Basics of Obtaining a Patent 2016
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/25 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4/162 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 100 participants
Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Business information for engineers and scientists
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries
| Jan/27 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 30 participants
This session will introduce engineers and scientists to business information resources that will help you understand the commercial potential for your ideas, how to find partners, and sources for financial support. We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace.
Please Register for this class.
If you're specifically interested in biotechnology, a companion session; Biotech business information for engineers and scientists will feature resources and examples that are geared for the life sciences business sector, offered January 20, 2016.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarmcreativity
Peter Gloor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
“I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” Isaac Newton - after having lost a substantial amount of money investing into the South Sea Bubble.
This 3-day course provides an in-depth tutorial to analyzing online social networks. It employs the easy-to-use but powerful software tool Condor that analyzes online social networks such as Twitter, Wikipedia, Blogs, Facebook, as well as e-mail. It gives the “big ideas” as well as step-by-step instructions. It explains how to use Condor to visualize, monitor and manage brands, products, and topics on the Internet, and to analyze organizations through their e-mail networks. It gives a wealth of practical examples of how to apply social network analysis for prediction of trends by combining Condor analysis with KNIME machine learning. It also illustrates how to improve organizational performance by optimizing collaboration using e-mail.
Goals:
learn how
- the radical innovation process in small teams works
- to find trendsetter and trends on the Internet and social media
- to predict trends using SNA und statistical forecasting techniques
- how to increase organizational efficiency and creativity through a virtual mirror created of organizational e-mail archives
This is a condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 10 years at MIT, Aalto/Helsinki, U. Cologne, SCAD, IIT. (http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2015/)
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Gloor, E94-1504D, 617 253 7018, pgloor@mit.edu
| Jan/13 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E51-057, bring your laptop |
The first part introduces the basics of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) - cyberteams of intrinsically motivated people who work together over the Internet to turn a crazy idea into a disruptive innovation that changes the world. It also introduces the basics of our dynamic semantic social network analysis tool Condor. If you want to play with Condor, we recommend to previously install it on your laptop.
Peter Gloor
| Jan/14 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E51-057, bring your laptop |
In this part we look at organizational and team-level networks by analyzing e-mail archives. Through six inter-personal variables of honest communication: 'strong leadership', 'rotating leaders', 'balanced contribution', 'fast response', 'honest sentiment' and 'shared language' that Condor calculates, we measure and optimize creative teams. We also learn the basics of Coolhunting, finding COINs on Twitter, Blogs, etc.
Peter Gloor
| Jan/15 | Fri | 02:00PM-05:00PM | E51-057, bring your laptop |
Using Condor, we analyze Twitter, Blogs, Wikipedia, and Facebook to find the attributes of a trend and the most influential people talking about it, and measure its impact though machine learning with KNIME. We also look how to promote these trends through Coolfarming - viral marketing on the Web, and how to create COINs inside organizations by boosting organizational consciousness through social quantum physics.
Peter Gloor
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
Day-Long Design Workshop for Budding Entrepreneurs
Carlos Cardenas, Suzanne Schechtman, Maria Yang, Felice Ling
| Jan/11 | Mon | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 36-153, CANCELLED |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 36-153, Participants must commit to whole session |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
So you’ve got an idea for a startup. What’s next? This workshop will show you how to develop and refine your digital product idea for the real world.
Bring your product or digital product challenge to the workshop. Whether all you’ve got is a vague idea for a product, or you’ve already put together a working prototype – bring it, and we’ll work together on it. Maybe you’re passionate about a specific problem, and you want to see what solutions technology can offer. Or maybe you’re just interested in startups and want to help others with their challenge.
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use THE MEME Design’s “Idea Engine,” a brainstorming tool designd to help you rethink the relationship between products and users. We’ll break off into teams to work on some of the challenges that workshop attendees (that’s you!) have brought. In tackling these problems, we hope to spur your creative juices and illustrate that creative thinking isn’t just the result of spontaneous inspiration; innovation is often the outcome of otherwise straightforward processes.
Once we’ve settled on some truly innovative ideas, we’ll show you how to take them forward. How do you evaluate ideas, so you know where to spend your time and resources? What should you test for? How do you test it?
