10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/25 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
10 Things Every Young Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Brian Mahoney, Esq., Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 32-144 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98, 617-252-1143, ebyrne@mit.edu
AMITA Women Networking and Mentoring
AMITA, Association of MIT Alumnae
| Jan/27 | Wed | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 32-401 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 100 participants
The Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) invites undergraduate and graduate students to an informal night of networking with MIT alumnae in the R&D Commons Area 4th floor of building 32. We'll talk about life choices and share our experiences in selecting grad schools and integrating family life and career. Pizza will be provided. Please pre-register* so we'll have enough food. Student registration is FREE.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Cocktails 201: Rum, Ron, Rhum
Jared Sadoian '10
| Jan/25 | Mon | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 500A Commonwealth Av |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: Participants must be 21 or older by 01/25/16 w/ a valid ID
Fee: $65.00
for supplies
More than nearly any other spirit category, rum has grown explosively over the past decade. Not only does it represent a great value compared to Scotch, Brandy, and American whiskey, Rum also is one of the only spirits that can cater to a wide audience of spirits enthusiasts and cocktail-centric bartenders alike. This seminar will cover the history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its spread throughout the world, and include a flight of rums demonstrating the variety of styles and flavors in this fantastically delicious spirit.
This seminar will be led by Jared Sadoian '10, Bar Manager at The Hawthorne and Rob Ficks, Head Bartender at Craigie on Main. The seminars will meet at The Hawthorne, a craft cocktail lounge located inside the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston's Kenmore Square.
Register today! Password "cocktails 201"
Other opportunties:
Cocktails 101: Section C -- from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, February 1 and 8. $150.00
2/1 Tequila $65
2/8 Vermouth $70
PSW: "cocktails 201"
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Creating a Successful Career--Strategies, Techniques, and the Big Mistakes You're Going to Make
Mark Herschberg 95, MNG 97, 05, CTO at Madison Logic
| Jan/27 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 4-270 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Upon graduating from MIT you will begin a career. MIT has provided you with countless facts and formulas to help you with your job, but what have you learned to help you with your career? This talk gives you structure to think through your career and help you maximize both your income and happiness. It will teach you how to answer questions such as: How do you know which job is right? Where will you be in 20 years? What to ask for in job negotiations? The talk also covers the common job mistakes and how to avoid them. Register today! Walk-ins welcome.
MARK HERSCHBERG Educated at MIT (with degrees in physics, EE/CS, and a masters in cryptography) Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 100s, and academia. Mark has worked at and consulted to number startups typically taking on roles in general management, operations, and technology. He has been involved from inception and fundraising through growth and sale of the company. These startup companies have included a wireless application platform, online advertising, OLAP, and new language development. Mark was instrumental in launching ServiceLive.com Sears online home services labor market; he also helped fix NBCs online video marketplace (now Hulu.com). In academia, he spent a year at HBS working with two finance professors to create the upTick system now used to teach finance at many of the top business schools and at MIT helped launched UPOP at which he's taught the past 15 years.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Customer Financing and Other Creative Ways to Fund Your New Venture
Sanjay Manandhar '89, SM '91, Founder & CEO Aerva, Inc
| Jan/06 | Wed | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
The most common method of financing is one of angel and institutional money from VC and PE firms. However, not all businesses are a fit for these types of funding sources. Roughly 1% of the companies attract any angel/VC—so what do other ventures do? How did ventures get off the ground before the 1950s when the VC industry started taking hold?
Customer-funding is an attractive, non-dilutive method of funding. There is, of course, the chicken-and-egg problem of not having products to sell to customers, but needing funding to create the products. There are many ways to handle this—I will share one method Aerva used to receive customer funding early on.
Typically first customers are much larger than your new venture—and it may seem inconceivable why a larger entity might want to work with a smaller entity or a startup. In fact, startups have a lot more leverage than their founders may realize. Therefore, one can negotiate a win-win scenario, which can help your financing situation.
Along the way, there are many traditional, non-VC funding sources one can tap into, in particular once positive revenue trends can be demonstrated. After break-even and positive cashflow, even more funding sources become available, from bank loans, to institutional capital, which may even start chasing you, rather than the other way around.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, COL. Robert Banks
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Cybersecurity continues a shift from Tolerance and Survivability tools towards Moving Target Defenses. The increasing rate of cyber-attacks and their impacts on U.S. Company’s underscore several Cybersecurity Myths. Cyber-defense strategy needs new Social Norms, similar to Europe’s approach for the Plague, Slavery and Piracy that globally deter today’s Malware, Botnets and Espionage. Should we move beyond compliance, monitoring and industry partnership of sharing threat information? Can cyber policies address today’s challenges of misaligned incentives, information asymmetries and externalities and what can businesses do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? As malware attack numbers and the cost and time-to-fix all explode, it’s clear that cyber-attack advances have outpaced Social Norms and current policy. The presentation is based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.
Everardo Ruiz SM '00 and COL. (Ret.) Robert Banks will lead this discussion.
Register for this free event.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Designing Addiction
Satayan Mahajan '96
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Have you ever wondered why some products succeed and others fail? How is Facebook able to get their average user to check their accounts 12 times a day? Why have Apple’s products been so wildly successful?
You may not realize it, but we’re all addicted. Many of the greatest product innovators have a deep intuition allowing them to build exactly what people want. Unfortunately, for the rest of us, it's often hit or miss. In this course, we’ll discuss a new framework and principles in product design and innovation focused on how to engage consumers and build truly addictive products.
We’ll use examples from real world products, but more importantly we encourage you to bring your own projects and ideas to work on.
Satayan Mahajan '96 is an American entrepreneur and inventor focusing on consumer centered products in the fields of video games, healthcare, and sports.
Register for this free event today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
FAILURE -- AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT TO BEING SUCCESSFUL IN SCHOOL, SCIENCE, AND STARTUPS
Amir Nashat ScD '02, Managing Partner, Polaris Partners
| Jan/12 | Tue | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Most MIT students have rarely, if ever, tasted intellectual failure before arriving on campus. MIT, for good reason, tries hard to soften the blow that every freshman goes through of suddenly being surrounded by the best students in the world and learning how to cope with failure.
This class addresses a fundamental paradox, if failure is so bad, why do virtually all major scientific discoveries and most successful startups begin with failure? We will review both well-known and not-so-well-known examples where failure was the prerequisite for success, with the aim of crafting a set of personalized rules that can help us have fun, succeed and make a big impact at MIT and in our lives after graduation.
Amir Nashat, ScD. Course 10, '02. Educated as an engineer at Berkeley and MIT, Amir has spent his time since school helping entrepreneurs start great companies, and, along the way, starting a few himself. Amir is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, a leading venture capital firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco and Dublin. He has spent most of his career working in biotechnology, being fortunate to meet great entrepreneurs and have the opportunity to invest in a number of important companies and medicines that can make a huge impact on patients' lives. Amir has also led the startup phase of three MIT-based startups (Living Proof, Pervasis and Sun Catalytix), ranging from personal care to medicine to energy fields.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Introduction to Credit Analysis and Equity Valuation
Andrew Henwood MBA'07, Jonathan Piskorowski SM '07
| Jan/27 | Wed | 12:00PM-03:00PM | E62-221 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Credit Analysis
The corporate bond markets are a key financing markets for a variety of companies. The first part of this seminar will introduce students to various corporate credit markets and to cover key concepts in credit analysis including the role the ratings agencies and typical financial ratios employed in order to determine the credit risk of a company. The primary focus will be the Investment Grade (IG) bond market. Several examples on how bonds are priced will be provided, and why an IG rating is desirable for a company today will be explained. If time permits, a further overview of other key bond markets (Government, Structured) will be covered.
Equity Valuation
You may be familiar with DCF analysis, but other approaches, such as multiple analysis, net asset value and sum-of-the parts valuation, are important techniques in providing a broader measure of equity valuation. An effort will be made to include several real world examples of how investment professionals value equities in the Energy and Financial sectors.
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Introduction to Credit Analysis
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Introduction to Equity Valuation
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Patent and Licensing Fundamentals
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Energy Transition Partners
| Jan/26 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:00AM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Are patents still valuable? What happened to Rockstar, Spherix, Apple and Samsung, Google/Motorola, Microsoft, and AOL? Inventions are now bought and sold worldwide as businesses, institutes, agencies, and inventors seek to monetize their intellectual property, frequently through the sale or litigation of patents. This seminar provides a brief overview of technology intellectual property - the concepts of copyright, trade secret, and patents - and then review the patent marketplace from several perspectives, discussing high-tech / IT patent strategy along with several patent valuation approaches including key economic and legal factors. The seminar will incorporate perspectives gained from 40+ years of patent investing, venture capital, startups, litigation, and licensing.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Personal Finance 101
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/25 | Mon | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
MIT has done a great job teaching students how to earn money. Unfortunately, no one teaches students what to do with it when they get it!
This hour-long seminar will offer the basics of a financial-planning approach. It will cover definitions and best practices regarding:
• Cash reserves
• Liability management
• Tax planning
• Insurance planning
• Savings vehicles
• Investments
The class will be most useful for those already working or graduating in 2016, but all are welcome.
