* FALL-TERM 2023 *
UPDATE: CURRENTLY MOST CLUB MEETINGS
CONTINUE ONLINE via ZOOM;
send e-mail to * COVID-19 CONDITIONS APPLY * all the club's tuesday 6pm
meetings, office-hours, and our 6-credit tech start-ups
at mit 7pm class meetings are being conducted in zoom *
all weekend retreats, workshops, and other activities
scheduled and planned-for have been cancelled until
they are not * be and stay well everyone * - rlds *
the mit entrepreneurs club, aka: the e-club, in its 33rd year,
is an mit academic and service club that focuses on helping to
develop all aspects of science, engineering and technology business
creation. our principal constituancies are students, faculty, staff
and alums of mit, harvard university and wellesley college. we meet
nearly every tuesday at 6pm-onward, during fall & spring academic
terms in room 56-114 ; we offer two
6-credit seminars - ec.074 in fall-term & ec.075 in spring, with sr.
lecturer joe hadzima '73, and e-club co-founder, co-director &
founder-designer of our seminars richard shyduroff, plus a wide
range of student & alum tas - theme: on tech start-ups at mit
(tuesdays at 7-9pm in 4-402, doc edgerton's old classroom, off
strobe alley); we conduct special e-club demo meetings for visiting
academic, government, ngo and science, engineering, technology &
policy related groups, and k-12 schools; we sponsor legal, mental &
physical health, negotiation & mediation, and stage & dramatic
arts clinics and workshops (all in order to improve our selves
and our own and student clients' tech start-up teams' communications
skills, including preparation for internal speaking, classroom,
campus & public presentations) and more. nb: the mit e-club is NOT
a lecture-based activity, does not like or use much power-point or
similar slide-presentation-s/w (all is chalk-and-talk, ie, at-the-
black-board) - and - we are also not food-focussed, per-se; bring
your own dinner or snacks, or eat before or after meetings. we do
provide water & dry sailors' crackers, and sometimes fruits and a
variety of chocolates. but, if you're looking for an mit free-food-
source, do NOT come to our meetings else you will be sorely dis-
appointed - and hungry. one of us should write-up this special
caveat on an updated e-club faq page (see elsewhere). we do
regularly connect through regular e-mail_list postings and related
activity and course reminders, plus our very occasional e-club
newsletter where you are encouraged to read more ...
we also offer open office-hours, on most tuesdays, at 4pm/5pm-5:55pm
in (by-default) 4-402; if the noisy ambience is requested we can
meet in lobby-10 (perhaps more audible-secure) ...
... learn more ... * our edgerton center tech start-up seminars are on break and
may again be offered for spring term 2024, pending joe's
and richard's calendars and other factors; check here often
and or look for updates in our regular weekly tuesday news
and announcements newsletters. tnx everyone! ~ rlds *
[ archive of just-over-our-horizons' fall-term 2022 here ]
[ archive of ongoing summer-session 2022 here ]
[ archive of spring-term 2022 here ]
[ archive of IAP 2022 here ]
[ archive of fall-term 2021 here ]
[ archive of summer-session 2021 here ]
[ archive of spring term 2021 here ]
[ archive of club & special seminars IAP 2021 here ]
a mid-term reminder * as-it-is-written there's always space
(-virtual) for 1 more in our tech start-up seminar ec.074 * and
in fact since we're still in zoom_mode there's plenty when
compared to the formal legal limit of 18 in venerable 4-402 *
we miss that old classroom hard * anyway, if you're an mit
student of any year, any school, from frosh to post-(G), please
consider joining us - even this late in the term * we nearly
always might be able to help get you registered late * same
invitation applies to all members of the mit community - faculty,
staff, alums, affiliates - drop by any of our tuesday 6pm club
meetings and stay for our seminar at 7-9pm * intro yourself
and what you might just be thinking about starting-up, what
you've been hacking creating, solo - or as a team of co-founders -
and or (because we always have a number of parallel entrepreneurs;
though we try to discourage that special behaviour) - bring along
your partners * the same applies to members of the harvard
college, the b-school, and all the other H-schools, and of course,
to the wellesley college community * remember that you can x-reg
from harvard & wellesley into our 6-credit courses too * for some
background and term readings check out our growing repository
in canvas.mit.edu * mit, harvard & wellesley student browsers
are always welcome * scan the myriad paras below for pointers
and hints to more resources * and subscribe to our announcements,
reminders of meetings, suggested readings, and mention of other,
- mostly at mit - activities list to which you may add yourself via
the mit mailman e-club 'public' list * and in the meanwhiles,
be & stay well everyone * looking forward, - rlds ***
fall-term 2020 commences next tue01sep * our 6pm club and
7pm-to-9pm 6-credit tech start-ups at mit seminar ec.074 as well
as office-hours with joe hadzima and myself richard shyduroff
also start next tuesday * send joe a note to request a day
and time to meet at (e-mail) and or myself for nearly-on-demand
time at (e-mail) * all e-club meetings and our
seminar classes and office-hours are remote in zoom mode until
they are not * old dare we name them ancient bits else-where
among these pages regarding the details of our seminars
referencing u/g seminars sem.089 and sem.095 are about to be
archived * current bits reflecting our seminars ec.074 for
fall-term and ec.075 for spring-term will begin to populate
those elder files' locations in space and time * thanks so
much everyone for your kind patience * be & stay well * hack
safe & sane * and more ***
streams noon-2pm today fri29may at commencement.mit.edu *
plus numerous after-party parties and more * just follow
the sub-heads * some may require requests-for-invites and
some may require mit kerberos ids and certs * best possible
luck out there everyone! be and stay well and work, hack,
play, and continue studying safe and sane * and 'hack the
world!' - president l. rafael reif * and remember, 'captain
america is not coming to the rescue' - commencement speaker
4-star admiral, u.s.n. retired, william mcraven ***
[ archives of summer-session 2020 here ]
e-club-remote + our tech start-up seminar ec.075-remote
went live via zoom on tue10mch * join us! * hours are
the same for club at 6pm and seminar at 7pm-9pm * write
to e-club-officers for the nums, pwd, and phone-in
details * late office-hours-remote start at 9pm and
run 'til around midnight * write rdshydur for a different
set of zoom nums for office-hours ***
[ archives of spring term 2020 here ]
[ archives of iap 2020 here ]
[ archives of fall-term 2019 here ]
[ archives of spring-term 2019 here ]
suggested readings for spring-term seminar ec.075 ***
recurring!
