AMITA Women Mentoring and Networking
AMITA, Association of MIT Alumnae
| Jan/30 | Mon | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 10-105 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
The Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) invites undergraduate and graduate students to an informal night of networking with MIT alumnae in the Bush Room (10-105). 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
Child Protection Planning: 10 Things Every Parent Should Know
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/26 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 32-144 |
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
Child Protection Planning: 10 Things Every Young Parent Should Know
Brian Mahoney, Esq., Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/10 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 32-144 |
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.
Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98, 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, Principal, White Knight Consulting
| Feb/01 | Wed | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 32-155 |
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, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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/18 | Wed | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 32-144 |
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: Technology, Social Norm, and Policy
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Energy Transition Partners
| Feb/02 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E62-223 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Cybersecurity continues a shift from Tolerance and Survivability tools towards Moving Target Defenses, but is this shift sufficient to create true cybersecurity? As the number of malware attacks, cost and time-to-fix continue to escalate it is clear that cyber-attack advances outpace current Social Norms and policies. Increasing impacts on the U.S. and U.S. corporations underscore several Cybersecurity Myths. Cyber-defense strategy requires new Social Norms, similar to the European’s approach for the Plague, Slavery and Piracy for a global deterrence to today’s Malware, Botnets and Espionage. Should security move beyond compliance, monitoring and industry partnership-sharing of threat information? Can cyber policies address today’s challenges of misaligned incentives, information asymmetries and externalities? Is this simply a technology discussion?
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Engineering Communication with GD&T
Tom Kinnare '86
| Jan/18 | Wed | 07:00PM-10:00PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is an important language for controlling part shape and fit. It is widely used in many industries, but many engineering graduates are not exposed to it. This three hour session will briefly introduce the ASME Y14.5 spec that defines GD&T for American usage. We will touch on datums, unstated rules, and the main categories of tolerance. Special attention will be paid to flatness and true position to illustrate general principles. Additional sources for more information will be recommended.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Financial Planning 101
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/26 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 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 2017, 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
Financial Planning 101
Mark Porter '05
| Jan/10 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 1-190 |
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 2017, 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
Future Trainwreck: Mine or Modern Physics
Douglas Sweetser '84
| Jan/26 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Disaster is more interesting than success. I will limit myself to an hour of tales of research failures. Modern physics as more than 42 inverse femtobarns of data from the LHC saying all the work on super symmetry has no value, none, zero. My current research rejects using tensors for any calculations in physics. In its place is a more careful consideration of numbers for space-time events that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. The physics is found by using equivalence classes for pairs of observers. If the square of the difference between two events as seen by a pair of observers is the same, that is the equivalence class of inertial observers which is at the core of special relativity. If the three space-times-times are the same for a pair of observers, that leads to an equivalence class of non-inertial observers. The space-times-time equivalence class is the basis of my new proposal for gravity. There is no graviton in my proposal. The great hunt for quantum gravity would be over. For those that last until the end, a poll will be conducted to gauge if the audience thinks my current research is headed for a flameout, or a huge shift for physics is in store. One random person will win with a free t-shirt. Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Greetings from Cambridge
Greg Batcheler, Assistant Director, Academic Departments, Alumni Association
| Jan/11 | Wed | 11:00AM-02:00PM | 10-105 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
If you’re on campus this winter, grab a snack and send a postcard to family, friends, or classmates! We’ll drop them in the mail courtesy of the MIT Alumni Association.
We'll have hot chocolate, apple cider, cookies, and fruit, as well as postcards and pens for you to write a note to friends.
Free and open to the MIT community -- families are welcome!
Please bring your MIT ID.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Introduction to Credit Analysis and Equity Valuation
Jonathan Piskorowski SM '07, Andrew Henwood SM '07
| Feb/02 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E62-262 |
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.
Instructors: Andrew Henwood SM '07 and Jonathan Piskorowski SM '07
1:00 – 2:00 pm. Introduction to Corp. Credit Analysis
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Introduction to Equity valuation
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Robotics and Innovation Co-working Spaces
Fady Saad SM '13, Co-founder and Director of Partnerships, MassRobotics
| Jan/17 | Tue | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Alumnus Fady Saad SM '13 will speak about his journey from North Africa and Europe working in Fortune 500 companies to MIT, startups, robotics, and finally MassRobotics located here in Cambridge. Other topics include Fady's research, his theory on startups lifecycle, and the rise of new forms of innovation spaces.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
The Entrepreneur's Market For Inventions
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, Rob Aronoff, SM '90
| Feb/03 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E62-223 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Product Innovation and invention surges ahead at rates unimaginable just a few decades ago. With good reason inventors protect their intellectual property (IP) internationally with a variety of tools - patents, copyright, and trademarks. But how should an inventor monetize the invention? Form and build a startup? Sell the invention? License it?
The speakers will examine the basics of patents, copyright, and trademark and consider monetization – entrepreneurship by building a startup, outright sale, and out-licensing – as well as factors and recent trends affecting patent valuation. The presentation is based on decades of VP, Director, and entrepreneurial experience in product development and intellectual property at Intellectual Ventures, Oracle, Alcatel, Texas Instruments, Kodak, Sun Microsystems, private law firms, and startups.
Leading the discussion:
Everardo Ruiz, SM ’00 Ph.D. (Managing Director, Energy Transition Partners)
Rob Aronoff, SM ’90 (Managing Director, Pluritas)
Sanjay Prasad, J.D. (Managing Director, Prasad IP)
Register for this free event.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
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