Apply at http://goo.gl/forms/vmnnk53pDz. Each session limited to 12 participants. Please show up if you are accepted. Be courteous to your peers on the waitlist, and inform us ASAP if you can’t make it.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Felice Ling, workshop@thememedesign.com
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
Developing internally consistent plans for reducing energy subsidies
Carlos de la Torre, Research Fellow, DUSP
| Jan/29 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Prereq: None
A recent study of the IMF published in May 2015 estimated fossil fuel subsidies (including below market prices and untaxed negative indirect impacts) at over 5% of World GDP. Taking as reference the case of fossil fuel subsidies in Malaysia, this activity will (1) review the architecture of one or more energy subsidies (fuel prices, tax incentives in fossil fuels, or both time allowing); (2) develop alternative future architectures based on an envisioned state; (3) select a future architecture more closely aligned with the envisioned state based on a common agreed criteria; and (4) develop an implementation plan for the selected architecture. During this 1.5 hour session, the activity will use lectures and exercises developed in groups to go through the steps outlined above.
This activity has had the support of the Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP) at DUSP and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative in preparing and disseminationg this effort.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Carlos De La Torre Salcedo, 9-338, 617 253-4510, CDLT@MIT.EDU
From Innovation To Commercially Viable Products
Afarin Bellisario, Technology Licensing Officer
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:30AM-03:30PM | Room 5-217 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants
This course will focus on the journey from an innovative concept (or proof of concept) to a commercially viable product, and determining commercial viability. The subjects covered include:
We will use real examples from real world products. Throughout the course we will discuss building of a financial model to determine the viability and test a variety of scenarios. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to work on.
Lunch will be provided.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Afarin Bellisario, 617-258-8329, aobell@mit.edu
Get a Patent on your Invention & Turn it into a Startup!
Christopher Noble
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:30PM-02:00PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
You've invented something really cool. Can you get a patent? Can you create a company around it?
Come and hear Christopher Noble, MIT Technology Licensing Officer. Learn how and when to file a patent (and if you need to); how your startup can spin the invention out from MIT and get that coveted “exclusive license”; how MIT’s Technology Licensing Office can help you; and what investors are looking for when they ask you: “What about your IP?”
To register please email: kmkhalil@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KMKHALIL@MIT.EDU
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Water and Food Sectors: An Introduction to MIT and outside resources for MIT Students and Post-docs
Renee Robins, Executive Director, J-WAFS
| Jan/15 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | E51-145, bring your own lunch, snacks provided |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Thinking of doing a start-up in water, food, or agriculture? Interested in the Water Innovation Prize or the new MIT Food and Agribusiness Prize Competition or the MIT Ideas Global Challenge? Want to hear about resources -- inside the Institute and beyond -- available for students and others that support innovation and entrepreneurship? This 90-minute seminar will feature speakers from the MIT Innovation Initiative, the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, Clean Tech Open, and the New England Water Innovation Network. Speakers will explain what their centers or organizations do and how you can engage with them. Ample time will be provided for Q&A as well as general discussion and networking.
Speakers are:
Georgina Campbell, Executive Director, MIT Legatum Center
Trish Cotter, Entrepreneur in Residence, Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship
Karen Golmer, Executive Director, New England Water Innovation Network (NEWIN)
Katie MacDonald, Executive Director, Cleantech Open Northeast
This introduction to MIT and outside resources is intended aimed at MIT students and post-docs. Recent alumni are also welcome.
This seminar is a brown bag lunch. Light snacks will be provided.
Co-sponsored by J-WAFS, the MIT Innovation Initiative, the MIT Water Club, and the MIT Food and Ag Club.
Sponsor(s): Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Sec Lab, MIT Innovation Initiative
Contact: Renee Robins, E70-1279, 617 324-6726, RROBINS@MIT.EDU
Innovation for Impact Workshop Series
Keely Swan, IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth, Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Are you working to solve a pressing social, health or environmental problem and hope to develop a game-changing innovation?
Have you been working on an exciting innovation and are looking for places where it could create positive change?
If so, join us for this workshop series. Over 3 days students, guest experts and workshop leaders will learn from each other by critically exploring case studies, concepts, and tools for effective innovation design such as problem framing, mapping the social and policy context, pitching ideas, building an effective multi-disciplinary team, and learning reflective practice. Throughout we will explore practical skills, as well as fundamental questions such as: When is an innovation needed? What are potential adverse effects of an innovation on stakeholders, institutions and markets? How can we take a participatory problem-solving approach to the innovation process?
The workshops will build on each other; participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions, but participation for one day is welcome. The workshops are open to the MIT community and will be of particular interest to teams preparing for the IDEAS Global Challenge, the Water Innovation and Food & Ag Innovation Prizes, and others working on social entrepreneurship ventures at D-Lab, DUSP, and other engineering depts. The workshop is also open to non-MIT teammates working on these projects.
Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/h9pn6Zx00f
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Keely Swan, W20-549, 617 715-5474, KCSWAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
We can all agree that there are many problems in the world. How do we know what to focus on? And how do we clearly convey the problem to others? In this session, we will explore tools to help us identify and define problems and consider how that framing affects our understanding of the situation. We will explore the importance of a clear problem statement to innovation design and making a successful pitch. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
An innovation may meet or solve a real need, but the context of a particular cultural, market, legal, funding, and policy environment will all influence whether the innovation takes hold. We will work with tools to help us conceptualize these complex scenarios for our own projects and will learn from past teams about how their projects played out in the real world. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
Whose vision and knowledge inform the innovation process? Will the innovation be developed in a lab by a few people and then rolled out? Who do you need on your team to lend a range of perspectives? Can innovation be a collaborative process with the users and beneficiaries that produces effective ideas while empowering people at the same time? We will explore these questions, relevant tools & strategies. Register.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
(CANCELED) Innovation Tournament 2016
Dr. Kevin Cohen, Assistant Division Head, Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Bob Atkins, Division Head, Lincoln Laboratory, Ken Gregson, Senior Staff, Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Matt Cormick, Assistant Group Leader, Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Hamilton Shephard, Dr. Bob Galeis, Senior Staff, Lincoln Laboratory
| Jan/07 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | NE45 2nd floor |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 01:00PM-05:00PM | NE45 2nd floor |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | NE45 2nd floor |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | NE45 2nd floor |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Do your innovative ideas get the attention they deserve? Would you like to become more innovative? In this interactive innovation tournament, we will collectively generate hundreds of new ideas to present, evaluate, refine, and ultimately transform into system concepts that solve relevant and challenging problems. We will discuss techniques and tools for brainstorming and concept development, including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Blue Team process, and provide mentoring, presentation skills training, and lectures in advanced technology across diverse fields. This is the perfect opportunity to practice innovation and hone your skills for future research, development, and entrepreneurship.
*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Dr. Kevin Cohen, cohen@ll.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
Manager's Medley - IAP Workshops for Managers
Scott Rolph
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Calling all MIT managers. Start the New Year off right: sharpen your managerial knowledge and skills by taking an MIT management workshop. Offered during IAP by MIT Human Resources, the Manager’s Medley includes the following workshops aimed at helping you grow and advance your capabilities as a manager.
Offered in convenient two- or three-hour segments, each in-person workshop provides valuable tools and information and opportunities for reflection and practice in partnership with fellow MIT managers. Set your learning objectives, pick your workshops, and we’ll prepare you to apply what you learn immediately. Sign up for as many as you would like through the MIT Learning Center.
Schedule:
Managing with Situational Leadership
Friday, January 8, 9-11 am
E19-603
Tuesday, January 12, 9 am-12 pm
E19-306
Performance Development: Manager’s Role
Thursday, January 14, 12-2 pm
E19-306
Performance Development: Your Role
Wednesday, January 20, 12-2 pm
E19-306
Thursday, January 21, 9-11 am
E19-603
Using Atlas for Talent Management
Tuesday, January 26, 9-11 am
E19-603
Managing Change and Transition
Thursday, January 28, 9-11 am
E19-306
Online Learning:
Collaborate and Build Relationships
Demonstrating Strategic Agility
Developing Potential of Self and Others
Fostering an Inclusive Community
Giving Presentations with Confidence
Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Scott Rolph, E19-215, 617-253-6065, srolph@mit.edu
| Jan/08 | Fri | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-603 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL31030c
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E19-306 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL32035c
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | E19-306 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL31040c
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-02:00PM | E19-306 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CDT20040c
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-603 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL31330c
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-603 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL30071c
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-306 |
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
| 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
| 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
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
Sales for Start-ups
Kent Summers, MIT VMS Volunteer Mentor
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 100 participants
Prereq: none
The lifeblood of any new business venture is revenue—the result of successfully selling an innovative new offering—usually into a busy marketplace with lots of alternatives. One of the biggest challenges facing any start-up is landing the first few paying customers, and a tremendous amount of thought and energy goes into this all-important mission. Entrepreneurs often fail in their initial sales attempts, missing critical customer opportunities and exhausting precious start-up time and capital. Sales for Start-ups is an intensive workshop designed to provide entrepreneurs with the basic practical tools for sales success — how to target and acquire customers and generate revenue, not theory. In two 2-hour sessions, we will cover basic sales concepts, mechanics, vocabulary and sales do's and don'ts at the block-and-tackle "how-to get a sale" level. The first session focuses on basic sales concepts and the tools and mechanics required for sales focus and efficiency. The second session covers more subtle aspects of successful seller-buyer behaviors (the art of sales), with an emphasis on how to overcome buyer objections, establish ROI, negotiate/close a deal.
