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MIT Methods - Producing Exceptional Videos

Submitted by Marcoux, Vanessa on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 4:01pm
Whether you're creating a video for a business plan competition, interview, or your company's website, you want it to be as professional and exceptional as you are. The Martin Trust Center has teamed up with some talented video producers to create a how-to guide for preparing for the video, shooting each segment, and finishing it in post-production. Here's MIT Sloan Communications Coordinator and budding entrepreneur Justin Adelson to take you through part one:
 

Resources for Startups: Design for Entrepreneurs

Submitted by on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 4:08pm

Good design is a crucial element of a good product. Embodying design as a core competency of one's product development process moves beyond looking at design as a final touch to make something "pretty". Focusing on design from the onset of starting a company can help one craft a better product and experience. Whether or not we recognize it, everything we do in a startup is "designed" - from deciding what to call it to selecting a group of beta testers. Day 3 of HackingIAP focused on design for entrepreneurs, bringing in speakers from Continuum, RISD, and Gemvara.

Resources for Startups: Agile Project Management

Submitted by on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 2:46pm
Learning how to successfully manage and participate in teams is one of the more overlooked, but crucial components to building a successful company. HackingIAP was lucky to have Abby Fitchner, Microsoft's startup evangelist and all-around rockstar, share her wisdom on a few different methods of project management. Check out her slides, posts, and videos below to learn about three frameworks of product development - Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.

HackingIAP Day 5: Wrapping Up

Submitted by Snyder, Chris on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 6:12pm
 
 
Collage of Russ Wilcox, Paul Schaut and Brad Feld.
from left to right: Russ Wilcox, Paul Schaut, Brad Feld
 

HackingIAP Day 4: Connect

Submitted by Snyder, Chris on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 11:13pm
Today, HackingIAP was all about connecting -- with the press, with customers, and with the entrepreneurial community.
 
Chase Garabarino (@cgarb) of Streetwise Media (the folks behind BostInno) kicked things off with how startups get traction in the press. He has a unique perspective since his is a media company that is also a startup.
 

HackingIAP Day 3: Design Day

Submitted by on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 2:26am
Today started with a workshop on Design for Entrepreneurs by Rick McMullen (@roderickm); you can find the slides here, and here's a snippit of the video highlights:
 

HackingIAP Day 2: Getting Lean

Submitted by on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 10:57am
Day 1 was great, but Day 2: Getting Lean was even better.
 
Things got started with the morning's guest, Mike Schumann, conducting a workshop on the basics of  Customer Development, and how he used it to quickly build a new market for a publicly traded company.
 

Day 1 of HackingIAP: Getting Started

Submitted by on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 10:50pm
What a day!
 
 
After months of preparation, we kicked of an ambitious initiative here at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship: a one week intensive course in startup fundamentals.
 

Why We're Hacking IAP

Submitted by Snyder, Chris on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 7:51pm
Resources, knowledge, inspiration, community.
 
That's why we're Hacking IAP -- or more specifically, why teams of MIT student entrepreneurs are taking the Martin Trust Center's newest IAP course focused on getting student entrepreneurs to a new level.
 

E-Center TV - October 31, 2011

Submitted by jadelson@mit.edu on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 2:39pm
Bill does his best news-anchor impression for his Halloween E-Center episode. This week we review the upcoming events such as the MIT $100K Elevator Pitch Competition, the "Six Principles" of the MIT E-Center, and why there shouldn't be any competition between entrepreneurship at different cities around the USA.