sat19jan - club alum advisor kurt keville, usma, mit, bu,
mit course-6-'90, mit esd-'11, director of special projects
at mit's institute for soldier nanotechnologies, the isn,
plus founder of the isn's soldier design competition, the sdc,
now in its 12th year, and more, hosts this year's IoT-fest
at mit on saturday 19 january starting at 2pm in e51-315 *
featured special speaker alum bob frankston, course-6 + math,
more course-6 + more course-6, founder of software arts, plus
kurt and an interesting array of others this iap * details
and backgrounders at ttn.mit.edu ***
wed16jan: Mary Knapp on Space Based Radio Astronomy and the Low
Frequency Universe, Tonight @5:30pm in room 3-270 * sponsored
special series on radio by w1mx, the venerable mit radio society *
see w1mx.mit.edu * series details/scheds w1mx.mit.edu/iap-2019/ ***
suggested readings for iap'19 ***
IAP 2019 - during mit's venerable independent activities
period, approaching its 50th year, the e-club takes a low-
profile back-seat to the myriad offerings across the entire
institute * read all about it and browse the iap catalogue
at iap.mit.edu * we do boost a few select iap courses, work-
shops, seminars, labs, for-credit and just for fun and
enrichment * members of the club and our seminar students
and alums often create new one-off courses across the
spectrum not limited to the theme of tech entrepreneurship *
some few have been running iap classes and activities for
many years * got ideas? it's nearly never-to-late to submit
an iap proposal all through the month - details at iap.mit.edu
and or if you're an e-club member in-good-standing run it by
us and we probably can help find a room in which to conduct *
send us mail at tue11dec: final regular, weekly, tuesday, OPEN 6pm club meeting
of the fall-term * followed at 7pm-9pm with our joint end-of-term
dinner around our ec.074 students' final paper oral presentations,
with feedback, crits and discussion by club-core, more students,
drop-by faculty, staff and alum advisors and regulars - and often -
new spring-term prospective club & seminar students, for-credit
or as listeners * know some of our students and alums are in
this with us for 'purely academic reasons and pursuits' * our
end-of-term dinners are always more-good-fun and you should join
in! * help support the program, if you are game & able, by
offering to under-writing the entire cost of dinner - or - simply
chip in $10 for yourself and 1-other in our take-a-student-to-
dinner option * and, sure, bring along something to eat to share
too! we have some darn good cooks in club and class ***
tue04dec: OPEN 6pm meeting in 56-114 with club advisor and
instructor alum mark hessler '86, plus the masters in education,
harvard ed school, and more, in our 7pm tech start-up seminar *
mark offers us his occasional joint e-club and seminar workshop
in theater arts & stage tools for learning and developing our
presence, voices, gestures and related human communications'
factors to increase the probablity we'll be better presenters,
listeners, team builders and maintainers, and more * this is
always a good-fun evening of real-time exercises and coaching
with mark, who spends his day-time hours hacking for akamai *
come to the 6pm session to practice your pitching and to our
7pm seminar up in 4-402 for the workshop ***
tue27nov: OPEN 6pm meeting in 56-114 as-per-usual * come
welcome new founders, hear-out, and crit their cases * in-
seminar this evening joe hadzima '73 offers our occasional
mini-workshops in equity and funding sources, plus all about
collaboration agreements, and more, at 7pm in 4-402 ***
[ archives of fall term meetings & seminar bits here *
[ for seminar readings plus other materials use stellar ]
tue04sep: it's REG-DAY! consider our tech start-ups at mit
fall-term edgerton center based seminar ec.074 * (2-0-4)
class meets tuesdays at 7pm-9pm in 4-402 (doc edgerton's
old classroom, along strobe alley, at the edgerton center) *
join club & seminar advisors senior lecturer joe hadzima '74,
myself, richard shyduroff, edgerton center affiliate instructor
and co-founder of the mit e-club, our seminars, and our retreats,
plus the club's 3-presidents, your student friends & co-founders
and best sources of constructive feedback, plus a wide variety
of faculty, staff and alums who often just happen to be passing-
by our class-room when they 'just drop in' to update us * really,
i do not set up these instances of surprise ***
tue15may: a crazy-wild, fluffy, and potentially dangerous
bio-x start-up scheme with founder mathematician-programmer
angelika generates a number of interesting potential spin-
off and derivative ideas in the 6pm meeting which featured
a number of totally rain-storm-soaked students and alums who
managed later to make it to the s'n's /early/ for our ongoing
fun-filled end-of-term dinner * thanks to alum mark hessler
for another of his e-club/seminars ec.075/ec.074 dinner workshops
this interesting evening on communications issues; discussants'
3-club-presidents alums thomas delgado, charles freeman and
alex sludds (G) all responded and helped crit * more in club
archives and on our fall-term-'18's stellar site; mit certs req'd
* thanks alums, advisors and friends who kindly-chipped-in to
pay for our students' meals and to the s'n's management and staff
for granting us the regular use of the restaurant's conference
room for our late tuesday night joint e-club and seminar functions ***
tue08may: new case, with founder alum rob chan '98,
biology, the berkeley-hass mba, and more, for verendipity.com *
please participate in rob's 1-2minute potential users' survey
at surveymonkey.com/r/LCDCZRG ***
tue01may: review of visit and presentation coaching of
masha mostovoy's start-up talk with alum club advisor
jeremy sher '99, mathematics, plus harvard divinity school '16,
and more, with rabbi jeremy in seminar * late dinner after with
students, faculty, alums and friends ***
tue24apr: OPEN 6pm meeting in 56-114 * our tech start-up
seminar ec.075 at 7pm-9pm in 4-402 * after class dinner
with club core & advisors by-invitation-only ***
tue17apr: institvte holiday * no office-hours, no 6pm club,
no 7pm seminar, no late-dinner-after * strongly suggested
all-day mit-day-of-action 10am-8pm * dayofaction.mit.edu ***
tue10apr: * club exec case advising mit eyes only *
tue03apr: welcome back! OPEN 6pm club meeting * seminar
ongoing cases continue with kyle morgenstein, course-16 *
new case today: botong 'bo' ma, course-6 (G) on her concept
Managing Real Estate for Rich People Who Can't Even * bo
is a regular in club, an irregular in seminar, and her
hobbies include running, making pottery, rock climbing,
and memes * welcome bo * 6pm in 56-114 & 7pm in 4-402 ***
tue27mch: mit's on spring break * go hack on your start-up!
tue20mch: special 6pm club intensive with masha mostovoy
focussing on semyon dukach's new funding immigrant tech
start-ups project * combined 5pm office-hours + club +
seminar * nb: mit eyes only tonight * goes to at least 8pm ***
tue13mch: mit snow day * else archive * remote office-hours
by e-mail only tonight, thanks, 'til 0000 ***
tue06mch: office-hours-iffy-today - check with me *
in 6pm club financials advisor ross gutman, mba, tepper, cmu,
co-founder & the fins-guy for the cannabis testing service
mcrlabs.com on his start-up's growth and futures *
stay with us for seminar ec.075 at 7pm in 4-402 * or,
stay in 56-114 for e-club advisor kurt keville and his
occasional 'mit hacks jeopardy' activity at 8pm * read our
news-letter for the particulars * queries to debug at mit ***
tue27feb: archive of kyle morgenstein, course-16, presentation
on one of his start-up comms projects based on cube-sats ***
tue20feb: today is monday's sched of classes * no office-hours *
no 6pm club * no seminar * no after-class-dinner * no post-
dinner-thing when & 'til they kick us out * it's all due to
so-called presidents' day weekend in the u.s.a. ***
tue13feb: just a reminder that our 6-credit tech start-up
seminar with joe hadzima '73 (plus jd/h-law, sloan/mba, and
more) course num ec.075 (tue 7pm-9pm in 4-402) has room for
more students, welcome also as x-reg'ds from harvard and
wellesley * joe's returned from his travels and will be
in class this evening; i'm working from home in maine
today but reachable for remote-office-hours pref by e-mail:
rdshydur at mit dot edu * thanks! but not in the usual
4pm-6pm slot, rather well after dark, up-to ~0000 ***
tue13feb: 6pm club today welcomes back alum advisor capt.
kurt keville, usma, course-6, b.u., more course-6, and
esd; founder & director of the mit annual soldier design
competition (the sdc) now in its 15th consecutive year *
capt keville will talk up the contest, which includes
student team building at both the institvte and at the
u.s. military academy * like many of us kurt wears numerous
hats, including that of director of special projects at
mit's isn (the institute for soldier nanotechnologies)
where the principle challenge is protecting & supporting
soldiers on-the-ground and first responders everywhere *
details of the sdc at sdc.mit.edu * for the isn more
broadly & deeply see isnweb.mit.edu * that's 6pm in 56-114 ***
tue06feb: 6pm club case update meeting in 56-114 -
an open-source political canvassing & campaign s/w system -
with co-founders club past president thomas delgado, club's
most recent president charles freeman, just graduated, and
new president alex sludds * follow-on & more in seminar
at 7pm including a warm welcome to our new students angie,
neil, li & maria, and welcome back for more, kyle *
learn about our 6-credit 'tech start-ups at mit' seminar
ec.075, first meeting of the new term, today, tuesday, at
7pm-9pm in 4-402, immediately following club * course
description and more mit edgerton center offerings at
edgerton.mit.edu/academics/subjects/seminars ***
tue06feb: new! club advisor alum henry lieberman, phd,
visited last spring term to lead a discussion in our
seminar ec.075 around his and co-author chris fry's
new book 'why can't we all just get along?' *
henry was, as expected, very well received, and though
i promised we'd invite him back regularly, here he & fry
have organised an entire course that the venerable mit-esg
is hosting! and i, for one, highly recommend it!
and, toby & i hope to be able to sit in from time-to-time;
and though you may also be hosed tuesday afternoons, we
suggest you make time too! * why can't we all just get along?
esg seminar es.s71, meets tue, 3pm-5pm in 24-619 * details at
http://esg.mit.edu/learninginnovation/undergraduate-seminars/
* for the book, tedx talk, and more www.whycantwe.org ***
archive club-related & suggested activities here *
principle linked default tue-wed-thu 23,24,25 and
tue-wed-thu 30,31 and 01feb are all joe hadzima's
29th annual nuts & bolts series * who's-who, sched,
details, syllabus & more at nutsandbolts.mit.edu *
all starting times 6pm in 10-250 ***
tue12dec: 7pm! end-of-term joint dinner e-club + seminar ec.074 *
our fall term students present oral verisons of their term's
work papers, field questions and lead discussions * 7pm in
4-402 * rsvp for dinner and plan to chip-in $10/head -
students eat on us! in our feed-a-student programme ***
tue12dec: 6pm club! new case presentation with thomas delgado
and co-founders * details forthcoming as-of 3pm/mon04dec ***
tue05dec: new case in 6pm club - 100k finalist adam hasz '18 (G,
course-11), co-founder of the energy democracy cooperative +
alum advisor mark hessler '87, harvard ed school '89, running
our joint theater arts' for presentations workshop in our 7pm
seminar ec.074 * wrap-up of our legal clinic for tech start-ups
last-minute-topics with joe hadzima '73 at start of class ***
mon04dec: heads-up! students in our tech start-up seminar
ec.074 * today dean chacon reminds us the end-of-term
subjects evaluations site is now OPEN * PLEASE do participate!
all other students, alums and regulars in club, listeners
and guests in class - please send joe and myself your feedback,
suggestions, rants (raves too! (smile)), plus crits, &c, re
the club, seminar and any of our other activities * thanks! ***
tue28nov: sufficient club regulars were absent last week
travelling early that thomas re-scheduled amber houghstow '11
to today, at 6pm, in 56-114 * see details in last tuesday's
posting below *** at 7pm, immediately following the club
meeting, join us for part-2 of our occasional joint LEGAL
CLINIC for tech start-ups, as practiced at mit, with
club advisor alum joe hadzima '73, at 7pm, up in 4-402 *
all members of the mit, wellesley & harvard communities are
welcome, as always ***
tue21nov: new case in 6pm club today - alumna amber houghstow '11,
course-2, mla, harvard-ext '17, internat'l relations, and more,
presents her start-up climate/peacebuilding nonprofit to provide
fiscal and strategic support to grassroots climate and
environmental justice organizers [and presumably candidates]
in locations that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change *
host this evening - past club president, oloa, thomas delgado *
please welcome amber and help generate critial feedback, build
her network, and more ***
tue21nov: no 4pm office-hours & no formal 7pm seminar today *
see above entry for details of the 6pm club meeting ***
tue14nov: archive ***
tue07nov: archive ***
tue24oct: OPEN session meeting of the e-club today with
our new student president charles freeman '18, intro'd by
on-leave-of-absence past club president thomas delgado,
course-24, and others * please come help welcome charles
and bring your sci, eng, tech start-up case, in nearly any
b-model known, un-known, and/or under-development *
stay at 7pm for joe hadzima '73, for joe's talk and
discussion with our ec.074 students on business models *
7pm in 4-402, doc edgerton's old classsroom * details on
the mit stellar site pages for seminar ec.074 ***
tue17oct: the e-club goes on a little field trip with
our tech start-up seminar ec.074, at 7pm, to participate
in the course-6 hkn honor society's BAD IDEAS PITCH
COMPETITION at 7:30pm in 38-201, aka: the chu room, aka:
the course-6 student lounge * FUN! ***
tue10oct: an evening with alum club advisor mark herschberg,
'95 (sb,6&8; meng-6; founder,upop) at 6pm in club in 56-114 *
plus mark's career talk at 7:30 in 10-105, aka, the bush room *
more * today's an mit holiday, thus no formal seminar ec.074
this evening * if possible go hear & meet mark * his linked-in-
style backgrounder is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hershey/ ***
tue03oct: archive of meeting here ***
tue26sep: an e-club OPEN special demo meeting with visiting
welsh business and government clients of the mit i.l.p.,
aka, the industrial liaison program * bring your start-up
cases and intro yourself to digital profile, with dan watts;
coup media ('we build bots'), with paul sheperd; plas farm,
with rhian williams; trakcel, with martin lamb; wales bt,
(british telecom), with alwen williams; ruth bacigalupo,
delivery & development manager for the welsh government; and
the mit-ilp's marie-teresa vander sande, program director
at corporate relations * 6pm-onward in 56-114 ***
tue19sep: your 6pm session host this evening is mit alum
and advisor mark hessler '87, ms harvard ed school, dramatic
arts, music & writing tutor, and, by-day, senior software
engineer over at akamai * though tonight's meeting is OPEN,
mark may wish to conduct an intro session to his workshops
with us in our seminars * please welcome back mark ***
tue12sep: the club resumes regular, weekly activities today
starting at 4pm with office-hours for ongoing and new founders
and new and returning students in ec.074, in lobby-10 * our
tuesday 6pm OPEN meeting for mit, harvard & wellelsey students,
faculty, staff & alums in 56-114 * and our mit 6-credit tech
start-up seminar ec.074 at 7pm-9pm in 4-402 ***
wed21jun: [draft] suggested summer readings include joe hadzima's
occasional i.p.vision company blog & newsletters * here's today's
sample: Apple Granted a Staggering 54 Patents in One Day * reading
and more at http://info.ipvisioninc.com/blog * it's also
never-too-early to prep for our iap readings always applicable
in-seminar * see joe's 3-credit offering at nutsandbolts.mit.edu
where he's archived a great deal of material & references *
let the club's summer readings begin! ***
tue30may: our 6-credit tech start-up seminars return in fall-term
* ec.074 (2-0-4) meets for 13 tuesdays starting tue12sep * see
edgerton.mit.edu under courses for details ***
tue23may: [no-office-hours; no 6pm meeting; no
seminar ec.075 today] * it's mit final exams week *
good luck everyone! ***
tue16may: archives of joint club & seminar ec.075 end-
of-term dinner here * list student & alum presenters
and their research case titles & projects * include
pointers to club summer-session activities (3) planned
but not yet programmed * locs & dates are tbd ***
tue09may: put missing tuesday archives here ...
tue02may: [no-office-hours-today] - OPEN 6pm club session
in 56-114 * our occasional legal clinic for tech start-ups
with sr lecturer joe hadzima '73, in seminar ec.075, at 7pm
in 4-402 * open to the mit, harvard & wellesley communities *
all students, faculty, staff & alums as well as new prospective
students for seminar ec.074, fall-term '17 * come by and check
out the 6-credit academic component of the e-club * welcome ***
tue25apr: OPEN club session with returning past president
mit alum thomas delgado at 6pm in 56-114 and in seminar
ec.075 at 7pm in 4-402 * don't forget to watch live-streaming
and voting for club & seminar alumna tatyana gubin at the
hbs new ventures competition, also today, 4:30pm-6pm on
hbs.edu/nvc and live voting:
https://hbs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9SSYPFmwPwtpQot * also
turn off blockers or qualtrics won't function ***
tue04apr: NO office-hours today * 6pm club is OPEN format *
7pm seminar ec.075 class resumes with joe hadzima '73
leading a discussion on business models * special guests
include sloan school's bar zvi kafri (G) managing director
of the mit 100k competition - plus returning case
velopay founder & club advisor (legal) peter mclaughlin
searching for tech & product co-founders * thanks again all
for everyones' patience this very busy term * r will be
available remotely for office-hours tonight (e-mail only
please) from after-dark to the wee hours ***
tue28mch: no office-hours/no club meeting/no seminar *
mit's on spring-break this week ***
tue21mch: fedor sokolov, founder, elk academy language
learning, coaching, and more * see: elk.today * 6pm in
56-114 * follow-on deeper with our students in ec.075
at 7pm in 4-402 ***
tue14mch: alas, an mit snow-day happened; no meetings/no
classes ***
tue07mch: archive of athena wang and masha mostovoy visit
representing new case canopy.city in club and seminar ***
tue28feb: short office-hours are 4pm-5pm in lobby-10 * join
us at 5:30-7:30 over in E14-6th-floor for a welcome/info/intro
session with KATIE RAE @ktrae inaugural pres & ceo of mit's
new ENGINE inititative * details/rsvps-req'd @enginexyz * later
join us at 7pm-9pm in our tech start-up seminar ec.075 in 4-402 *
harvards & wellesely college students of all-years-all-departments
welcome * 6-mit-credits (2-0-4) p/f/d * listener status possible
for h/w communities ***
tue14 & tue21mch: put missing tuesday archives here ...
