The course has been organized and coordinated by Joe Hadzima, with support from Joost Paul Bonsen and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: 617-497-4000 x509
Email: jgh@alum.mit.edu

 

Joseph G. Hadzima, Jr. is a Managing Director of Main Street Partners LLC, a venture development and technology commercialization firm. He is a Director of and General Counsel to the MIT Enterprise Forum. He practiced law for 17 years, first at Ropes & Gray in Boston and then at Sullivan & Worcester as director of the High Tech/New Ventures Group, where he was involved in various capacities in the founding of over 100 companies and advised entrepreneurs, high-growth businesses and venture capitalists. He is also a Director of the New England chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Hadzima started teaching at MIT Sloan School of Management in 1984. He was a founding judge of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. With the support of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, he organizes and coordinates the The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans, a popular IAP course. He also co-developed The Manager's Legal Function course, in which he has been lecturing since 1984. He is a frequent speaker for the MIT Enterprise Forum's Satellite Broadcast Series (SBS). In recent SBS presentations he has spoken about company valuation and structuring venture capital deals. Reprints from Hadzima's popular Boston Business Journal column, "Starting Up," are available.

Joseph G. Hadzima Jr. is a Senior Lecturer at Sloan School of Management, where he has lectured on a variety of subjects since 1984. He received a B.Sc. from MIT in 1973, a S.M. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977 and a Juris Doctore law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979. He has been involved with over 120 new ventures over the last 25 years as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, lawyer and board member. As a practicing lawyer for 17 years he was Partner, Founder and Director of the Sullivan & Worcester High Tech/New Ventures Group. He was a Founding Judge of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. He is a Director and General Counsel to the MIT Enterprise Forum and is a Director of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is currently a Managing Director of Main Street Partners LLC, a venture development and technology commercialization firm located in Kendall Square Cambridge.

Technology Strategist Telephone: 617-930-0415
Email: jpbonsen@mit.edu

 

Joost Paul Bonsen is a technology strategist and new venture advisor. Currently pursuing his Masters degree at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Bonsen is investigating the social science of entrepreneurial organizations, how new and existing organizations form or transform, grow or revitalize, and ultimately create value, or fail while trying.  Especially interested in economic and cultural transformations driven by emerging technologies, Bonsen is founding Chairman of the Technology Society, a new organization by and for inventors and technology entrepreneurs.

Formerly an entrant, mentor, judge, and Lead Organizer of MIT's $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, http://50k.mit.edu, Bonsen has witnessed the formation and lifecycle of hundreds of nascent startups, ranging from wild successes through stillborn failures. Prior to MIT Sloan, Bonsen worked in several entrepreneurial organizations as engineer and consultant. He was also the principal researcher in the MIT Founders Project, where he helped identify and quantify the economic impact of MIT-related entrepreneurs, findings ultimately published by BankBoston as MIT: The Impact of Innovation.

Among his many MIT roles, Bonsen was most recently Teaching Assistant for the path-breaking MIT-Harvard joint-class Technology & Competitive Strategy, combining student technologists from over a dozen different MIT departments with technology-savvy business students from MIT Sloan and HBS. Bonsen is fascinated by entrepreneurial challenges faced by developing nations and, most recently, served as TA for Developmental Entrepreneurship, an effort to bring suitable technologies, entrepreneurial ideas, and economic benefit to even the poorest of the global poor http://courses.media.mit.edu/mas967. Bonsen has his Bachelor's in Bio-Electrical Engineering from MIT.

President & CEO, MOK3, Inc.

Email: yonald@alum.mit.edu

Mr. Chery has spent over 10 years involved in high-technology, both as an MIT researcher and as a high-technology entrepreneur. At Mok3, Mr. Chery oversees all business-related functions, assists Dr. Oh with intellectual property development, and develops product and market strategy. Prior to Mok3, he has spent last 6 years as an entrepreneur having started two companies: Virtual Ink and Newbury Networks. Download the Virtual Ink Executive Summary.

Mr. Chery was the founding executive of Newbury Networks, funded by idealab!'s Boston incubator. He served as CTO and Vice-President of Engineering of Newbury Networks, responsible for all product development related activities and intellectual property development. In addition, he identified and developed early key customer accounts.

Mr. Chery founded Virtual Ink in 1997 with his graduate school colleagues and served as a Director and as CTO until March 2001. He conceived the flagship product, mimio, a portable retrofit pen-tracking system that records handwritten notes from a conventional whiteboard to a personal computer. The business was launched while at MIT and won $10,000 in 1997 in the prestigious MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition. To date, Virtual Ink has shipped over 100,000 units of mimio worldwide for over $15 million in revenue.

Mr. Chery currently holds 10 patents in the United States, 4 patents in the United Kingdom, with several more pending in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Chery often speaks about technology strategy, team-building, business plan development, and entrepreneurship and has lectured on such topics at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Mr. Chery is an active member of the Boston chapter of Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO), having recently been a finalist for the 2001 YEO Edison Award. Mr. Chery holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and is a doctoral candidate in Electrical Engineering, all at MIT.