Transcript Tech Tuesdays Extracurriculars @ MIT “Making the most of your time at MIT” 2 July 2002 Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu 617.930.0415 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved.

Tech Tuesdays
Extracurriculars
@ MIT
“Making the
most of your time at MIT”
2 July 2002
Joost Bonsen
jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu
617.930.0415
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Overview of Tech Tuesdays
“15.MIT”
• General Goal: Making Most of Your Time @ MIT
• Today: Extracurriculars @ MIT
• Last Week: Research @ MIT
• Upcoming:
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Education, MIT 2020
Strategic & Emerging Technologies
Live Cases on Technology Business
Labs & Tours
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Beyond the Classroom
• MIT Community Connections &
Extracurricular Opportunities
– The Larger Community
– Worthy Extracurricular Activities
• Personal Engagement
– Strategizing Involvement
– Connection-Making Tactics
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MIT’s Triad of Activities
• Curricular
– Core
– Electives
• Extracurricular
– Student Clubs & Activities
• SEBC, $50K, Project, TechLink
• Quasicurricular / Research
– Special projects
– Thesis
• N-for-one’s – try to have these compound;
seek Leverage!
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Weblinks
• MIT Events
– http://events.mit.edu  pay attention
• MIT Sloan Clubs
– http://mitsloan.mit.edu  students  clubs
• MIT Graduate Student and other activities
– http://web.mit.edu/campus-life.html
– http://web.mit.edu/campus-life.html#interest
• MIT Alum connections
– Sloan: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/alum/index.html
– MIT: http://web.mit.edu/alum
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MIT Community Demographics
• Get to know as many people while here
as possible, beyond Sloan too
– Potential collaborators
– Potential employees
– Serendipitous possibilities
• Who are they?
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Undergraduate Students
Total Undergraduate Enrollment
4,300
First-year
Undeclared Second-year
Special Undergraduate Student
1,055
11
8
Architecture and Planning
Engineering
68
2,011
Humanities and Social Science
142
Management
220
Science
785
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Graduate Students
Total Graduate Enrollment
5,672
Master
Architecture and Planning
Doctoral
Special
358
184
11
1,408
1,096
50
21
290
4
788
119
14
31
935
8
Whitaker College
5
276
10
CAES
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64
Engineering
Humanities and Social Science
Management
Science
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MIT Alum Connections
• MOT / SF / LFM / SDM angle
• Sloan angle
• MIT angle
• Underappreciated resources!
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/alum/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/alum
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MIT-Related Companies
MIT: The Impact of Innovation
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/founders/
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Alum Co-Founders
• Stata & Lorber @ Analog
– Dormmates
• d’Arbeloff & De Wolfe @ Teradyne
– ROTCmates
• Edgerton, Germeshausen, & Grier @ EG&G
– Professor & Students
• Olsen & Anderson @ DEC
– Labmates @ Lincoln
• Lewin, Seelig, & Leighton @ Akamai
– Students, Friends, & Professor
• Chery, et al @ Virtual Ink
– Students @ Ashdown & Undergrad Classmates
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Alum Links
• Connections to home or desired place
of residence
• Power of alum groups
– E.g. Arab Alum Association Conference
• http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/arab/mitaaa/conf
erence.htm
– E.g. MIT Club of Northern California
• http://www.mitcnc.org/
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MIT Alumni Geo Distribution
United States and Possessions
New England
Mid-Atlantic
West
Great Lakes
Southwest and South Central
Southeast
Northwest and Great Plains
Alaska and Hawaii
Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands,U.S. territories
Asia
Europe
North America (other than U.S.)
South America
Pacific Ocean Islands and Australia
Africa
Central America
76,137
21,251
20,894
12,861
5,715
5,970
5,259
3,662
333
192
3,872
3,746
1,636
1,060
428
355
79
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MIT-wide Student Activities
• Graduate Student Council & Sloan Senate
• Big Regional / Ethnic clubs: Euroclub, Club
Latino, Sangam, African Students
Association, Chinese Students Association
• Sports, Cultural, etc
• …and literally hundreds more
• Professional
– TechLink: Connection grad students campuswide
– MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
– SEBC: Science Engineering Business Club
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5 Strategic MIT Technology Thrusts
1. Information Technologies = Ever more
sophisticated computation & communication,
leveraging mind & media.
2. Biomedical Technologies = Medical engineering,
perfecting the health & life sciences.
3. Tiny Technologies = Investigating and fabricating
ever smaller systems, at scales from micro thru
nano
4. Complex Systems = Large scale, socio-political
& econo-technological systems.