Sales for Start-ups is targeted at founders, key personnel & aspiring entrepreneurs and is intended to equip you to be both sales conversant and knowledgeable, so you can make better decisions and incorporate sales-thinking into your day-to-day operations.
Register at: http://goo.gl/forms/qcA0BWN531
Sponsor(s): MIT Venture Mentoring Service
Contact: Roberta McCarthy, W31-306, 617 324-7800, RMCCAR@MIT.EDU
StartIAP 2016
Trish Cotter, Entrepreneur In Residence
Enrollment: By Application
Sign-up by 12/09
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
StartIAP is a 4-week accelerator designed for student teams who want to try the experience of working on a startup full time, building out all aspects of a new business to the extent possible in the space of one month.
During these four weeks, students will be introduced to key concepts and skills that will help them succeed as entrepreneurs in a series of workshops and assignments. They will practice these skills on their own projects, and will report their progress to their cohort in peer check-in sessions. They can sign up for coaching sessions with highly experienced entrepreneurs and mentors to get feedback and suggestions on their venture.
Teams will also have dedicated space in the Trust Center, access to an unlimited supply of ramen noodles and coffee, and will be given access to labs around campus to further develop their products and companies.
At the end of the four-week period, teams will have built a startup from concept to business in four weeks. We will wrap up the program with a TechStars style Demo Day.
See our website for more details. http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/startIAP
Sponsor(s): Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: Trish Cotter, E40-160, 617-253-3453, pcotter@mit.edu
Tax Issues for Employees and Entrepreneurs
Howard Mandelcorn, Joseph Weber
| Jan/06 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | E51-372 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | E51-372 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Joseph Weber, (617) 253-4310, jpweber@mit.edu
The Right Legal Steps when Starting Your Company
Leon Sandler, Executive Director
| Jan/13 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 100 participants
What legal steps do you need to take as you spin your technology out of MIT? How do you divide the equity between founders? When should you incorporate and in what form? What contracts do you need to have in place? How do you ensure the right legal protection as you proceed? What minefields should you avoid?
Come and discuss these topics with a panel of legal experts and MIT entrepreneurs who have spun-out their Deshpande Center projects into companies. Lunch will be served.
To sign up, please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hvlTwLs2GrAqPCd6D3Pp7UEKoOdtVzh5mwGsQ-JyNrA/viewform?usp=send_form
Space is limited to the first 100 registrants.
Sponsor(s): Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Contact: Michelle Grdina, 1-229, 617 324-2764, MGRDINA@MIT.EDU
The Startup Code 2016 - The Fastest Ways to Grow Your Startup into a Successful Thriving Business
Andrew Percey '95, MNG '96, Founder, Prometheus Internet Marketing
| Jan/26 | Tue | 10:00AM-05:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
80% of Startups fail before their second birthday. This is because people build boring "Me Too" businesses and expect the crowds to flock. According to The New York Times, we get exposed to around 5,000 sales and marketing messages every day. We live in a very noisy world full of established businesses and hungry startups all fighting for the same precious customer eyeballs. This is why your business needs to STAND OUT and be different, if you want it to survive and thrive.
In this highly-focused, information-rich one-day marketing conference for startups you will learn how to:
• Differentiate and elevate your startup above the competition
• Make your startup shine through thoughtful branding and PR
• Build a your business through Google Search (SEO & PPC)
• Attract and nurture prospects through inbound marketing
• Use social media to build authority and build a following
View the schedule on the seminar website.
