MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club

03/08/2015

Do you want to start your own company? Work at a start-up? Or better yet, work in VC? If so, running the MIT Venture Capital & Innovation Conference is an AMAZING opportunity for you! You get to network with the big dogs and, by the time you're done, you'll know all the Silicon Valley bigwigs.

Applications for leadership are due tomorrow at midnight - Apply here: http://goo.gl/forms/x0K6hNLtzY

Run the best student run VC conference in the country!!!!

02/25/2015

Love lolcats and bad humor?
Think the E&I Club is crap?
Apply for a LEADERSHIP ROLE!!!
No cash money, honey, but eternal fame and glory for running one of the biggest, most impactful clubs at Sloan - http://mit.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3bf32e26ef1c0dcaf27a5346b&id=7daa3d369d&e=09cbff16ec

Lead the club and stop lolcat abuse!

02/19/2015

Still looking for an internship? Working for the man gets you down? Come to the Trust Center room 160v at 12:00 to learn about the Boulder Internship initiative!

02/18/2015

Hi entrepreneurial minded Sloanies! Don't forget to swing by e62-223 at 11:45 today to hear about fundraising pitfalls to avoid from Highland Capital. Also, learn about Summer@highland, a great way to work on your startup this summer and get paid! See you there!

02/17/2015

Entrepreneur Tom Sheppard of Presence Orb, shares the experience of being part of a program to launch and accelerate businesses:
In a couple sentences, what do you do?
Presence Orb is a brick and mortar retail analysis tool. We use Wi-Fi to analyse business performance on a number of key performance metrics. We don’t need to install additional hardware for retailers to understand behaviour in their stores.
How has TrueStart helped you move your business forward?
The introductions to key decision makers have been unmatched to other investors. To have meetings with the CIO and CTO of two massive UK companies would not happen elsewhere. The mentorship of Richard Anson (Entrepreneur in Residence), a ‘been there, done that’ entrepreneur has been immeasurable. He has a truly altruistic view and doesn’t give advice that benefits the investors but instead advice that he truly thinks will benefit the company.
It’s been everything from the ability to run concerns and ideas past someone with tons of experience to getting specific point support on aspects of my business like marketing, projections and accounting. Within the TrueStart team there is a well-rounded collection of skillsets.
The TrueStart team feels like an extension of my own team…without the overhead of having them in-house!


TrueStart, a retail and consumer fund, is looking for ambitious entrepreneurs to apply for their 6-month cohort programme. The Collection offers £25,000- £50,000 worth of investment, outstanding support from industry mentors and partners (River Island, Land Securities, Accenture), an enviable and exclusive network of the who’s who of the retail and consumer world and beautiful workspace in the heart of London’s retail neighbourhood. You have one week left to apply:http://www.truestart.co.uk/thecollection/

Deadline for applications: 22 February

APPLICATIONS DUE 22 FEBRUARY APPLY The Collection Is The Collection right for you? The Collection is aimed at entrepreneurs looking to launch or accelerate their business. If you are a startup (or have a great idea) that is disruptive, and focuses on any part of the retail or consumer sectors, we w…

02/17/2015

Book the date dear E&I Sloanies! On March 4th we'll have a Fireside chat with Arjun Sethi, Co-founder of MessagMe at E51-345. Want more details:

Arjun Sethi built a popular mobile messaging app called MessageMe in 2014 and acquired 2.5 million users in 3 weeks. He raised $15M for his company and later on sold it to Yahoo for $30-40M. He is a well known person in gaming industry, loves hacking and now looks into mobile growth team at Yahoo.
Talk format:
- 20 minute talk from Arjun
- 30 minute fireside chat with Arjun and interviewed by Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief, MIT
Technology Review.
- 10 min for Q and A
Priority to MIT students, however open to entrepreneurship community.
The event is jointly promoted by MIT Technology Review and sponsored by SBC club at CSAIL

RSVP link http://mit.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bf32e26ef1c0dcaf27a5346b&id=79fbc13ae3&e=ad66abead6

Description: Arjun Sethi built a popular mobile messaging app called MessageMe in 2014 and acquired 2.5 million users in 3 weeks. He raised $15M for his company and later sold it to Yahoo for $30-40M. He is a well known person in gaming industry, loves hacking and now looks into mobile growth team a…

11/18/2014

HAY FRENDZ!

