Nuts and bolts of business plans

Lectures: 3 sessions / week for 2 weeks, 3 hours / session

No prerequisites for this course other than having an interest in entrepreneurship.

This Independent Activities Period (IAP) Course 15.S21 was formerly known as 15.975.

The nuts and bolts of preparing a Business Plan and Starting a New Venture Plan was explored in this 25th annual course offering. The course is open to members of the MIT Community and to others interested in entrepreneurship. It is particularly recommended for persons who are interested in starting or are involved in a new business or venture. Because some of the speakers are judges of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, persons who are planning to enter the Competition should find the course particularly useful. In the past approximately 50% of the class has been from the Engineering / Science / Architecture Schools and 50% from the Sloan School of Management.

Part 1: Introduction and Overview of Business Plans

Joe Hadzima

Introduction to Business Plans

Introduction to Virtual Ink

Part 2: Refining and Presenting Your Venture Idea

Stephen Pearse

Part 1: Marketing and Sales

Bob Jones

Part 2: Business Models

Rich Kivel
Serial Healthcare
Industry Entrepreneur

Part 1: Financing Sources Panel

Axel Bichara
Amir Nashat
Julianne Zimmerman

Bootstrapping the early stages

Funding from the 3 F's

Angels

Private placements

Customer financing

Consulting

Venture capital

Bank financing

Part 2: Financial Projections

Charlie Tillett

Part 1: Founder's Journey

Ken Zolot

Gihan
Amarasiriwardena
Nina Dudnik
John Harthorne

Part 2: Legal Issues

Joe Hadzima

Intellectual Property Law-Patents

Copyrights

Trademarks and Tradesecrets

Major hidden tax traps in starting a business

General questions and answers on legal issues for the entrepreneur

Part 1: Negotiation Skills

Mindy Garber
Victoria Bennet

Part 2: Organizational and People Issues

Joost Bonsen

Building an External Team and an Internal Team

Developing and implementing a philosophy for the business

Pitfalls and Plan Execution

Yonald Chery

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