tue07feb: e-club regular tuesday weekly start-up case presentation
and discussion sessions resume at 6pm in 56-114 * our 6-credit
tech start-ups at mit seminars, EC.075 in spring-term, resumes
today - first class meeting at 7pm-9pm in doc edgerton's old
classroom, where the e-club held its first meeting back in c1987
or 1988 (smile) room 4-402 * just a reminder that the club's and
our seminars' classes, workshops and clinics are based at mit's
edgerton center along doc's `strobe alley' and that all members of
the mit community are encouraged to help support the edgerton center,
especially its k-12 outreach programmes headed by amy fitzgerald *
e-mail amyfitz at mit dot edu -and- and ed moriarty who offers area
k-12 kids interested in all things stem & steam his regular week-end
activity `the saturday thing' - e-mail mory at mit dot edu - and
follow his sci-tech-math k-12 school startup project * mail ed for
particulars and the latest news *** more ***
iap - january's independent activities period *
archives of e-club & select related activities & memorials
go here in some future marathon of writing tightly ***
archives of fall-term-'16 appear below
tue13dec: 6pm-7pm in 56-114 * an e-club discussion with alum
SEMYON DUKACH, founder of smtp.com and numerous other tech
companies, now managing director of the boston offices of
TECH STARS, and investor in 101 tech start-ups * open only
to members of the mit, harvard & wellesley communities ***
PLUS! also on tue13dec: 7pm-9pm! END-of-TERM DINNER, joint with
our edgerton center seminar students & advisors in EC.074, on
tech start-ups * this term it's a POT-LUCK/BYO activity, for a
change-of-factors * special guest student case responders are
alums SEMYON DUKACH, founder of smtp.com and numerous other tech
companies, now managing director of the boston offices of TECH
STARS, and investor in 101 tech start-ups, plus MARK HESSLER '87,
ms, the harvard ed school, and more, who is the leader & mentor
of the e-club's workshops in presentation skills building *
club, seminar & end-of-term dinner is open only to members of
the mit, harvard & wellesley communities * 7pm-9pm in 4-402 ***
tue15nov: special demo & discussion session with mit-ilp visiting
delegation of tech start-up founders, educators & advisors from
wales (u.k.) 6pm-onward in 56-114 *** come talk up your sci, eng,
and or tech start-up and help welcome our welsh colleagues ***
tue08nov:
tue01nov:
tue18oct: OPEN format practice presentation session today * first
preference for mit students * be a science, engineering and
or technology founder or proto-founder, ie, just-thinking-
about creating a start-up * crit & supportive feedback by live
audience, in-real-time * nb! e-club sessions are not documented
and not streamed * wellesley & harvard students always welcome *
faculty, staff & alums also invited and, if time allows, to
present and or assist setting up special & demo meetings * stay
at 7pm for the e-club's 6-credit tech start-up seminar, listed in
the mit course catalogue as ec.074 in fall-term; ec.075 in spring
* always a spare seat for new adds; harvard & wellesley x-regs
encouraged * office-hours, 4-6pm in lobby-10 * club at 6pm in 56-114 *
seminars at 7pm-9pm in 4-402, up at the edgerton center ***
tue04oct: today, OPEN format and /organisational/ meeting, 6pm
in 56-114 * brief intros all-'round with president vinnie ramesh
(G), course-6, and treasurer jason leibel '20, plus past officers
and co-directors as-available - plus new and returning student
members and new students interested in sharing their start-up
projects and challenges, or often just-nascent-thoughts while
we talk about our ongoing work re-organising the club, drafting
our updated constitution, and more * if time we'll also review
this term's and last's cases headed from club to our 6-credit
tech start-up seminar, ec.074 in fall-term & ec.075 in spring,
at 7pm in 4-402 * all members of the mit, harvard & wellesley
communities are welcome and encouraged to join more formally as
regular, weekly, tuesday members in-club and as students
for-credit or as listeners in-class ***
tue27sep: wellesley alumna & former mit x-reg'd student
sara dickhaus de zarraga brings her harvard innovation lab
start-up project flarejewelry.com to the e-club today for a
technical discussion around how the product will work to deter
personal physical attackers and summon help * if interested
in working on this project, please contact sara directly by
e-mail at < sara@flarejewelry.co > ***
tue20sep: [archive brief presentation summary & discussion here]
with new treasurer jason seibel '20, reviews a number of his
tech start-up ideas ***
tue13sep: [archive brief presentation summary & discussion here]
with new president vinnie ramesh (G), reviews his company
wellframe.com]
tue06sep: it's reg-day at the institvte! consider the
e-club's 6-credit tech start-up seminar EC.074 for fall term ***
(p/f/d) (2-0-4) *** meets tuesdays at 7pm-9pm up in doc
edgerton's old classroom at the mit edgerton center 4-402 ***
see edgerton.mit.edu/subjects/seminars for details *** co-taught
by e-club team sr. lecturer joe hadzima '73 & club co-founder
and co-director richard shyduroff, affiliate instructor at
the edgerton center, plus tas toby shyduroff and returning
seminar & course-6 alum, now (G), also course-6, vinay `vinnie'
ramesh, plus a range of other students & alums *** there's a
hard-limit of 20 participants, but always a seat for 1 more ***
harvard & wellesley x-registered students are encouraged to
check us out - bring your school's add-forms to our first class
meeting on /next/ tuesday the 13th *** looking forward! ***
select archives of summer-session '16 appear below *** the
big news is the e-club is undergoing re-building! and our
new student president is course-6 alum vinay `vinnie' ramesh '12,
founder of wellframe health information in boston *** our search
for a new student treasurer is ongoing (the workload of the
treasurer is effectively zero as the e-club does't take funding
from mit, and we do not accept funding from outside commercial
interests) ***
fri10jun: there shall exist an e-club summer-session!
it may not meet regularly or even on tuesdays at 6pm *
it may meet in a variety of locations across campus *
our summer-sessions often include random, annoyingly-
short-notice invitation-only rural and sea-side retreats
focused on select case & founder challenges, issues
and under-the-radar projects ***
mon13jun: e-club mit alum advisor kurt keville intros
boston's city-wide new crowdfunded chapter of the IoT's
netherlands-based https://thethingsnetwork.org/c/Boston/
project at noon in 4-237 as part of the nyc techstar's IoT
group information session hosted by the mit bitcoin club ***
tue07jun: put select spring-term '15 archives here ...
tue02feb: office-hours 4pm-6pm in lobby-10 * regular,
weekly, 6pm e-club meeting in 56-114 * our 6-credit
tech start-up seminar EC.075 first-class-meeting 7pm
in 4-402 with advisor joe hadzima '73 and club co-founder
and seminar founder richard shyduroff ***
mon01feb: it's reg-day at the institvte! * register for
our 6-credit tech start-up seminar: ec.075 * read all about
it elsewhere on these pages and check out all the other
course, activity, club & outreach offerings on the mit
edgerton center homepages at edgerton.mit.edu ***
select archives of fall-term '15 appear below ...
