IAP workshops will be held throughout January and represent an incredible resource for teams. The course descriptions speak for themselves. Due to their quality these courses select applicants based on merit but 100K semi-finalists will be given priority and will progress immediately to the interview stage after which, if accepted, they will be admitted. These are opportunities not to be missed.
The home page is here. It contains the direct links and appropriate contact points needed enroll but for your convenience a list of the four courses relevant to 100k competitors is provided below.
15.S21 Special Seminar in Management – The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans (was 15.975) with Joseph G. Hadzima, Jr.
Tuesday-Thursday, January 17-19, 24-26, 6-9pm, 34-101
The nuts and bolts of preparing a Business Plan will be explored in this 22nd annual course offering. The course is open to members of the M.I.T. Community and to others interested in entrepreneurship. Recommended for persons who are interested in starting or are involved in a new business. Persons planning to enter the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition should find the course particularly useful. In the past approximately 50% of the class has been from Sloan and 50% from the Science, Engineering and Architecture Schools. This “cross-school” course has resulted in the formation of $100K Competition Teams and a number of successful startups.
15.S24 Special Seminar in Management – From MIT to CEO: Technologists Leading Startup Ventures (was 15.978) with Noubar Afeyan
Tuesday – Thursday, January 17 – 19, 3-6pm, 4-237
Startup ventures form a special class of enterprise that translates innovations into commercial offerings often disrupting large markets.This course will focus on the characteristics, requirements and role of a technologist-CEO in a startup. We will analyze the role from many points of view including as chief strategist, fundraiser, recruiter, motivator, promoter, market developer, sales person, visionary, communicator and paranoid optimist.
15.S51 Special Seminar in Management: Hacking IAP with Bill Aulet, R. Colin Kennedy
Monday – Friday, January 9 – 13, 10am – 6pm, E40-160
Students spend one week hacking entrepreneurial ideas in cross-disciplinary teams. Students will participate in hand on sessions on entrepreneurship, team building, agile product management, sales, and fundraising in this workshop-like course. Actionable steps in business creation, including prototypes, customers, team composition, go-to-market plan/progress, hypotheses that have been tested.
15.S52 Special Seminar in Management: Tech, Art, and Entrepreneurship: How To Make Money And Do What You Love, All The Time, Without Winning The Lottery with Nadeem Mazen, Dan Paluska, Bill Aulet
Tueday -Thusday, Jan 10-12, 17-19, 3-5pm, E51-395
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
We all hear about those who win “The Business Lottery”: VC funding, big acquisitions, prestigious grants, best-sellers, etcetera. Is it healthy for the rest of us to be aiming for these rewards when planning our own business models? What are the alternatives? We will publicize small, local businesses that are on their way to a big impact. Local entrepreneurs will present their powerful case studies and reflect on how they are able to do what they love full-time. The class will examine how emerging technologies enable new business models, spur new business types, and allow for personal fulfillment.
Guest lecturers will provide the guiding business and personal philosophies and reveal the practical and numerical details around their management of people, services, and finances (so often glossed over in business and business education). In addition, each guest lecturer will bring a concrete problem or project from their own business, to challenge participants and gather productive, useful, and creative responses. Class lecturers will periodically facilitate open brainstorming: new business models, new and social media best-practices, imagining sustainability solutions around participants’ own projects, and so forth. Finally, class lecturers will facilitate traditional negotiations, management, and group-work learning games such as the red-green game and others.