15.399  Entrepreneurship Lab

Final Poster - Example

If you are looking for an example poster, I posted one on stellar here:

Materials -> "Final Poster - Example"

I believe I printed this at 24"x36" and had it mounted on foam core poster board at kinkos. It came out great.

Announced on 04 December 2010  12:37  a.m. by Tom Rose

Final Class on Wednesday December 8th

Dear E-Labbers,

The format for the final class consists of short “elevator pitch” presentations (five minutes maximum per team) followed by a poster-board session, in which you can move around the class to learn about the outcomes achieved in other projects. Your presentation should consist of no more than FOUR slides. Slide 1 lists your firm’s name and those of your team members. Slides 2 and 3 should be used to summarize the outcome of your project. What were you asked to do? What did you find? What are your main recommendations? We are particularly interested in what you can now tell the firm that it did not know at the start of the project. Assume that we remember what your firm does, given we have heard you present twice already. Slide 4 should be used to communicate the top five lessons you will take away from E-Lab. The lessons can relate to any aspect of the course: content, process, or team dynamics. For example, if you had to overcome adversity in your project, we might all learn from sharing your experiences. Feel free to be creative.

For the poster sessions, the aim is to develop a visual story as to the aims of your project, the analysis you conducted, and the conclusions you draw. At a minimum, you can take a few of the key slides from your final faculty presentations, and blow these up to display on your board. Remember, slides that show graphs, charts, pictures, or frameworks for understanding your project are worth a thousand lines of text. You could also display a picture, screen shot, mock-up or other visual representation of the product, to remind people of the project you are working on. Ultimately, it is up to you to decide exactly what to show, and how to show it.

The format for the evening: From 6.00pm-6.15pm, set up the posters around the class. From 6.15pm-7.00pm, hear the elevator pitch presentations. From 7.00pm to 8.00pm, have the poster session, in which you take turns to walk around and learn from other teams experiences.

Note that final faculty presentations commence Tuesday morning. Each team has 90 minutes, but should assume half that time will be spent responding to questions. REFER TO THE NOTES IN THE SYLLABUS about the format for your final PP "deck" and guidelines on what to put up-front versus in appendices. After you present, I will hand you the course evaluation forms to complete. All presentations (except Teco) are in the E-center main conference room.

Many thanks for all your hard work this semester. I am looking forward to a great set of presentations!

Cheers, Alan.

Announced on 03 December 2010  1:57  p.m. by Alan D MacCormack

Hoffman sales slides posted

Elab Students,

By popular demand, I have retrieved and posted the Jeff Hoffman sales slides on stellar. They are in the materials section.

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Announced on 17 November 2010  3:51  p.m. by Tom Rose

Final Presentation Time Slots

Dear Elabbers, possible slots for the final faculty presentation are as follows:

TUE DEC 7th: 8-9.30; 9.30-11; 11-12.30; 12.30-2; 2-3.30; 3.30-5; 5-6.30
THUR DEC 9th: 2-3.30; 3.30-5; 5-6.30
FRI DEC 10th: 8-9.30; 9.30-11; 11-12.30; 12.30-2; 2-3.30; 3.30-5

Please email Tom with your request, first come, first served. If you cannot make any time offered, please let me know, and we can come to another arrangement (13th and 14th are open). Note that our final in-class session is Wed 8th, when you will deliver a 5min pitch of your final recommendations, and develop a poster describing your results. More details about this class will follow. Many thanks,

Cheers, Alan.

Announced on 17 November 2010  1:40  p.m. by Alan D MacCormack

Team Survey

Elab Students,

Your team performance is an important part of ELab, and we would like to help you improve. Please complete the following 5 minute survey about how your team is performing. The data will help us coach you better. This survey requires 100% participation to be effective, so each of your responses is very important. Thank you.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B3STTLW

Tom Rose
tom.rose@mit.edu
(617) 326-3896

Announced on 11 November 2010  4:40  p.m. by Tom Rose