tue24nov: club & seminar office-hours 4pm-5:55pm in
lobby-10 * OPEN MEETING in club at 6pm-onward in 56-114 *
LEGAL CLINIC for TECH START-UPS part-2 w/ JOE HADZIMA -
see particulars in last week's posting below ***
tue17nov: our nth annual joint e-club & seminar ec.074
LEGAL CLINIC for TECH START-UPS with sr. lecturer, club &
seminar advisor JOE HADZIMA '73 * 7pm in 4-402 * nth year
in our long-standing legal clinics series for mit students,
faculty, staff & alums * harvard and wellesley communities
welcome * bring your student co-founders, advisors,
investors and early hires ***
tue10nov: ProtonMail situation update and case review
with mit's V. ALEX BRENNAN, engineer at protonmail, one of
our start-up seminar ec.075's cases * follow-on video-conf
session (to-be-scheduled) with protonmail co-founder ANDY YEN,
harvard phd candidate in physics, data scientist at c.e.r.n.,
cross-registered in our course, and more ***
tue03nov: mit alum & miters member start-up up-date
case and discussion with TIM ROBERTSON '11 (course-2) on
his diy 3-wheel electric cart kit company * in club at 6pm
in 56-114 * later tim joins us in our tech start-up seminar
ec.074 at 7pm in 4-402 * topics include naming the company,
dealing with i.p. and fund-raising for prototype components ***
tue27oct: the e-club and seminar ec.074 welcomes back
ATUL SINGH - founder, ceo & editor-in-chief of Fair
Observer - see: fairobserver.com - a journal on world
affairs - for an evening update of his numerous writing
and teaching projects at uc-berkeley, iit (gandhinagar),
and, occasionally at mit * 6pm in 56-114 ***
tue20oct: launch-info session for mit's ISN's
(institute for soldier nanotechnologies) 13th annual
SOLDIER DESIGN COMPETITION 2015 * leader e-club alum advisor
capt KURT KEVILLE, course-6 & mit-esd, director of isn special
projects and founder of the sdc * 6pm-onward in 56-114 *
competition details at http://isnweb.mit.edu/sdc13.html ***
tue13oct: [probably] NO regular 6pm club presentation;
NO seminar ec.074 tonight * monday's sched of classes ***
tue06oct: welcome back to campus e-club president,
networker+++, founder of Mbadika.org, author and club alum advisor
NETIA McCRAY '13
(physics & political science) just returned from a tour of
her projects in the u.s., south africa and south america *
stay for an in-depth discussion with netia in seminar ec.074
with our new students and advisor JOE HADZIMA '73, also just
returned from weeks-of-travels * in 4-402 at 7pm ***
tue29sep: today's OPEN format meeting featured alum
TIM ROBERTSON '10, course-2a, proposing a new [stealth project]
* an in-depth business, marketing & technical concepts update &
discussion followed with tim in-class at 7pm ***
tue22sep: OPEN meeting featuring small discussion
group format with advisors david chandler, toby shyduroff,
roth michaels, tim robertson and richard shyduroff ***
tue15sep: office-hours 4pm-6pm in lobby-10 *
first e-club meeting of the fall term 6pm-onward
in 56-114 * today: welcome visiting tepper mba, former
hertz corp financials guy (for select u.s. markets and
canada), and currently the finances advisor to a
massachusetts-based start-up plant testing lab, and
more, ROSS GUTMAN, free agent * followed at 7pm by our first
class meeting of our tech start-up seminar ec.074 - the
start-up experience at mit - runs to 9pm in 4-402 *
registered students and guests may access course
materials on mit's stellar site * limited seating
for listeners; first pref for mit, harvard & wellesley
students - faculty, staff & alums next ***
tue08sep: no office-hours * no e-club * no seminar *
it's reg-day at the institvte! * register for our 6-credit
tech start-up seminar: ec.074 * read all about it elsewhere
on these pages and check out all the other course, activity,
club & outreach offerings on the mit edgerton center
homepages at edgerton.mit.edu ***
brief archive of spring'15 follows ...
just a reminder that the mit e-club is an academic,
institvte-wide service organisation, run by an all-
volunteer staff of students, faculty, staff & alums *
our only cross-registered students are harvards & wellesley
women * others should make best use of their own schools'
similar service & support orgs - and or - start-up your own
campus group! - and or - familiarise yourself with your
local municipal & state small business development
departments as well as the federal sba (small business
administration at sba.gov) * thanks for understanding
our plates are totally overflowing with our own regular
constituancies ... - r, for the mit e-club-core & mit
seminars ec.075 & ec.074 ***
summer-session 2015: there's some growing interest in
an e-club summer-session again (no particular theme
and no special visiting constituancy, yet) * if enough
members of the mit community want the club to offer
summer-session meetings (tuesdays at 6pm) let us know
as term winds down and we shall see * thanks, - rlds ***
tue19may: no office-hours * no e-club * no seminar *
good luck everyone at the institvte and beyond taking
final exams this week, and with our demos, end-of-term
projects, final papers & re-writes, thesis defences, and
putting all our hanging bits & paperwork to bed to enable
graduation! - rlds, for the e-club-core & seminars
ec.075 & ec.074 ***
tue12may: e-club & seminar ec.075 joint end-of-term
dinner with student start-up case research paper oral
presentations, crits, discussions & reviews * e-club
cases & end-of-term wrap-up at 6-7pm in 56-114 * dinner
and papers in seminar at 7pm-9pm in 4-402 * RSVP req'd!
send mail to rdshydur at mit dot edu ***
tue05may: PACKED! a special demo meeting of e-club &
seminar ec.075 * an evening of mit & visiting tech start-up
presentations & crits with 12 visiting high school students
of entrepreneurship from HIGH MOWING SCHOOL (a waldorf school
located in new hamsphire) lead by mhs reg MIKO CARDENAS -plus-
5 guest presenters from istanbul's tech start-up accelerator
at sabanci university lead by director KUTLU KAZANCI -plus-
an update on the mit spin-off start-up Mbadika.org, an edu
tech r&d ngo project by mit alumna founder NETIA McCRAY '13,
visiting from her base in south africa * come intro yourself,
your cases & project/s and stay for our spring-term dramatic
arts & stagecraft for founders workshop with club advisor
alum MARK HESSLER '86 (sb, physics & creative writing; ma,
harvard ed school; more) * as always, subscribe-to & read your
e-club & seminar ec.075 postings, news & updates for more *
details here as the date nears ***
tue28apr: special e-club & seminar ec.075 evening of
mit tech start-up presentations & crits with visiting tech
students of entrepreneurship from the netherland's
YES!DELFT STUDENTS group *plus* several founders and
investors representing academic, government and
business entities in WALES & SCOTLAND, visiting mit
this week as guests of the mit-ilp (the mit industrial
liaison program) * late additional delegates now from
the tech start-up Accelerator at Sabanci University,
TURKEY, represented by director KUTLU KAZANCI, plus
several mit guests accompanying * read your e-club &
seminar ec.075 postings, news & updates for more *
details here as the date nears *** nb: bring your own
grub & or refreshments or eat earlier or later * we
feature this evening only water, a sparse few ginger
ales (all at slightly below rm temp) and dry sailors'
crackers; we may add bananas at 7pm in seminar ***
tue21apr: patriots' day institvte holiday * no office-
hours * no regular weekly tuesday club meeting * no seminar
ec.075 class * work hard but catch-up on your sleep ***
tue14apr: special e-club & seminar ec.075 evening of
start-up presentations & crits with 20 visiting tech
students of entrepreneurship from mexico * read e-club
and seminar postings & news for more and details here as
the date nears ***
tue07apr: in-seminar ec.075 PART-2 of our tech start-up
LEGAL CLINIC with JOE HADZIMA '73 (see details elsewhere in
these columns) -plus- tonight's case CarKnow LLC, with founder
and mit alum JOSH SIEGEL (course-2 phd candidate) (for more
read about josh in these columns) * 7pm-9pm in 4-402 ***
tue07apr: OPEN format meeting, 6pm in 56-114 followed
at 7:30pm by a talk & discussion with IEEE president elect
BARRY SHOOP on a wide range of the organisation's current and
futures work and related activities, plans & programmes * barry
is visiting campus this week as part of his regular
ambassadorial role * he'll be sharing his `update on IEEE
activities, with a particular emphasis on discussing the
breadth of contemporary methods and research that have the
potential to transform conventional engineering processes.' *
e-club host & organiser for this special session is KURT
KEVILLE * send kurt queries at keville at mit dot edu ***
tue31mch: 7pm * join us for our occasional joint LEGAL
CLINIC for TECH START-UPS with JOE HADZIMA '73 - with
seminar ec.075 - at 7pm in 4-402, immediately following
the 6pm e-club meeting * open to all members of the
mit, harvard & wellesley communities * limited seating!
