IAP 2016 Activities by Sponsor - Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP

Jo Ivester '77

Jan/12

Tue

05:45PM-07:15PM

3-133

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 50 participants

 The 1960s South was a time of turmoil, change, and struggle for equality.

In 1967, when MIT alum Jo Ivester ('77) was ten years old, her family moved from Boston to a small, all-black town in the Mississippi Delta, where her father ran a clinic, her mother taught at the local high school, and Jo was the only white student at her junior high.

Simply by being there - one of only two white families and the only Jews - they had a unique, front-row view of racism in America and were pulled into the heart of the civil rights movement.

In this half-hour talk, Jo will share anecdotes and perform readings from her new book, The Outskirts of Hope, which chronicles her family's experience.

She writes, "My story presents a moment in our history. Unfortunately, racial relations today are still an issue and we all have to do our part to make a difference."

To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=823

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

Dick Schulze '67

Jan/13

Wed

05:45PM-07:15PM

5-217

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 35 participants

UPOP mentor and MIT alum, Dick Schulze will give a one-hour presentation on the "Fair Use" doctrine in copyright and trademark law.

When is it fair to copy someone else's work, and when can you be hauled into court for doing it? This will be a humorous but also very serious look at new and old laws and court cases on parody in song, selling someone else's books, saying someone else's business sucks, and more.

 Questions from the audience are encouraged.

To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=822

 

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

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

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