This seminar will be presented by:
• Andrew Percey '95, MNG '96, Google AdWords expert, founder of Prometheus Internet Marketing and advisor to the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS)
• Kenny Goodman, business growth mentor and founder of Find The Edge
• Kevin Hart, Creative Director and partner at HB/EMA Boston
• Nick Salvatoriello, VP of Client Services and partner at Innovative Marketing Resources
*a light lunch will be provided from noon to 1:00 p.m. generously sponsored by Workbar.
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Transforming the work place through serious games
Laure Dousset, Visiting student, Scot Osterweil, Creative director - Education Arcade
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Are you wondering how games will be used in your future workplace? Are you interested in changing the workplace through game design? This class is for you.
Through hands-on activities, you will experience how games will transform the workplace. The class will be divided in 4 sessions. Each session, we will explore games used in companies through a particular theme. Themes include:
Recruitment: How can you be more prepared for new forms of recruitment? How can games and gamelike experiences change the rules of recruitment?
Training: How can serious games, particularly simulations, affect workplace training?
Client Focused Innovation: How can you become more innovative in using games, while keeping the client's needs in mind? How will this new type of game will impact innovation in companies?
Disruptive Innovation: We'll use a creative method to be able to innovate while thinking out of box, creating new products or services with a rubik’s cube.
In every session, we will have a short presentation, an activity on the topic (testing serious games, using methods...) and a debate oriented with questions related to the topic.
The global objectives of those workshops are to make you able to evaluate serious games, have an overview of that topic and be able to evaluate their use in companies.
Sponsor(s): Game Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Laure Dousset, LDOUSSET@MIT.EDU
| Jan/05 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 36-153 |
During this session, we will experiment with a playful assessment tool, and discuss its potential use for recruitment.
We will also explore and evaluate two outstanding recruitment games: America's Army and REVEAL. We'll end the session with a discussion on the advantages and limitations of using serious games for recruitment.
Laure Dousset - Visiting student, Scot Osterweil - Creative director - Education Arcade
| Jan/12 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 36-153 |
Serious games first appeared in the workplace through training games and simulations: why? We'll explore that during this session, exploring different serious games from different fields.
Our objective will be to evaluate those games and be able to develop a critical point of view on them. We'll try at the end to identify the topics in which serious games could be powerful in training, imagining the future of those games
Laure Dousset - Visiting student, Scot Osterweil - Creative director - Education Arcade
| Jan/19 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 36-153 |
During this session, we will experiment with a serious game that will lead us to innovate using technologies: Tech it! We'll use our problem solving skills in this accessible role playing game to meet a consumer need. We will also discuss the strengths of a new type of serious game: innovation games.
Laure Dousset - Visiting student, Scot Osterweil - Creative director - Education Arcade
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 36-153 |
During this session, we will use a creative method of innovation based on a game that we all know: the Rubik's Cube. We will collaboratively develop new business models trying to disrupt the market with this creative way to see innovation. As an interactive way to build business models, we will explore how far we can go with innovation games.
Laure Dousset - Visiting student, Scot Osterweil - Creative director - Education Arcade
Understanding Global Monetary Policy: The Fed, the ECB and global financial markets
Athanasios Orphanides
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:30PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Monetary policy decisions by the Federal Reserve and the ECB have global implications for economic growth and development as well as for global financial markets. This session offers an introductory discussion of monetary policy, drawing on the current economic environment. First, it will review the basic drivers of the monetary policy decisions of the central banks of the world’s two largest economies. Second, it will examine the causes and consequences of the unusual divergence in policy that is currently observed—policy tightening by the Fed and policy easing by the ECB. Third, it will discuss the likely implications of this policy for the U.S., euro area and emerging-market economies and for financial markets.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Athanasios Orphanides, orphanid@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
Workshop: Law, Policy, and the So-Called Sharing Economy
Jonathan Askin, Visiting Professor
| Jan/13 | Wed | 02:30PM-03:30PM | E15-393 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 18 participants
Prereq: none
What are the legal, policy, and societal implications surrounding emerging "sharing economy" ventures. Come with your venture ideas or just your perspectives on the future the sharing economy.
Contact: Jonathan Askin, E15-384C, 917 338-2356, ASKIN@MIT.EDU
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