arrive on time! ***
tue31mch: 6pm * OPEN format e-club meeting * see any
below OPEN meeting description for more * in 56-114 ***
tue24mch: NO regular, weekly tuesday meeting & NO
tech start-up seminar ec.075 this week - mit will be
on spring break ***
tue17mch: OPEN FORMAT meeting today at 6pm in 56-114 *
bring your ideas and project updates to present and help
crit others' talks * we discourage power-point, favoring
rather off-the-top-chalk-&-talk-at-the-blackboard-style *
your meeting moderator today is YOU! if you're interested
in getting your feet wet - and you're an mit, harvard
and or wellesley student - you have the floor! plus other
regular e-club-core members to provide encouragement ***
tue10mch: OPEN meeting at 6pm-onward in 56-114 ***
in seminar ec.075 * alum GREG MOELLER on his new startup
ALLYKE.com - visual search & scientific decision making *
greg's start-ups include qd vision, bluefin robotics, and
more * see greg's linked-in profile for more * 7pm-9pm
in 4-402 *** post-seminar-follow-up: greg introduced us to
a new funding model he's using * see Grunt Fund equity
allocation at: www.slicingpie.com/ ***
tue03mch: OPEN meeting at 6pm-onward in 56-114 ***
in seminar ec.075 * IDEAS * a discussion with JOE
HADZIMA '73 in our tech start-up class ec.075 at 7pm
in 4-402 * cases reviewed include dial-a-fish (acq'd
as stylus engineering) plus others ***
tue24feb: (tba) ***
tue17feb: today, tuesday, is yesterday's (monday's)
sched-of-classes, thus, and alas, no e-club and no
seminar * suggested readings this week include the
current issue of the kauffman foundation's _thoughtbook
2015_ * see the mit-stellar course ec.075 pages for
details and more * have a kerberos identity and mit
certificates for access ***
tue10feb: NO regular, weekly, tuesday meeting today
due to snow - the institvte is closed - and NO seminar
ec.075 - classes cancelled *** <- and right-o, these
might be flakes -> ***
tue03feb: OPEN FORMAT meeting today at 6pm in 56-114 *
bring your ideas and project updates to present and help
critique others' talks * we discourage pp favoring rather
off-the-top! chalk-and-talk style! at the blackboard *
your meeting moderator today is SASHA SHYDUROFF (G) course-11
plus other regular e-club-core members as-available *
nb: no formal office-hours today ***
nb: to schedule your tuesday 6pm presentation in 56-114 contact
e-club officers: president THOMAS DELGADO '15, co-treasurers
SASHA SHYDUROFF (G) and or former pres JOSH SIEGEL '10,'11 (now G)
and or club & seminar factotum TOBY SHYDUROFF at e-club-officers
at mit dot edu * be an mit, harvard and or wellesley student,
faculty, staff and or alum! * thanks! ***
tue03feb: pending so-called aftermath of wx conditions
we resume regular, weekly, tuesday meetings tomorrow, tue03feb
in room 56-114 at 6pm-onward * the first class meeting
of our tech start-up seminar ec.075 is also tomorrow, tuesday,
at 7pm up in 4-402, doc edgerton's old classroom * a note above
next about our seminars * you can always read about them elsewhere
on these pages or better, look over all the great class & seminar
offerings on the academic pages of edgerton.mit.edu ***
side-bar: has participating in our joint e-club and seminars
ec.074/ec.075 legal clinics for tech start-ups with
joe hadzima whetted your appetite for more? on-behalf-of
sloan sr lecturer JOHN AKULA, re 15.618 - Law & Technology
Entrepreneurship * John Akula, Senior Lecturer in Law *
mondays 4pm-7pm in e62-233 * first class meeting mon09feb *
nb: p/d/f is an option * sloan bidding proc NOT req'd! *
no class size limit - all welcome! * details beyond
syllabus at: jakula.scripts.mit.edu ***
brief archive of iap'15 appears below ...
the e-club goes on its own month-long field trip
right on the mit campus to enjoy the fabulous offerings
of others during IAP * check out web.mit.edu/iap for
courses, activities, workshops and a wide variety of
resources many of which are invaluable to students
and alums even just thinking about starting-up new
science, engineering & technology companies * a few
select suggestions & reminders, plus additional thots
on iap here here as iap moves right along ***
reminder - 2 sessions remain this week of joe hadzima's
nuts & bolts of innovation & business plans * details at
the course (3-credits) site nutsandbolts.mit.edu * joe's
been offering the nuts & bolts series for 26years, in
parallel with the venerable mit 100k competition, since
we founded it as the 10k, way-back-when * with alum joost
bonsen and a variety of tas ***
archives of fall-term-'14 appear below ...
welcome to fall term '14 - we meet this term back in
small lecture hall 56-114 at 6pm; our 6-credit tech seminar
EC.074 meets at 7pm up in room 4-402, right after e-club.
as always, and for 26 & 21 years both club & seminar
meet on tuesdays * join us! ***
tue09dec: joint END-of-TERM DINNER with our tech start-up
seminar EC.074 students - 7pm in 4-402 *** at 6pm in 56-114
e-club special returning case REX COMPUTING with founder
and thiel fellow THOMAS SOHMERS and co-founder e-club
advisor KURT KEVILLE of the mit-isn and founder of the
mit soldier design competition * expect a critical
discussion of the thiel programme *** also, ATUL SINGH,
founder of the online international journal FAIR OBSERVER,
for which some of us serve as advisors * welcome back
thomas and atul! *** our end-of-term TAKE-a-STUDENT-to-DINNER
is cheap! at $10-per-mouth * bring your check books or
cash and be an mit spin-off company or alum or both but
be in-good-standing with the e-club * you know what this
means * no exceptions! ***
tue02dec: our LEGAL CLINIC PART-2 w/JOE HADZIMA '73 *
see entry of tue18nov for details ***
tue25nov: our joint occasional DRAMATIC ARTS WORKSHOP for
tech start-up founders & presenters with alum advisor
MARK HESSLER '87 (physics & writing); ms/harvard ed school;
more * in seminar ec.074 at 7pm in 4-402 ***
tue18nov: our joint occasional LEGAL CLINIC for tech
start-ups with alum JOE HADZIMA '73 (course-11;sloan-mba;
jd-harvard-law;more) at 7pm in 4-402 with seminar ec.074 *
for tech start-ups as-practiced at the institvte and
under u.s. law * details forthcoming ***
tue11nov: HOLIDAY! NO office-hours, NO e-club meeting,
and NO seminar class today in honor of veterans' day ***
tue04nov: review of mit taking first prize at the
singapore-based robot-x competition by e-club advisor & competition
entrant v. alex brennen, with commentary by e-club advisor-
consultant capt kurt keville, usma, course-6, esd, founder
of the mit-isn soldier design competition & more; review
of e-club past president josh siegel '11 & phd candidate
(all-course-2) founder of CarKnow, llc, $25k winner of the
mass challenge '14 MASS-IT prize & more ***
tue28oct: OPEN/DEMO meeting for 5 visiting chilean students
representing 3 tech start-ups in the mit-sloan-latin-america
AJI CHALLENGE * welcome them and bring your new or ongoing
cases * help generate feedback & crits * 6pm in club in 56-114 *
more in seminar ec.074 at 7pm in 4-402 * details & more soon ***
tue21oct: come bring your ongoing & new tech start-up
cases to briefly present to visiting alum, professor dr.
