1. 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 * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

2. Overview of Tech Tuesdays “15.MIT” General Goal: Making Most of Your Time @ MIT Today: Extracurriculars @ MIT Last Week: Research @ MIT Upcoming: –Education, MIT 2020 –Strategic & Emerging Technologies –Live Cases on Technology Business –Labs & Tours Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

3. Beyond the Classroom MIT Community Connections & Extracurricular Opportunities –The Larger Community –Worthy Extracurricular Activities Personal Engagement –Strategizing Involvement –Connection-Making Tactics Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

4. 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! Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

5. Weblinks MIT Events –http://events.mit.edu  pay attentionhttp://events.mit.edu MIT Sloan Clubs –http://mitsloan.mit.edu  students  clubshttp://mitsloan.mit.edu MIT Graduate Student and other activities –http://web.mit.edu/campus-life.htmlhttp://web.mit.edu/campus-life.html –http://web.mit.edu/campus-life.html#interesthttp://web.mit.edu/campus-life.html#interest MIT Alum connections –Sloan: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/alum/index.htmlhttp://mitsloan.mit.edu/alum/index.html –MIT: http://web.mit.edu/alumhttp://web.mit.edu/alum Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

6. 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? Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

7. Undergraduate Students Total Undergraduate Enrollment4,300 First-year Undeclared Second-year Special Undergraduate Student 1,055 11 8 Architecture and Planning68 Engineering2,011 Humanities and Social Science142 Management220 Science785 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

8. Graduate Students Total Graduate Enrollment5,672 MasterDoctoralSpecial Architecture and Planning35818411 Engineering1,4081,09650 Humanities and Social Science212904 Management78811914 Science319358 Whitaker College527610 CAES--64 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

9. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

10. MIT-Related Companies MIT: The Impact of Innovation http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/founders/ Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

11. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

12. 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.htmhttp://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/arab/mitaaa/conf erence.htm –E.g. MIT Club of Northern California http://www.mitcnc.org/ Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

13. MIT Alumni Geo Distribution United States and Possessions76,137 New England21,251 Mid-Atlantic20,894 West12,861 Great Lakes5,715 Southwest and South Central5,970 Southeast5,259 Northwest and Great Plains3,662 Alaska and Hawaii333 Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands,U.S. territories192 Asia3,872 Europe3,746 North America (other than U.S.)1,636 South America1,060 Pacific Ocean Islands and Australia428 Africa355 Central America79 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

14. 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 campus- wide –MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition –SEBC: Science Engineering Business Club Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

15. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

16. MIT Matrix Online http://web.media.mit.edu/~davet/notes/e merging-tech-mit.htmlhttp://web.media.mit.edu/~davet/notes/e merging-tech-mit.html Joost Bonsen & David Tames Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

17. MIT Formal Technology Oriented Events MicroPhotonics, LIDS, MTL, etc, etc –http://web.mit.edu/mphotonics/www/sem- series.shtmlhttp://web.mit.edu/mphotonics/www/sem- series.shtml Multiple “Distinguished Lecture” series Keep eye out for special events –Key technologists –Entrepreneurs Best stuff is often quite informal… Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

18. MIT Tech Biz Extracurriculars InfoBioTinyCompl’xDevelop- mental MIT Research LCS/AI, Media, 6 HST, BEH, 7 MTL, 3, 5, 6, 8, 16 SDM, Aero, 6, 15, 14, 13 Digital Nations, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 1. Sloan Research eBiz, Mkting POPI, ??System Dynamics, Tech Strat Econ, Global Entrepreneur ship 2. Sloan Courses ITBT, eBiz Bio- venture ?SysDyn, Strat, OR, Global E-lab, DE 3. Sloan Extracur Media- Tech Health- Tech Tiny Tech OR, SDK12, etc SEID MIT Alum Startups Akamai, DirectHit Amgen, Biogen Gen’tec Surface, eink, Angstr’m HP, Raytheon, Teradyne AfricaOnline, Evergreen Solar Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

19. Key Extracurriculars (IMHO) 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

20. TechLink –Campus-Wide Graduate & Alum Connections MBA EE MatSciChemE Bolstering Informal Cross-Disciplinary Links http://web.mit.edu/techlink/ Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

21. Pioneering Joint Sloan-MIT Lectures Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

22. SEBC Science & Engineering Business Club http://web.mit.edu/sebc/ IAP Technology & Entrepreneurship Forum Speakers Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

23. Professional Schmoozing SEBC, TechLink specialize in Campus- wide Gatherings Elegant but informal environment very conducive to cross-linking Venturefests, JazzLinks, InfiniteLink, Wine & Cheese Socials, Technology Dinner Talks Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

24. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

25. Example $50K Companies Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

26. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

27. More $50K Examples Venture Capitalized –Virtual Ink, PatientKeeper/VIRTMED, Actuality, nanowave, SensAble, InterSense, MolecularWare, Crosskate… Dead –eDental and others Stillborn –CarSoft, SterWave, most actually… Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

28. MIT $50K Structure & Process Fall warm-up & Spring main sequence Formal application mechanism Teambuilding & Educational Activities Feedback from Judges Excellent contacts & PR Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

29. MIT Venture Capital Club http://www.mitvcpi.org/ VC & Principal Investments MIT VC Conference in December VC Database Speaker series Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

30. MediaTechnlogy Club http://www.sloanmediatech.org/ Media, Computing, Communications 400 members Weekly events, speakers… Local & Global TechTreks Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

31. BioStrategy & HealthTech BioStrategy –http://web.mit.edu/biostrategyhttp://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.htmlhttp://web.mit.edu/healthtech/index.html –Plant tours –Luncheon sessions Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

32. 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/ Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

33. SEID http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/s/seid/ Student Entrepreneurs for International Development Developmental Entrepreneurship MicroFinance … http://www.selco-intl.com/ http://www.grameenphone.com http://www.approtec.org/ Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

34. More International Development AID-India, Habitat for Humanity, Amnesty International, … SANGAM, Paksmit, Sri Lankans, Club Latino, Bangladeshis, Africans, … Development by Design workshop Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

35. What High Leverage Informal Activities Suit You? 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… Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

36. My Own Mission: Orchestrating Serendipity Teambuilding Dinners Technology Venture Dinners Formal Courses Informal Schmoozes Introduction Ethos E.g. MIT $50K, Muddy Mondays, TechLink, TinyTech, other activities, and endless events! Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

37. http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/ Case Example: Mike Parduhn Sloan MBA, Interested in Wearable Computers, gets Job in MIT Media Lab group Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

38. Case Example: Sloan as Premier Tech Testbed Project Mercury – Latest wireless technologies; Showcase for MIT Labs –Wireless devices –Integrated services –Location Specific –Woven throughout classes? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/06/08/xircom_review.html http://www.emperorlinux.com/acc_network.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 Matt Rhoden, Paul Strasma  Vidya Kumar Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

39. Aspirations While Here? Possibilities & Combinations are Endless –First world development –Developing nations –Personal Growth Choose areas of relative scarcity, not relative abundance –New technology sectors –Emerging regions –Undefined markets –New research zones –The big unknowns Transformative Student Experience & the “Technology Business” Vision of MIT Sloan Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

40. Transformative Student Experience means… Content in classes & extras Culture & creative ethos Connections at MIT & Beyond Be a T individual Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

41. The MIT Ethos is about Strength Both in Depth & Breadth Depth Breadth Deep Shallow NarrowWide I –. T Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

42. Personal Strategy Lattice Mission & Vision Strategic Tactical Operational Everyday Actions Enduring Over Long Term From Quarterly to Yearly From Weekly to Quarterly Connecting Moment- by-Moment to Weekly And Monthly Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

43. Strategy Lattice Overall Vision Everyday Action Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

44. Tactics: Self Presentation What’s your personal “Elevator Pitch”? Just the Summary Essentials Why are you interesting from their point of view? Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

45. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

46. 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” Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

47. Covey’s Important vs Urgent Importance Urgency Hi Lo Hi Seductive Firefighting Trap Too Easy to Delay These Waste Of Time Why Did You Get To This State? http://www.franklincovey.com/ Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

48. Monsarrat’s Law Wealth & Leverage Age stress school Key Player, Founder 202535304045… Employee, Cog in Machine Bonsen’s Modification Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

49. http://www.interactivepages.com/stuff.html http://graphics.boston.com/images/daily/05/fireworks_640x480.jpg Enjoy the 4 th of July! Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

50. More questions? Track me down;-) Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu 617.930.0415 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

51. Fin Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

52. 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 Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

53. Awareness of Bigger Context: Nature of Social Systems Complex Unpredictable Second Order Effects Important Must be understood to be best influenced Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

54. Endless Opportunity for Disaster and Dysfunction 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! Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

55. Archetypal Deliverable; Aspire for More Engineer – Invent  Patent, Build Scientist – Discover  Journal Article Architect – Plan/Design  Build Humanist – Compose Art  Publish Manager – Plan  Start, Build Businesses Copyright © 2002 Joost Bonsen * All Rights Reserved * Please Don’t Show or Redistribute without Permission! * jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu