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the mit entrepreneurs club, aka: the e-club, in its 25th year, focuses on developing all aspects of science, engineering 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 56-154; offer two 6-credit mit seminars on tech start-ups (tuesdays at 7-9pm in 4-402, doc's old classroom up at the edgerton center); conduct special e-club demo meetings for visiting academic, government, ngo and science, engineering, technology and policy related business groups, and k-12 schools; sponsor clinics, panels & workshops; and regularly connect through an e-mail list and our occasional newsletter ... learn more ...

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** MIT SPRING TERM '13 **

*** this week in e-club - tue14may *** all welcome THOMAS SOHMERS, our youngest regular member at 17 (active since ~13) and winner of a 2013 thiel 20-under-20 $100k 2-year fellowship! come warmly congratulate thomas in this special meeting today at 6pm in 56-154, hear him relate his mit-isn soldier design competition experiences working under e-club advisor captain kurt keville (usma;mit;mit) and his thiel competition experience, and describe his summer '13 project *** ongoing: during summer-session '13 the club will help mit host 28 visiting singaporean s.u.t.d. u/g students, offering them our generally fun, informal presentation & practice venue with new tech start-up case founders to hear, meet & crit every week, and in additional depth after every meeting in our summer-session version of our tech startup seminars at 7pm *** come join us this week and help programme a very busy summer! *** regular, weekly, tuesday meetings start at 6pm * default location 56-154 * come share your science, engineering, technology, bio-x, pharma or med start-up thinking and help generate constructive feedback and crit for others' new or ongoing works *** welcome! wellesley & harvard students, and other members of those communities! *** to schedule your presentation contact e-club officers: pres OZ AGAR '13, treas NETIA MCCRAY '14, and or former pres JOSH SIEGEL '10,'11 (and now G) at e-club-officers at mit dot edu *** readings for spring term tech start-up seminar (6-credit EC.075, formally sem.095) always begin with _THE ATLANTIC CABLE_ by BERN DIBNER; all articles, columns & papers on tech start-ups and related topics by our faculty advisor senior lecturer JOE HADZIMA '73 - read: joe.hadzima.net for his paper & article archives, links and joe's very latest thoughts; 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! there's no specific required textbook, but we do a metric ton of reading, continuously! *** see you in class! *** one special new non-profit education & 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 more; come visit during one of our e-club rural retreat working weekends at rockport harbor or brooks village and we'll visit with our 2 (two) recently arrived first adoptees, rosy and opal! *** nb: the e-club also conducts summer-session meetings on most tuesdays, at 6pm-onward, in 56-114 (default location) all the short summer long * to sched summer-session office hours contact e-club-officers at mit dot edu *** you may also find us at at THE MIT FLEA (3rd sundays, 6am-2pm, april-thru-october) *** 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 ***

TECH START-UPS AT MIT (our 6-credit seminar, formerly sem.095, now in its 20th year) is currently offered under new course number EC.075: STARTING UP NEW TECH-BASED BUSINESS * (2-0-4) [P/D/F] Tue 7-9p in 4-402 * with our faculty advisor senior lecturer JOE HADZIMA, and myself, e-club co-fndr & co-dir RICHARD SHYDUROFF, now an affiliate instructor at the edgerton center; nb: this is, technically, an u/g seminar, but all graduate students are welcome to take our course for-credit with permission of their advisors * limited seats for listeners! ***

*** during fall-term'13 we offer part-1 of `tech startups at mit' - now re-numbered EC.074 (formerly seminar ec.s02; earlier sem.089) and bearing the new title: THE START-UP EXPERIENCE at MIT * 6-credits (2-0-4) tue7pm in doc's old classroom 4-402 - ref the Edgerton Center, new course also numbered ec.074 * our ongoing thanks to prof KIM VANDIVER, asst reg WAYNE JOHNSON and his staff, the ec's outreach co-ordinator AMYFITZ, 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 start-up seminars going on a for-credit basis! *** IAP '13! every january for 25 years our faculty advisor JOE HADZIMA '73, founder of, among other mit spin-offs IPVISION (see below) offers his 3-credit class: NUTS & BOLTS OF NEW VENTURES/B-PLANS, 15.S21, formerly mit course 15.975; details at: nutsandbolts.mit.edu * it meets on tue-wed-thu nights during the last 2 weeks of iap, thus e-club meetings are -re-sched'd around those dates * the nuts & bolts calendar, req's and syllabus are at: nutsandbolts.mit.edu * 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 *** are you an mit student or otherwise affiliated with CSAIL? request membership in the new CSAIL ENTREPRENEURS group! * regular, weekly, friday meetings are at 2pm in stata-by-gehry up in the STAR ROOM (aka: the 32-D463 seminar room) * search terms or send mail to ALBORZ GERAMIFARD afg at mit dot edu for particulars and or look for the group on fb *** for this plus related occasional news and intel, read your e-club at-least-weekly postings and irregularly published newsletter! learn who's presenting what and when in tuesday 6pm e-club meetings; stay up-to-date with our seminar cases and readings and special events and retreats heads-ups! plus, late (often very late) reminders of related on-campus happenings, and more ***