Faculty Advisor
   Tuesdays, 7-9 pm, room 66-148
   6 credits

This seminar is a continuation of discussions, talks, presentations and 
virtual field trips begun during the fall term in SEM 089 "Starting-Up 
New Technology-Based Business Enterprises at MIT - Part I", offering as a 
basis for study the case histories of selected examples of successful 
MIT spin-off companies, as well as some MIT start-ups in-the-works. 

Students signing up for this second seminar do not need to have taken 
Part I.  A review of the main points of the materials covered during 
fall term will be given at the first meeting, and materials, readings 
and other references, as well as course notes, will be on reserve in 
Dewey Library to enable interested new students the opportunity to 
browse the fall term's archives.

In Part I, participants focused on ideas, and what happens to them 
during the processes of de-bugging, team building, and idea protection, 
with a lot of attention paid to team members' profiles, business and 
personal ethics, the founding entrepreneur's behavior, intellectual 
property and patent protection, and technology transfer.

In Part II, there will be additional material covering legal issues of 
the start-up process, proposal writing, market research, business-plan 
preparation, fund raising of private and public money, product design, 
marketing, advertising, delivery and client relationships.  In addition 
to Professor Flemings, other MIT faculty from a variety of departments 
[including Dean Joel Moses (6), Professors Eric Von Hippel (15), and Tod 
Machover (MAS)], as well as alumni/ae, will offer their information and 
perspectives.  

Students will write business plans and do collaborative on-line 
research.  To facilitate this, and to encourage team-building and 
collaborative on-line research, participants are strongly urged to use 
e-mail and to trade papers via Athena's Networked Educational Online 
System (NEOS), which this seminar uses.

All suggested readings, the schedule of faculty and alumni/ae who 
visited and presented at the seminar during fall term, and the writing 
assignments are also available on-line in the E-Club's locker on Athena, 
accessible in the usual manner:  (attach e-club, cd /mit/e-club;  look 
in the directory "sem-095").  (available during the week 31 jan)

Richard Shyduroff is the co-founder and co-director of the MIT 
Entrepreneurs Club ("The E-Club") and has been involved in a number of 
MIT start-up companies, emphasizing networking, team building, idea 
de-bugging and presentation, and fundraising.  He is also currently 
working with students at Harvard University to re-engineer and revive 
their own E-Club, and is designing and developing a Harvard $10K Student 
Competition, as well as a joint MIT-Harvard Entrepreneurs Competition, 
which efforts he hopes will help launch new science and technology 
enterprises in the city of Cambridge.

Merton C. Flemings is the Toyota Professor and head of the Department of 
Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and a member of The Governor's 
Council on Industry and Technology Development for The Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts.
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