Message-Id: <200104161720.NAA25275@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>
To: ivry_semel@yahoo.com
cc: e-club-request@MIT.EDU, rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Subject: ivry, Re: comment -- subscribe to e-club mailing list
In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 Apr 2001 19:36:27 -0000."
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:20:50 -0400
From: richard shyduroff <rdshydur@MIT.EDU>


> join the list as a possible source of 
> information and discussions.

good morning ivry-

you don't mention if you're local to mit
or in our vicinity, so i'll simply respond 
fairly nominally to give you some idea of
who we are and what we do and leave it 
to you to decide if we can be `mutually
beneficiant' ...

of course it would benefit you and us the
most if you could attend and participate
(in person) in our meetings and courses.

we do very little in the way of on-line
discussions or conferencing these days with
other than members of the mit and harvard 
communities, and a very few select others.

we're a volunteer service organisation with an
exceedingly busy schedule and many local
clients with whom we work long hours.

starting next year we might again provide
an occasional picture-tel or liveboard
conferencing-technology-based special
meeting or course `on-line' (real picture-
tel and or real xerox liveboard) and we
announce those services and events to
the list ... but i'm not sure yet what
distribution will look like beyond open
informational and very general education
content ... ie, will cases we present and
study, ie, real start-ups in real time,
not academic matter from the dim or even
relevantly recent past, be included? 

meanwhile, here are a few bits about the
e-club and our seminars new subscribers from
the mit or harvard communities receive:

good morning ____ -
 
i have personally subscribed you to the
mit entrepreneurs club's most generic
list for meetings and activities announcements 
and reminders of select related local similar
interest happenings ...

traffic is low on this NON-DISCUSSION list, and
for the most part provides a heads-up for students
and other regular members as our weekly tuesday 
meeting approaches:

	tuesdays at 6-7pm in 56-114

i think as today and tomorrow are institute 
holidays we'll follow the calendar and not
meet formally ... but some regulars may wish 
to get together anyways.

we also offer an mit 6-credit seminar on
technology start-ups: tech start-ups at mit,
sem-095, which meets right after the 
e-club at 7-9pm also in 56-114.

mit senior lecturer joe hadzima '73, is 
co-teaching this with me this year.

you are welcome to sit in on this course for
as many classes as your schedule allows, this
late in the term.

additional bits on the e-club:
the e-club is an mit service organisation.
membership is pretty much students, faculty,
staff and alum from both the institute
and harvard, plus a very few select local 
professionals in areas relevant to science
and technology entrepreneurship ... and
seminar-095 is generally about 50-50 mit and 
cross-registered harvard undergrads 
and graduate students.

the format of e-club meetings is: come
prepared, or not, to talk briefly about 
your ideas for a science or technology 
start-up, for-profit or not-for-profit, a
life-style or a growth business; come
alone or with partners, advisors, friends,
and be prepared to be realistically reviewed 
in-real-time by a wide variety of variably
experienced mit and harvard people of all
levels of success and attempts ;)

generally we are a very friendly group open
to a wide latitude of presentation styles
and formats (no thesis-like constraints
in this crowd) and all we ask is you
participate by helping to listen, crit
and comment on others' ideas and speaking
modes and styles.

in parallel with our educational mission is
a constant development and fine-tuning of
our networking environment.

if you have questions or comments please be in touch
with any of us at <e-club-request> ...

looking forward to meeting and learning what
you're doing or trying to do,

        - r, and for

          kareem howard '01,
          e-club president
         <howardk@mit.edu>, and

          marcie r. black, '94 & '95 & phd cand. (physics)
          e-club treasurer
         <mrb@mit.edu>, and

          joe hadzima '73, harvard law & sloan
          co-founder, main street partners, and
	  the technology enabling co.
          principal faculty advisor to the e-club 
	  and seminars 089 & 095
         <jgh@alum.mit.edu>

          richard shyduroff, co-founder & co-director
          the mit entrepreneurs club, aka: the e-club
         <rdshydur@mit.edu> <richard@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
          res: 207-230-0465, rockport, maine
          on campus tuesdays ... mondays upon request
.