MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016



Napkins to Launch

Dazza Greenwood, Scientist

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

Integrated Business/Legal/Technical Rapid Prototyping for Entrepreneurial New Venture Ideas 

MIT Media Lab's Dazza Greenwood (Law.MIT.edu) and MIT Visiting Professor of Law Jonathan Askin (BLIP Clinic) are teaming up to offer an innovative project-based course at MIT this January for entrepreneurs and others with new venture ideas to learn and apply integrated business/legal/technical rapid prototyping skills for quick-start development of "back of the napkin" ideas.  The course is structured around sessions for project hacking and review/feedback and sessions for learning and skill-building focused on key business, legal, and technical issues, options, and opportunities for project success.

The course content also includes opportunties to work with Bitcoin and other Blockchain related technologies as the basis for potential new venture business models, legal structures, and technical solutions.  The course will provide opportunities for skill building and mentorship with experts from Consensus Systems for developer and end-user tools to build decentralized applications for blockchain ecosystems, focusing primarily on Ethereum.

The course is not limited to Bitcoin and Blockchain ventures.  If you have other venture ideas, feel free to participate.

For more information, see: https://law.mit.edu/NapkinsToLaunch

Contact: Dazza Greenwood, E15-384C, (617) 500-3644, dazza@civics.com


Napkins to Launch Alpha Phase

Jan/12 Tue 02:00PM-04:00PM E15-359

This is the first phrase of student project iteration from Napkins to Launch.

Jonathan Askin - Visiting Professor, Dazza Greenwood - Scientist


Napkins to Launch: Beta Phase

Jan/14 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM E15-359

Napkins to Launch student project second iteration and presentations.

Jonathan Askin - Visiting Professor, Dazza Greenwood - Scientist