JEAN-JACQUES DEGROOF, phd, a belgium-based finance &
technology educator & investor visiting mit this week as
he researches history, cases, founders and original source
material for his new book on entrepreneurship, as-practiced
at the institvte * read
mit.academia.edu/JeanJacquesDegroof * and his profile
on linked-in * stay at 7pm for more as we have him also in
seminar ec.074 for the evening and plan to learn more about
his project while we introduce our students and their own
start-up cases & research * 7pm in 4-402 ***
tue14oct: OPEN meeting today! send your case abstract
and remember, NO IP! plus brief bio-sketch to e-club-officers
at mit dot edu * be mit, harvard and or wellesley * don't
plan to present anything mlm, stealth wax or pet rocks ***
tue07oct: case update MBadika! with founder and club
president NETIA McCRAY '14 * Mbadika is an mit spin-off
nfp/ngo/edu-technologies start-up focussing on africa *
we'll be joined today by former club president and co-
founder of mit's course-zero automation (with former
club president Josh Seigel '11,'13 & currently a phd
candidate (all course-2) Ted Blackman '10 (course-8)
and club alum advisor Cody Daniel '11 (course-2),
master chief engineer at 3Scan, where ted designs and
develops software * 6pm-onward in 56-114 * with ongoing
luck josh will also join us for this mini-reunion and
i hope all will also join us in our tech start-up seminar
ec.074 at 7pm in 4-402 ***
tue30sep: case update BOUNCE IMAGING with founder
FRANCISCO AGUILAR, sloan & hks '12, harvard '05 *
bounce is 3D imaging for first responders & otr leos
and mil-spec * affordable, throwable 3d cameras &
sensors * case reading: bounceimaging.com ***
tue23sep: was an e-club OPEN format meeting with
a couple of 2nd year hbs student visitors, plus an intro
of her work in advising & investing-in tech start-ups with
princeton & sloan alum NINA LYTTON * in seminar ec.074
we had surprise visits from the media lab's senior
scientist dr HENRY LIEBERMAN, phd, course-6 & mit-esg
alum, and most recently of the media lab CHRIS `FRY' FRY,
a senior software developer and computer language inventor
and developer * NINA LYTTON also joined us ***
tue16sep: our newest start-up case! TESTIFIABLE.com, 6pm in 56-114 with
alum founders CARA MAE CIRIGNANO (wellesley,mit,yale) & JASON
ABALUCK (harvard,mit,yale) looking for critical feedback, a
cto-co-founder, and a web developer plus possible otr new hires *
in-depth follow-on in seminar ec.074 at 7pm in 4-402 ***
tue09sep: cases being presented today in our start-of-
fall-term's OPEN format meeting include columbia & harvard
alumna GALIT SCHWARTZ, founder of a new and unique combined
coffee house & start-up work space to be designed & operated
by physically & developmentally challenged user-clients in
the boston area * potential sites include brookline, newton
and cambridge *** also, KURT KEVILLE of mit's isn, and the
director of special projects there, drops by to brief us
on this year's 11th annual soldier design competition ***
mit e-club-core & members will conduct a long moment of
silence for e-club member & founder of the hope elephant
project, our large animal vet in maine, best friend &
good neighbor dr. JIM LAURITA, dvm, who was this morning
found dead in rosie & opal's elephant barn, apparently
of a fall against a concrete walkway surrounding the
heated sand therapy area * further than this we know not *
read the projects' pages at hopeelephants.org and on
the org's fb pages * this has left us speechless ***
to schedule your presentation contact e-club officers:
pres NETIA McCRAY '13, co-treasurer & officer-at-large THOMAS
DELGADO '15, and or former pres JOSH SIEGEL '10,'11 (and now G)
at e-club-officers at mit dot edu *** be an mit, harvard or
wellesley student, faculty, staff and or alum! *** thanks! ***
archives of spring term 14 appear below ...
tue13may14: members of the mit, harvard & wellesley
communities welcome to our end-of-term take-a-student-to-dinner
final session of the year * hear, crit, meet & dine with our
tech start-up seminar's final case discussions with tatiana
smirnova (st petersburg, skolkova & mit) founder of
brainselecta.com and andy yen (caltech, harvard, cern & mit)
founder of protonmail.ch * 7pm-onward in 4-402 * e-club 6pm
case in 56-154 tbd * rsvp tue06may14: alum JEREMY SHER '99, currently a harvard
divinity school candidate and e-club advisor,mentor today
presents his start-up, a combined communities `third place -
maker space 6 days a
week with a building open all week including a cafe (which
has worked well for the isbcc mosque in boston) where people
could come with laptops or just to hang out plus a wood shop to
make ritual objects and personal projects and a bike repair
station * the goal is to make the space busy and fun * services
would be open to all and religious education would disrupt
currently held assumptions about what sunday school needs to be'
6pm-onward in 56-154 ***
tue29apr: CarKnow case update! with founder alum
JOSH SIEGEL '11,'13, phd candidate in course-2, co-founder
course-zero automation, former e-club president * 6pm in 56-154 *
followed at 7pm in 4-402 by our occasional joint e-club & seminar
LEGAL CLINIC FOR TECH START-UPS, with mit sr. lecturer
JOE HADZIMA '73, also of H-law, sloan, more * of-counsel at
the boston firm sullivan & worcester, founder of main street
partners, i.p. vision, and more * if a large enough turnout
we'll stay in 56-154 * case sched updates here as presenters
respond to open meeting rfp ***
tue22apr: no regular e-club and no seminar class today *
mit holiday - no classes * have fun and be safe everyone! ***
tue15apr: new edu start-up case with founder CHRISTIAN
PECAUT in club and in seminar this evening * pecaut is a
stanford alum, former p.h.s. teacher in philly, and starting
in fall a masters candidate at u-chicago * welcome christian ***
tue08apr: e-club OPEN meeting this evening; seminar ec.075
to-be-re-scheduled ***
tue01apr: case update with course-6 alum STEVE SHOAP *
a digital control system of hoses and valves for remotely,
safely fighting wildfires * demo video at bit.ly/14J3s2g *
come hear, meet & crit steve at 6pm-onward in 56-154 *
nb: steve's previous presentation bits awarded patents ***
tue25mch: no meetings, seminars or office-hours this week *
have fun, productive + safe so-called spring-breaks everyone! ***
tue18mch: [missing report re andy yen (harvard physics phd
candidate and x-reg'd student in our tech start-up seminar
ec.075) on his & co-founders' start-up PROTONMAIL.ch - (also
a semi-finalist entry in the current mit 100k competition) -
go-to protonmail.ch to register as a beta-tester level user *
this new secure swiss-based e-mail service goes live ~14april ***
tue11mch: new case! geosocial.io, with co-founder CATHY CAO
'13 (course-15) * come hear & meet cathy and share your beta-user
feedback on this mit service, a potentially very-large-scale
`societal utility' - GEOSOCIAL.IO - a new mit real-time, web-
based, event-locator, mapping & comment service that `aims to
fill the "societal information gap" in the world' * we'll
meet co-founder RAFAEL MENDIOLA (course-6) on another tue,
date tbd ***
tue04mch: welcome sloan senior lecturer STEVE SPEAR who will
bring us 3 new start-up cases in-search-of student collaborators
& co-founders * concepts include a see-to-solve real-time alert
system; easing warrior re-entry; and social media marketing
for the little guy * 6pm-onward in 56-154 ***
[february spring-term tuesday reports missing here]
fall-term'13 archives include:
fri06dec: go hear & meet alum JIM HAMILTON in d.c. TODAY!
at the policy studies organisation's annual DUPONT SUMMIT;
pdf of jim's abstract at: http://bit.ly/IHBVZO
[some tuesday reports missing here]
sun17nov: e-club new start-up case founder alum JIM HAMILTON's
National Spent (nuclear) Fuel Collaborative launches $250k
fundraising campaign via e-club regulars, core, advisors &
friends club lists this morning * see http://spentfuel.org
for mission statement, backgrounders, who's-who & latest
news & support, and how to donate! ***
tue05nov: INDIEGOGO! an indiegogo workshop session in
e-club with Bre DiGiammarino * 6pm in 56-114 * includes pizza
dinner & refreshments * `revealing the secrets to successful
crowdfunding; learn how to set up your campaign, grow your
network of supporters and bring in support to build your
product, launch your business, while getting the most out
of the indiegogo platform' ***
tue29oct: special session on managing in diversity with
e-club president Netia McCray '12 (course-17) founder of
Mbadika.org - tonight's case update - 6pm-onward in 56-114 ***
tue22oct: OPEN meeting today! bring your sci, eng, tech
start-up ideas & updates and help demo the e-club for
visiting JOHN HAYDEN, founder, toronto's n100 $100k tech
start-up competition * see n100.ca * 6pm in 56-114 ***
sun20oct: SEAN COLLIER FUND T-SHIRT SALES! at the e-club
table at the final MIT FLEA/SWAPFEST of the season! starts
in just a few hours - open 9am-to-2pm - bring your checkbooks!
make checks payable to `THE SEAN COLLIER FUND' * plus
e-club & seminar office-hours 6am-2pm * plus bern dibner
titles! new, out-of-print, on the history of science,
engineering & technology, plus our own art & craft * book,
art & craft sales benefit the activities of the e-club ***
tue15oct: mit holiday - sleep just a bit more, maybe ***
tue08oct: course-2 alum FREDERICK MOORE '13
returned to expand on his intro last week of work he and
partner course-2 JEREMY deGUZMAN '14 have been doing in 3D
prototyping for the future manufacturing of rare, sometimes-
impossible-to-find antique motorcycle parts * a name for
this new enterprise has yet to be chosen * 6pm-onward
in 56-114; no office-hours & no formal sem ec.074 this
evening * new sci, eng & tech start-up project briefings
invited at all e-club case presentation sessions - just show up!