Taught by Mark Porter ’05, certified financial planner.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Personal Finance: 101
Mark Porter '05
| Jan/20 | Wed | 06:30PM-07:30PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
MIT has done a great job teaching students how to earn money. Unfortunately, no one teaches students what to do with it when they get it!
This hour-long seminar will offer the basics of a financial-planning approach. It will cover definitions and best practices regarding:
• Cash reserves
• Liability management
• Tax planning
• Insurance planning
• Savings vehicles
• Investments
The class will be most useful for those already working or graduating in 2016, but all are welcome.
Taught by Mark Porter, CFP® Class of 2005.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98, 617-252-1143, ebyrne@mit.edu
Quaternion Gravity: Theory and Experiment
Douglas Sweetser '84
| Jan/21 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 54-100 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
A new proposal for explaining gravity will be detailed (the URLs below). A prediction we will try to confirm is that measuring the Poynting vector (ExB) in the Green building should be the same in 54-100 as near the top.
http://bit.ly/qg_sketch
http://bit.ly/vp-qg
http://bit.ly/vp-qg_talk
http://bit.ly/qg_paper
http://quaternions.com
Doug Sweetser '84
Course 7 and Course 10
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Responding to Terrorism with Courage and Compassion: Examining One Family's Transformative Journey
David Brancazio '89, SM '91
| Jan/21 | Thu | 06:30PM-08:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
In Our Son's Name is an intimate portrait of Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez, whose son, Greg, dies with thousands of others in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The bereaved parents choose reconciliation and nonviolence over vengeance and begin a transformative journey that both confirms and challenges their convictions.
They speak out against war in Iraq and Afghanistan, publicly oppose the death penalty of avowed 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and befriend his mother. As their search for meaning evolves they speak out against anti-Muslim actions and find peace in working with prison inmates.
Their marriage strengthens, and they reach a deeper understanding of their rebellious son, who had just begun to find his way when his life was cut short. The film mixes in-depth interviews with on-location footage and striking archival photographs and video to create a deeply personal story that invites us to re-consider conventional concepts of justice and healing.
A discussion will follow the screening of this one-hour documentary film.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Unleash Your Inner Company Part I (Intro & Overview)
John Chisholm '75
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:45PM-07:15PM | E25-111 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 150 participants
Based on John Chisholm's book, this fast-paced, 90-minute workshop offers a ten-step process for discovering, testing, selecting, launching, and scaling the right business for you.
Where to start? What hasn't already been done? How to build confidence to take the plunge? Need a co-founder? How to choose one? How/when to raise money? How to scale your business? Is starting a for-profit business as ethical as starting a non-profit? The workshop will answer these questions and more.
Learn how to:
- Discover dozens of unsatisfied customer needs in areas you are passionate about
- Recognize advantages for satisfying those needs
- Assess and strengthen the fit between you and customer needs; choose the best fit
- Overcome doubts and insecurities holding you back.
This workshop will help you to do what you love, create security for yourself, and make the world a better place.
John Chisholm '75, CEO of John Chisholm Ventures (www.johnchisholmventures.com) founded or co-founded three software companies in 25 years: Decisive Technology (now part of Google), the first company to automate surveys online; CustomerSat (now part of Confirmit), a leader in enterprise feedback management; and Pyze, a mobile intelligence startup. He is an MIT and Santa Fe Institute trustee; has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and invested in dozens of startups; and holds patents in online polling.
To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=814
See also http://bit.ly/235a3UY
Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP, Alumni Association
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU
Unleash Your Inner Company Part II (Q&A & 1:1s)
John Chisholm '75
| Jan/27 | Wed | 05:45PM-07:15PM | 32-141 Stata Center |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/27
For those who have read Unleash Your Inner Company and are currently contemplating, building, or running a startup, author/serial entrepreneur John Chisholm will be available for Q&A, discussion, and brief 1:1 consultations.
Unleash Your Inner Company (Greenleaf Book Group, October 2015), available on Amazon, MIT Coop, MIT Press Bookstore, and Barnes and Noble.
John Chisholm '75 ‘76G is CEO of John Chisholm Ventures (www.johnchisholmventures.com) and president and chair of the MIT Alumni Association. He has three decades of experience as entrepreneur, investor, and CEO. He founded or co-founded three software companies: Decisive Technology (now part of Google), the first company to automate online surveys; CustomerSat (now part of Confirmit), a leader in enterprise feedback management; and Pyze, a mobile intelligence startup. He is a trustee of MIT and of the Santa Fe Institute; has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and invested in dozens of startups; and holds patents in online polling.
To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=820
This workshop is Part II of a 2-part series. See also Part I at
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9289af8d5110156e0151171a5d1700a3.html
Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP, Alumni Association
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU
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