5. Developmental Innovations = Appropriate and
leapfrog technologies for tackling challenges in
developing & emerging regions
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MIT Matrix Online
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~davet/notes/e
merging-tech-mit.html
Richly Interwoven MIT Themes
1. InfoTech
2. BioTech
4. Complex
Systems
3. TinyTech
5. Developmental
Innovations
Joost Bonsen & David Tames
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MIT Formal Technology
Oriented Events
• MicroPhotonics, LIDS, MTL, etc, etc
– http://web.mit.edu/mphotonics/www/semseries.shtml
• Multiple “Distinguished Lecture” series
• Keep eye out for special events
– Key technologists
– Entrepreneurs
• Best stuff is often quite informal…
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MIT Tech Biz Extracurriculars
Info
Bio
Tiny
Compl’x Developmental
MTL, 3,
5, 6, 8,
16
SDM, Aero, Digital
6, 15, 14, 13 Nations, 1, 4,
5, 6, 7, 11
MIT
Research
LCS/AI, HST,
Media, 6 BEH, 7
1. Sloan
Research
eBiz,
Mkting
POPI, ? ?
System
Dynamics,
Tech Strat
Econ, Global
Entrepreneur
ship
2. Sloan
Courses
3. Sloan
Extracur
MIT Alum
Startups
ITBT,
eBiz
Bioventure
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SysDyn,
Strat, OR,
Global E-lab,
DE
MediaTech
HealthTech
Tiny
Tech
OR, SDK12, SEID
etc
Akamai, Amgen, Surface, HP,
AfricaOnline,
DirectHit Biogen eink,
Raytheon,
Evergreen
Angstr’m Teradyne
Solar
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Key Extracurriculars
(IMHO)
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TechLink
Science Engineering Business Club
MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
Venture Capital & Principal Investing Club
Tech Innovation clubs: MediaTech,
HealthTech, BioStrategy, TinyTech, etc.
• Student Entrepreneurs for International
Development
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TechLink
– Campus-Wide Graduate
& Alum Connections
• Bolstering Informal Cross-Disciplinary Links
• http://web.mit.edu/techlink/
EE
MBA
MatSci ChemE
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Pioneering
Joint
Sloan-MIT
Lectures
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SEBC
• Science & Engineering Business Club
• http://web.mit.edu/sebc/
• IAP Technology & Entrepreneurship
Forum
• Speakers
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Professional Schmoozing
• SEBC, TechLink specialize in Campuswide Gatherings
• Elegant but informal environment very
conducive to cross-linking
• Venturefests, JazzLinks, InfiniteLink,
Wine & Cheese Socials, Technology
Dinner Talks
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MIT $50K Entrepreneurship
Competition
• Born 1990 as $10K
• Joint-venture between Engineering and
Business students
• Focus on High Potential Ventures
• 1996 to $50K
• 1,200 proposals by over 2,500 students
• ~80 companies
http://50k.mit.edu
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Example $50K Companies
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Winners & Entrants in $50K
• Public Companies
– Akamai, C-Bridge, NetGenesis
• Acquired
– Lexicus / Motorola, Silicon Spice /
Broadcom, Firefly / Microsoft, WebLine /
Cisco, Direct Hit / AskJeeves, Applied
Impulse / Philips
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More $50K Examples
• Venture Capitalized
– Virtual Ink, PatientKeeper/VIRTMED,
Actuality, nanowave, SensAble,
InterSense, MolecularWare, Crosskate…
• Dead
– eDental and others
• Stillborn
– CarSoft, SterWave, most actually…
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MIT $50K Structure & Process
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Fall warm-up & Spring main sequence
Formal application mechanism
Teambuilding & Educational Activities
Feedback from Judges
Excellent contacts & PR
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MIT Venture Capital Club
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http://www.mitvcpi.org/
VC & Principal Investments
MIT VC Conference in December
VC Database
Speaker series
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MediaTechnlogy Club
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http://www.sloanmediatech.org/
Media, Computing, Communications
400 members
Weekly events, speakers…
Local & Global TechTreks
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BioStrategy &
HealthTech
• BioStrategy
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http://web.mit.edu/biostrategy
Biomedical, Life Sciences & Business
Co-founded last year by Andy Pakula et al
Thursday Night Seminar Series
• HealthTech
– http://web.mit.edu/healthtech/index.html
– Plant tours
– Luncheon sessions
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Tiny Tech Club
• Brand new club forming this summer…
• Micro through Nano in size / length scale
• MEMS, NEMS, PEMS, Molectronics,
Spintronics, Photonics, optoelectronics…
• Business & Technologist Speakers
• Tech Dinner Talks
http://cjmems.seas.ucla.edu/
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SEID
• http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/s/seid/
• Student Entrepreneurs for
International Development
• Developmental Entrepreneurship
• MicroFinance
…
http://www.grameenphone.com
http://www.selco-intl.com/
http://www.approtec.org/
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More International Development
• AID-India, Habitat for Humanity,
Amnesty International, …
• SANGAM, Paksmit, Sri Lankans, Club
Latino, Bangladeshis, Africans, …
• Development by Design workshop
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What High Leverage Informal
Activities Suit You?
