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January/IAP Project-Based Workshop

Integrated Business/Legal/Technical Rapid Prototyping for Entrepreneurial New Venture Ideas

MIT Media Lab's Dazza Greenwood (Law.MIT.edu) and MIT Visiting Professor of Law Jonathan Askin (BLIP Clinic) are teaming to offer an innovative project-based course at MIT this January for entrepreneurs and others with new venture ideas to learn and apply integrated business/legal/technical rapid prototyping skills for quick-start development of "back of the napkin" ideas. The course is structured around session for project hacking and review/feedback and session for learning and skill-building focused on key business, legal and technical issues, options and opportunities for project success.

If you would like to learn more, please check back to this page for links to the course description and registration pages. If you would like to participate in this course, please use this form to join the notifications and pre-registration list.

Bitcion and Blockchain

The course content significantly focuses on working with Bitcoin and other Blockchain related technologies as the basis for potential new venture business models, legal structures and technical solutions. Skill building and mentorship opportunities with experts from Consensus Systems for developer and end-user tools to build decentralized applications for blockchain ecosystems, focusing primarily on Ethereum.

The Napkins to Launch course features a special track with an enterprising group of Sloan Fellows during IAP this January to hone and develop their new venture ideas into "hackable" projects for rapid prototyping. The resulting project descriptions, media and related materials will be published on the 2016 Open Innovation Network gallery of small-team, quick-turn around projects for Hackathons, MOOCs, rapid prototyping workshops and online charrettes.

Sloan Fellows Business Track

The Sloan Fellows track is part of the more general IAP "Napkins to Launch" workshop course at the Media Lab in January, 2016 (above). Sloan Fellows and their team members can use this form to provide more information about their projects. The agenda and program for our initial meeting the evening of December 16th will be linked fron this page on or before December 15th. If you are a Sloan Fellow and interested to participate in this, please contact Eduardo Hamel O for more information.