first pref for mit students, then faculty, staff & alums;
others not harvard or wellesley by pre-filter & invite ***
tue01oct ... FREDERICK MOORE '13 at 6pm * in seminar at 7pm
alum JIM HAMILTON, tpp, founder of SPENTFUEL.ORG, a nfp
research & education policy foundation the mission of which
is to increase the probability of doing something with
this country's spent nuclear fuel * this is a policy start-up
challenge, not a technology project ***
tue24sep: e-club & seminar go on a field trip over
to KEN ZOLOT's class (founder's journey 6.933) in 32-123
qt 7pm to hear & meet EBEN UPTON, creator of RaspberryPi ***
tue17sep ...
tue10sep: e-club OPEN meeting with several new people
& new projects! ***
fall-term'13 bits, notes & updates follow:
e-club office-hours, club start-up presentations, feedback
& crit sessions & discussions return on tue10sep at 5 & 6pm in
56-114, and our 6-credit tech start-up seminar EC.074 at 7pm
up in doc edgerton's old classroom at the edgerton center
room 4-402 * an updated listing of returning & new, incoming
student officers & alum advisors plus new incoming & returning
student & alum cases to-be-posted here over the next couple
of weeks, plus many new readings! * for seminar details see
course EC.074 on the reg's pages and on the edgerton center
courses page * looking forward! ***
news from summer-session '13 ...
tue20aug: the mit e-club & our seminars are on-break!
NO e-club office-hours, NO regular tuesday session & NO
seminar today-thru-reg-day-tue03sep! ... a safe & sane
balance of summer everyone! *** be seeing you all on
tue10sep! ***
tue13aug: summer-session'13 is, alas, completed and our
28 visting singaporean u/g engineering students have returned
to sg and their home base, s.u.t.d. campus for start of their
own new term ***
[review of our final summer-session presentations and
discussions of tue06aug with e-club sloan student members
incoming & returning, plus a sloan fellow member, plus parting
words from our sutd students go here] ***
on tue30jul the e-club started on the early side at 5:30pm
in 16-160 with a special session new case start-up presented
by alum JEREMY SHER '99 (see more below under tue16th) on
another of his current efforts: an online gay dating site
in-part-response-to the perceived failures of all else
available to this particular market cohort ***
at 6:30pm we heard from sutd students discussing their
views on their experiences at mit this summer and on what
they've learned about creating tech start-ups since they've
been with us for 7 weeks ***
at 7pm-9pm our guest presenter was alum JONATHAN NAIMON '83,
(course-17-a, physical-biology) founder & president of LIGHT
GREEN ADVISORS - see: lightgreen.com ... (more as tuesday
nears) plus, we may also enjoy a surprise visit from a
quite interesting if hard-to-sched mit alumna (tba)a who
served as assistant director of the mit t.l.o. for many
years and who is a world-class expert in i.p.,
patents & licensing and the funding of mit start-ups ***
the e-club & seminar took a break on tue23jul to afford our
28 visting sutd students some >4pm overtime in the lab & shop
with mit-sutd instructor course-2's charles guan ***
on tue16jul we hosted alum MARK HESSLER '87, physics & creative
writing (21-a) and harvard school of education '89, conducting
his always exciting occasional e-club theater arts & stage craft
workshop for improving presentation & demo skills, followed by
alum JEREMY SHER '99 (currently a harvard divinity school
candidate & serving as the resident advisor at mit's PIKA
independent living group) presenting his views on ethics,
conflict & dispute resolution for tech start-ups ***
previously on tue09jul in club & seminar we enjoyed
updates from former club president JOSH SIEGEL '11,'13 & '16
(phd expected) co-founder of course zero automation, cloudcar,
carknow, and more * see www.mit.edu/~j_siegel * and DAVID EPSTEIN,
bard college of simons rock, founder & former pres of javanet,
rcn-internet, ceo connecticut telephone, broadvoice, hartford
car & driver, free conference pro, and epstein associates,ig *
see www.linkedin.com/in/daveeppy ***
on tue02jul13 in club our sutd students & mit regulars welcomed
mit's DAVID SHRIER for his talk & discussion: "Stranger in a
Strange Land: Corporate Entrepreneurship" & a pilot financials
clinic *** on tue25jun we enjoyed new e-club case BIO-BEHAVIORAL
DIAGNOSTICS, with co-founder dr NIKOS FOURLIGAS, phd, of tufts
university & mclean hospital; later in seminar we enjoyed JOE
HADZIMA '73 leading our occasional TECH START-UP LEGAL CLINIC ***
our ongoing 8 week summer-session this year is devoted to
hosting 28 visiting singaporean undergrad engineering students from
the singapore university of technology & design - the s.u.t.d. -
first e-club introductory case session meets tue 18 jun at
6pm in 16-160; a non-credit version of our tech start-up
seminars meets immediately after at 7pm-9pm in 56-114;
all members of the mit, harvard, sutd & wellesley communities
welcome to all sessions! ***
recently -> wed12jun - the e-club hosted the annual n.e. avios
chapter meeting & talk with alum dr. DARYUSH MEHTA, phd: TOWARD
THE DETECTION OF VOICE DISORDERS USING A SMARTPHONE PLATFORM *
details at events.mit.edu * early-bird f2f chat & networking
5-6:30pm, talk & discussion 6:30p–8:30p in 3-333 * co-organised
with e-club advisor & alum nancy gardner, msvs'81, senior
vui-designer, more ...
at graduation mit welcomed alum DREW HOUSTON '05, this year's
commencement speaker! drew was active in the club and seminar,
and went on to found dropbox * search terms for more and read
http://ow.ly/lLYCv ***
recent news - 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 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 new summer project
NEW! 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!
summer office-hours, 5-6pm & club meeting, 6-7pm happen in room
16-160; tech startup seminar, 7-9pm back in small lecture hall
56-114 ***
regular, weekly, tuesday meetings any-term start at 6pm *
default location 56-114 * 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 NETIA McCRAY '13, co-treas & officers-at-large THOMAS
DELGADO '15 and or former pres JOSH SIEGEL '10,'11 (and now G)
at e-club-officers at mit dot edu ***
readings for any term tech start-up seminar (6-credit
EC.074 & EC.075) always begin with _THE ATLANTIC CABLE_
by BERN DIBNER * all articles, columns & papers on tech
start-ups & related topics by our faculty advisor senior
lecturer JOE HADZIMA '73 at joe.hadzima.net * much more
on joe's nutsandbolts.mit.edu site *
LOUIS BRANDEIS' OTHER PEOPLES' MONEY (1914) * the mit alum class
news section of every issue of TECHNOLOGY REVIEW for leads to
many newly founded mit start-ups * there's no required textbook,
but we do a metric ton of reading! *** see you in class! ***
one special new non-profit education & research start-up case
last year and ongoing: THE HOPE ELEPHANT PROJECT in the town of
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 our elephants ROSIE and OPAL!
during any of our e-club rural retreat working weekends at
rockport harbor or brooks village and we'll visit these two
of our first adoptees! ***
to sched summer-session additional office-hours contact
e-club-officers at mit dot edu *** you may also find us at
THE MIT FLEA (3rd sunday, 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 ***
send comments, suggestions & crits to rdshydur at mit dot edu ***
our spring 6-credit seminar EC.075 (formerly sem.095)
now in its 23nd year, is currently offered under the
auspices of mit's edgerton center's academics as
Starting Up New Technology-Based Business Enterprises
at MIT * (2-0-4) (p/d/f) Tuesdays at 7-9p in 4-402 with
our faculty advisor senior lecturer JOE HADZIMA, and myself,
e-club co-fndr & co-dir RICHARD SHYDUROFF, an affiliate
instructor at the edgerton center; read more and about all
edgerton center courses & seminars at
http://edgerton.mit.edu/academics *
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'14 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 agf 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
nearly-daily-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! like we recently re-launched seminar ec.075's stellar
course site pages and are slowly building-it-out with more
current and historical suggested materials for reading and
research and participation * see:
stellar.mit.edu/S/course/EC/sp15/EC.075/ ***
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