MIT / HBS Entrepreneurship mixer tonight at John Harvard's in Harvard Square, 6 to 8 pm! Be there! Win $50 cash by meeting a new HBS bestie!

11/18/2014

Thanks to Brian Chen for the shoutout to the Sloan E&I Club!
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/student-blogs/mba-2016/three-ways-sloan-has-helped-in-my-entrepreneurial-journey/

To MBA or not to MBA? This is a question that many aspiring entrepreneurs contemplate, and there is a very healthy, longstanding debate about the merits of an

11/17/2014

ENTREPRENEURS! Apply for the 17th Annual MIT VC & Innovation Conference Startup Showcase, sponsored by PayPal Startup Blueprint! TWO MORE DAYS: Applications due Nov. 19

Details and the shortest application you've ever seen here: http://www.mitvcconference.com/startup-showcase/

The Startup Showcase is when entrepreneurship and innovation come to life! We are now accepting applications! Don't miss the chance of getting real time feedback from our enthusiastic attendees, including prominent experts from the investment community.

10/18/2014

the awesome and incredibly smart Alex Taussing of Highland Capital Partners came by to talk about how to start a career in tech. Read all about it at http://sloaneiclub.wordpress.com/

10/15/2014

just wrapped the second annual Silicon Valley pitch trek with ten awesome startups and six fabulous organizers-

10/02/2014

If you're in the Bay Area, please come join some E&I'ers on 10/13 for some drinks while we are in town.

You're invited to MIT Sloan E&I Club Silicon Valley Pitch Trek - Click here to RSVP

09/22/2014

Check out our latest blog post on Legal Issues for Start-ups: Opportunities & Pitfalls: http://bit.ly/LegalPitfalls

07/22/2014

Cambridge-based start-up Litographs just launched an awesome Kickstarter campaign...definitely worth a look!

A beautiful collection of (temporary) literary tattoos, and a chance to join the World's Longest Tattoo Chain.

05/07/2014

Don't miss tomorrow's event with DreamIt Ventures, one of the top accelerators in the country. Come to E62-223 @ noon to learn more.

DreamIt @ MIT on 5/8
DreamIt was founded in 2008 by three successful technology entrepreneurs who want to create the same type of opportunities that they were fortunate to have had themselves for the next wave of entrepreneurs. Since kicking off in Philadelphia, DreamIt has expanded to Austin, New York, and Israel; been named the third best accelerator program in the world by Forbes Magazine in 2012; and launched 127 companies with an enterprise value greater than $380M.
5/8 noon @ E62-223 | E&I Club | Non-Pizza Lunch

04/27/2014

Protecting intellectual property can save your start-up time and money! Check out lessons learned from Rachel Rodgers last week at Sloan. http://bit.ly/1hCYPQF

“We all owe a fiduciary duty to the stakeholders of our companies to manage and harvest our intangible assets” – Andrew Sherman, Harvesting Intangible AssetsRachel Rodgers, an intellectual property...

04/23/2014

Don't forget to come by and hear seasoned entrepreneur, VC, and Sloan Alum Stephen Marcus speak tomorrow (4/23) at noon in E62-250. See you there!

Inside look: Raising your first round of venture capital

This candid lunch talk will be led by Stephen Marcus, Sloan '08 and Co-Founder & CEO of Allclasses. Steve has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years, started 7 companies, been a Partner at a venture fund, and raised more than a quarter billion dollars of capital from venture and private equity funds.

You will learn first hand what types of capital are available to you, how to craft your process to get that capital, some traps and pitfalls in those processes, how to read the signals from the venture capital community, and where to get more information.

This talk is for entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs who are thinking about raising venture capital.