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Graduate Orientation
Entrepreneurship Gatherings
Special Interest Socials
Clubs?
…
Or, organize your own! I and others will help.
What could you do that’s most aligned with
Thesis interests? E.g. Federica…
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My Own Mission:
Orchestrating Serendipity
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Teambuilding Dinners
Technology Venture Dinners
Formal Courses
Informal Schmoozes
Introduction Ethos
• E.g. MIT $50K, Muddy Mondays, TechLink,
TinyTech, other activities, and endless
events!
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Case Example: Mike Parduhn
Sloan MBA, Interested in Wearable Computers, gets
Job in MIT Media Lab group
http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/
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Case Example: Sloan as
Premier Tech Testbed
Matt Rhoden, Paul Strasma  Vidya Kumar
• Project Mercury – Latest
wireless technologies; Showcase
for MIT Labs
– Wireless devices
– Integrated services
– Location Specific
– Woven throughout classes?
http://www.emperorlinux.com/acc_network.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/06/08/xircom_review.html
http://www.handspring.com/
http://www.futurelooks.com/features/Lifestyle/Wearable_comps/page1_frame.htm
http://www-5.ibm.com/se/news/archive/images/computers/wearable-pc/wearable-pc-closseup-guy.jpg
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Aspirations While Here?
• Possibilities & Combinations are Endless
– First world development
– Developing nations
– Personal Growth
• Choose areas of relative scarcity, not relative
abundance
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New technology sectors
Emerging regions
Undefined markets
New research zones
The big unknowns
• Transformative Student Experience & the
“Technology Business” Vision of MIT Sloan
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Transformative Student
Experience means…
• Content in classes & extras
• Culture & creative ethos
• Connections at MIT & Beyond
Be a
T
individual
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The MIT Ethos is about Strength
Both in Depth & Breadth
Breadth
Narrow
Wide
Deep
Depth
Shallow
I
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Personal Strategy Lattice
Mission &
Vision
Enduring Over Long Term
Strategic
From Quarterly to Yearly
Tactical
Operational
Everyday
Actions
From Weekly to
Quarterly
Connecting Momentby-Moment to
Weekly And Monthly
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Strategy Lattice
Overall
Vision
Everyday
Action
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Tactics: Self Presentation
• What’s your personal “Elevator Pitch”?
• Just the Summary Essentials
• Why are you interesting from their
point of view?
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Personal Elevator Pitch
• I’m FirstName LastName
• Graduate student at MIT Sloan, the Business
School
• In the MOT, Management of Technology
Program (or SFs, LFMs, SDMs, etc)
• Most recently a LastRole at Previous
Company
• Now very interested in ShortSummary
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Short Summary of Interests
• One paragraph or phrase with keywords
For Example…
• “implications of wireless and mobile devices
on medical services”
• “developmental technologies, that is, how to
dramatically improve people’s lives in LDCs”
• “research lab strategy, or, how to keep a lab
vital and to finance next-generation research”
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Covey’s Important vs Urgent
Urgency
Lo
Hi
Hi
Too Easy
to Delay
These
Why Did
You Get To
This State?
Waste
Of
Time
Seductive
Firefighting
Trap
Importance
Lo
http://www.franklincovey.com/
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Monsarrat’s Law
Bonsen’s
Modification
Key
Player,
Founder
Wealth &
Leverage
Employee,
Cog in
Machine
school
stress
20
25
30 35
Age
40
45…
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Enjoy the 4th of July!
http://graphics.boston.com/images/daily/05/fireworks_640x480.jpg
http://www.interactivepages.com/stuff.html
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More questions? Track me down;-)
Joost Bonsen
jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu
617.930.0415
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Fin
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Personal Advisors
• Like a personal “Board of Directors”
• Formal and/or Informal
• Pick people who offer at least 2 out of 3:
– Wealth
– Wisdom
– Work
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Awareness of Bigger Context:
Nature of Social Systems
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Complex
Unpredictable
Second Order Effects Important
Must be understood to be best
influenced
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Endless Opportunity for
Disaster and Dysfunction
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Lame Goals
Disagreement about Goals
Disagreement about Means
Distraction by Lesser Things
Flaky Execution
There’s a whole Taxonomy of Individual
Irrationality and Social Dysfunctionality!
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Archetypal Deliverable;
Aspire for More
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Engineer – Invent  Patent, Build
Scientist – Discover  Journal Article
Architect – Plan/Design  Build
Humanist – Compose Art  Publish
Manager – Plan  Start, Build Businesses
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