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The MIT Entrepreneurs Club
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the mit entrepreneurs club, aka: the e-club, in its 24th year, focuses on developing all aspects of science and technology business creation. we meet every tuesday at 6pm during fall & spring academic terms (and at 6pm on our summer-session sched) in room 56-114 [exception, 56-154 spring-term '12]; offer two 6-credit mit seminars on tech start-ups (tuesdays at 7-9pm in 4-402, doc's old classroom up in the edgerton center); conduct special e-club demo meetings for visiting academic, government, ngo and science, technology and policy related business groups, and k-12 schools; sponsor panels and workshops; and regularly connect through an e-mail list and our occasional newsletter ... learn more ...

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*** heads-up everyone! *** *CSAIL ENTREPRENEURS!* launch party 2pm-fri09mch in stata-by-gehry STAR ROOM (aka: 32-D463 seminar room) ... search terms or send mail to ALBORZ GERAMIFARD afg@mit.edu for particulars ...

*** regular, weekly, tuesday meetings start at 6pm * default location 56-114 * come share your science, engineering, technology, bio-x and med start-up thinking and help generate constructive feedback and crit for others' new or ongoing works *** welcome! wellesley and harvard students, and other members of those communities! *** contact e-club officers pres JOSH SIEGEL '11, -or- vice pres TED BLACKMAN '10, -or- treas DOUG SEYMOUR '12 -or- visiting pres EVAN SCHNEIDER '12, to schedule your presentation and discussion *** readings for our tech start-up seminar (6-credits-per-term ec.075, formally sem.089 & sem.095) always begin with _THE ATLANTIC CABLE_ by BERN DIBNER; any and all articles, columns and papers on tech start-ups and related topics by faculty advisor JOE HADZIMA '73 - search terms: hadzima boston business journal mit e-club; LOUIS BRANDEIS' OTHER PEOPLES' MONEY (1914); the mit alum class news section of every issue of TECHNOLOGY REVIEW for leads to newly founded start-ups out of the institvte and independently, and more! see you in class! *** one special new non-profit education and research start-up case this year: THE HOPE ELEPHANT PROJECT - HOPE, MAINE! with founders dr. JIM LAURITA (dvm) and TOM LAURITA, plus an array of collaborators from maine high school students to world-class large animal rescue specialists, advisors, fundraisers and many more *** e-club page design by david sirkin '92, '92, '98 & '00 - currently at stanford *** first-ever e-club web page designed by joost bonsen '92 & '06, now a lecturer at the media lab *** comments, suggestions, and crits about content to rdshydur at mit dot edu ***

NEW! for spring term '12 *TECH STARTUPS AT MIT* seminar EC.075 (formerly sem.095) 6-credits (2-0-4) tue7pm in doc's old classroom 4-402 - see Edgerton Center new course num: EC.075 now! thanks prof KIM VANDIVER asst reg WAYNE JOHNSON the ec's AMY FITZ, and dean DONNA FRIEDMAN for all their help making this happen! and to the Committee on Curriculum for its decision to keep the e-club's seminars going on for-credit basis! THANKS! ...

*** each january our faculty advisor JOE HADZIMA '73, founder of, among other mit spin-offs IPVISION (see below) offers his 3-credit class: NUTS AND BOLTS OF B-PLANS, aka, mit course 15.975; details at: student.mit.edu/iap/fc15.html * it meets on some tuesday nights, so we re-sched e-club meetings around those dates * the 15.975 calendar, req's and syllabus are at: ipvisioninc.com/nutsandbolts *** joe also offers us his patent analytics visualisation software to try at the site: see-the-forest.com easily reachable via this widget /
*** promised end-of-term updates coming include: late rave reviews, with tons of pictures, covering our 3 recent PETER MUI '86 FIXIT CLINICS, kindly hosted by the mit EDGERTON CENTER, with invaluable guidance by the ec's great technical instructors TONY CALOGGERO and ED MORIARTY '76 - should be up over the mem day weekend; also a review of the club's first independently launched IPO, with alum, club member and advisor SEMYON DUKACH founder of SMTP.COM - which may be followed on the otcbb.com site - watch SMTP *** read your e-club occasional newsletter! learn who's presenting when and about what; stay up-to-date with our meetings and readings heads-ups! plus, late reminders of related on-campus happenings, and more *** - rlds